Category Archives: World

WASHINGTON - Tom Vilsack, President Joe Biden's nominee for secretary of agriculture, pledged Tuesday to focus on climate change initiatives and work to address racial inequities in agricultural assis...

NEW YORK - Now, even the pros on Wall Street are asking if the stock market has shot too high. U.S. stocks have been on a nearly nonstop rip higher since March, up roughly 70% to record heights and ca...

MUSKOGEE, Okla. - Six people, including five young children, were shot to death early Tuesday at a home in Oklahoma, and a 25-year-old man suspected in the killings was taken into custody, police said...

WASHINGTON - The Senate confirmed Alejandro Mayorkas on Tuesday as President Joe Biden's homeland security secretary, the first Latino to fill a post that will have a central role in the government's ...

ROME - Former Premier Matteo Renzi gave a thumbs-down Tuesday to the fragile prospects for reviving Italy's collapsed government through a revamped political coalition after days of frantic negotiatio...

The military detention of civilian leaders in Myanmar was a coup, State Department officials said Tuesday, setting the stage for sanctions and other measures targeting what they said was "the very sma...

WASHINGTON - The Biden administration will begin providing COVID-19 vaccines to U.S. pharmacies, part of its plan to ramp up vaccinations as new and potentially more serious virus strains are starting...

LONDON - Capt. Tom Moore, the World War II veteran who walked into the hearts of a nation in lockdown as he shuffled up and down his garden to raise money for healthcare workers has died after testing...

ATLANTA - Silento, the Atlanta rapper known for his hit song "Watch Me (Whip/Nae Nae)," was arrested Monday and charged with murder in the shooting death of his 34-year-old cousin, authorities said. D...

NEW YORK - The White House speechwriter who helped President Barack Obama work on his response to the Charleston church massacre in June 2015 has a book deal. Cody Keenan's memoir is set around the ti...