Category Archives: World

MADRID - Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Snchez says the government will declare a two-week state of emergency in a bid to contain the new coronavirus outbreak. Snchez said Friday that Spain will "mobili...

BOSTON - Organizers of the Boston Marathon, the planet's most celebrated footrace, are postponing the event until Sept. 14 because of concerns over the coronavirus pandemic, Boston Mayor Marty Walsh a...

TOKYO - Asian shares plunged Thursday after the World Health Organization declared a coronavirus pandemic and indexes sank on Wall Street. Japan's benchmark Nikkei 225 dived 4.9% to 18,468.99. Austral...

NEW YORK - Stocks are opening sharply higher on Wall Street a day after the worst drop since 1987. The Dow Jones Industrial Average jumped 800 points, or 4% early Friday. That's far less than half of ...

PHILADELPHIA - A Philadelphia police officer was shot and killed early Friday as he served a homicide warrant at a home. Cpl. James O'Connor, 46, was shot around 5:45 a.m. in the city's Frankford sect...

NEW YORK - Harvey Weinstein was sentenced Wednesday to 23 years in prison after breaking his courtroom silence with a rambling plea for mercy in which he professed to be "totally confused" by the #MeT...

TEHRAN, Iran - Iran's senior vice-president and two other Cabinet members have contracted the new coronavirus, a semiofficial news agency reported Wednesday as the death toll in the Islamic Republic f...

ST. PAUL, Minn. - The St. Paul teachers union and Minnesota's second-largest school district reached a tentative contract agreement early Friday, ending a strike that began Tuesday and cancelled class...

BOSTON - After winning guilty verdicts against top Enron executives in one of the most high-profile cases of corporate fraud, the lead prosecutor declared: "No matter how rich and powerful you are, yo...

The coronavirus pandemic has lent a surreal quality to the lives of millions of people around the globe. It has disrupted daily routines, overwhelmed hospitals, shuttered schools and offices and halte...