Category Archives: World

WASHINGTON - The White House on Wednesday offered "full support" for Space Force, a day after the president's chief spokesperson provoked a backlash with seemingly dismissive comments about the Trump-...

WASHINGTON - The Biden administration is preparing to notify Congress and others that it will dramatically increase U.S. admissions of refugees. Officials and people familiar with the matter say Biden...

RICHMOND, Va. - The Virginia Senate passed a bill Wednesday that would abolish the death penalty, a measure that if passed into law would mark a major policy change for a state that has historically l...

LOS ANGELES - Reactions from nominees for the the 78th Golden Globe Awards. All spoke to The Associated Press in phone or video interviews: "I think this is the greatest day of my life." - 12-year-old...

LONDON - Drugmaker GlaxoSmithKline said Wednesday it will work with a German biopharmaceutical company to develop new vaccines targeting emerging variants of COVID-19 amid concerns that some mutations...

BERLIN - Germany's economy minister says the country beat its target of cutting greenhouse gas emissions by 40% last year compared to 1990 levels. Peter Altmaier said figures show Germany's emissions ...

WASHINGTON - The Justice Department on Wednesday dropped its discrimination lawsuit against Yale University that had alleged the university was illegally discriminating against Asian American and whit...

The only thing predictable about the Golden Globe nominations are their unpredictability. And the Hollywood Foreign Press Association went overboard with the chaos in this very strange year in which t...

WASHINGTON - The services sector, where most Americans work, operated in January at the highest level in almost two years. Activity climbed to a reading of 58.7% in January on a seasonally adjusted ba...

NEW YORK - Netflix built on its recent dominance at scooping up Golden Globe TV nominations Wednesday, getting 20 nods - nearly three times as many as its closest competitor, HBO. Netflix, which beat ...