Category Archives: World

JACKSON, Miss. - The Mississippi State Penitentiary at Parchman is a violent, rat-infested place where inmates live in "abhorrent conditions" and their medical needs are routinely ignored, attorneys s...

WASHINGTON - Sixty-five years after 14-year-old Emmett Till was lynched in Mississippi, Congress has approved legislation designating lynching as a hate crime under federal law. The bill, introduced b...

Maria Sharapova was a transcendent star in tennis from the time she was a teenager, someone whose grit and groundstrokes earned her a career Grand Slam and whose off-court success included millions of...

Delta Air Lines said Wednesday it will reduce flights to South Korea as concern rises about the spread of the new virus beyond China. Delta said it will suspend flights between Seoul and Minneapolis a...

FRANKFURT - The widening coronavirus outbreak threatens to seriously disrupt the global economy, just as it was steadying itself against headwinds from the U.S.-China trade dispute. Amid concerns that...

DALLAS - The "Leaning Tower of Dallas," a social media sensation born when a part of a building survived implosion, endured hundreds of blows from a wrecking ball Monday. Dozens of people gathered nor...

LOS ANGELES - Kobe Bryant's widow sued the owner and operator of the helicopter that crashed in fog and killed the former Los Angeles Lakers star and their 13-year-old daughter last month as she publi...

MADRID - More than 100 guests could be released in coming hours from a 4-star resort in Spain's Canary Islands that's been under lock-down over fears of a further spread of the new coronavirus. Author...

NEW YORK - The Latest on a verdict in the rape and sexual assault trial of Harvey Weinstein (all times local): 5:40 p.m. Actress Annabella Sciorra, who accused Harvey Weinstein of raping her in the 19...

MADRID - The Spanish government has cancelled the participation of tenor Plcido Domingo in Madrid's La Zarzuela light opera theatre in May in light of the latest developments in the sexual misconduct ...