Category Archives: World

NEW YORK (AP) - That Ellen Burstyn plays a woman who recoils at the very mention of a retirement community in the upcoming film "Queen Bees" is extremely appropriate. Rarely has an actor been as good ...

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) - Singer Shemekia Copeland and guitarist Christone "Kingfish" Ingram are among this year's top winners at the Blues Music Awards. Veteran musicians Charlie Musselwhite and Elvin Bi...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) - Outdoing his fellow billionaires in daredevilry, Jeff Bezos will blast into space next month when his Blue Origin company makes its first flight with a crew. The 57-year-ol...

NEW YORK (AP) - A. Stella Oloye, a Washington, D.C-based writer working on an Afrofuturism novel, was at a low point this spring when she learned of an online challenge she likens to a "gift from God"...

PARIS (AP) - France's anti-competition watchdog decided Monday to fine Google 220 million euros ($268 million) for abusing its "dominant position" in the online advertising business, an unprecedented ...

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) - A South Korean court on Monday rejected a claim by dozens of wartime Korean factory workers and their relatives who sought compensation from 16 Japanese companies for their s...

MULTAN, Pakistan (AP) - Two express trains collided in southern Pakistan early Monday, killing at least 30 passengers, authorities said, as rescuers and villagers worked to pull injured people and mor...

MEXICO CITY (AP) - President Andrs Manuel Lpez Obrador's party and allies appear poised to maintain their majority in Mexico's lower chamber of the congress, according to initial results. Only 41% of ...

Clarence Williams III, who played the cool undercover cop Linc Hayes on the counterculture series "The Mod Squad" and Prince's father in "Purple Rain," has died. He was 81. Williams died Friday at his...

NEW YORK (AP) - First lady Jill Biden and Dr. Anthony Fauci toured a COVID-19 vaccination site at a historic Harlem church on Sunday. Biden, Fauci and U.S. Sen Kirsten Gillibrand, a New York Democrat,...