Category Archives: World
Zambia President Hakainde Hichilema is declared the winner of a troubled election
LUSAKA, Zambia (AP) - Zambian President Hakainde Hichilema was declared the winner Tuesday of a troubled election that saw vote counting suspended at one point because of violence at polling stations ...
Aug 17, 2026
Trump administration pauses contentious border construction in Texas' Big Bend National Park
WASHINGTON (AP) - The Trump administration says it is temporarily pausing construction of a controversial border construction project in the Big Bend National Park while the head of the agency tasked ...
Aug 17, 2026
Lindsay Clancy's sister, former coworker take the stand for the defense in her murder trial
PLYMOUTH, Mass. (AP) - The defense began calling witnesses Monday in the emotionally charged trial of Lindsay Clancy, the Massachusetts mom who has admitted killing her three young children but blamed...
Aug 17, 2026
Supreme Court again rebuffs Trump’s push to toss out $5 million verdict in E. Jean Carroll case
WASHINGTON (AP) - The Supreme Court on Monday again rebuffed President Donald Trump's push to throw out a jury's $5 million finding that he sexually abused the writer E. Jean Carroll at a New York Cit...
Aug 17, 2026
Trump orders Pentagon to scale back joint exercises with South Korea
WASHINGTON (AP) - President Donald Trump ordered the Pentagon on Sunday to scale back planned joint military exercises with South Korea after the Republican president said it declined to help denuclea...
Aug 16, 2026
Tommy John, namesake for a pioneering elbow surgery that saved his career, dead at 83
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Tommy John, who won 288 games during a 26-year big league career and became the first pitcher to successfully return following groundbreaking elbow surgery that later was named afte...
Aug 16, 2026
Ukraine launches one of its largest aerial attacks of the war, killing at least 6 people in Russia
Ukraine launched hundreds of drones across Russia on Sunday, killing at least six people in one of Kyiv's largest aerial attacks of the war. Kyiv has stepped up its attacks on Russia this year, with l...
Aug 16, 2026
Ukraine launches one of its largest aerial attacks of the war, killing at least 6 people in Russia
Ukraine launched hundreds of drones across Russia Sunday, killing at least six people in one of Kyiv's largest aerial attacks of the war. Russia's Ministry of Defense said that it had destroyed 822 dr...
Aug 16, 2026
A bus crash in Hungary kills 12 people, injures at least 10 others
BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) - A passenger bus traveling on a highway in Hungary early Sunday went off the road and into a ditch where it overturned, killing 12 and injuring others, police said. The bus, wh...
Aug 16, 2026
Indiana authorities say at least 5 people have died as severe weather crosses the state
Indiana authorities said at least five people have died as a result of severe storms and flooding across the state this week, as first responders used boats to rescue more people Saturday from rising ...
Aug 15, 2026