World

Roberts: Judges working to promote civics, impartial courts

WASHINGTON - Federal judges are taking up the challenge to educate Americans about how their government works at a time when false information can spread instantaneously on social media, Chief Justice...

Dec 31, 2019

Congressman John Lewis says cancer is his latest battle

ATLANTA - As a civil rights activist at 25, John Lewis was beaten so badly his skull was fractured and the TV images from an Alabama bridge in the 1960s forced a nation's awakening to racial discrimin...

Dec 31, 2019

Lawyers: Robert Durst wrote incriminating 'cadaver' note

LOS ANGELES - Lawyers for New York real estate heir Robert Durst acknowledge that he penned a note tipping off police to the location of the body of a friend he's accused of killing, according to cour...

Dec 31, 2019

Police: Parishioners kill man who fatally shoots 2 at church

WHITE SETTLEMENT, Texas - A man pulled out a shotgun at a Texas church service and fired on worshippers Sunday, killing two people before he was shot to death by congregants who fired back, police sai...

Dec 31, 2019

US strikes hit Iraqi militia blamed in contractor's death

WASHINGTON - The U.S. carried out military strikes in Iraq and Syria targeting an Iranian-backed Iraqi militia blamed for a rocket attack that killed an American contractor, Defence Secretary Mark Esp...

Dec 31, 2019

5 stabbed at Hanukkah celebration in latest attack on Jews

MONSEY, N.Y. - A knife-wielding man stormed into a rabbi's home and stabbed five people as they celebrated Hanukkah in an Orthodox Jewish community north of New York City, an ambush the governor said ...

Dec 31, 2019

Taliban council agrees to cease-fire in Afghanistan

KABUL - The Taliban's ruling council agreed Sunday to a temporary cease-fire in Afghanistan, providing a window in which a peace agreement with the United States can be signed, officials from the insu...

Dec 31, 2019

10! ... 9! ... 8! ... Here comes New Year's in Times Square!

NEW YORK - A Chinese dance performance, punctuated with red and gold pyrotechnics, will usher in a host of stars at Times Square's six-hour New Year's Eve extravaganza on Tuesday night. The throng of ...

Dec 31, 2019

Sour notes for Macron from striking Paris Opera musicians

PARIS - Striking Paris Opera musicians ushered in a new year of protest against President Emmanuel Macron's government by playing extracts from "Carmen" and "Romeo and Juliet" to a square steeped in t...

Dec 31, 2019

US consumer confidence ticked down in December

BALTIMORE - U.S. consumer confidence slipped ever so slightly in December, as expectations fell about economic growth over the next six months. The Conference Board said Tuesday that its consumer conf...

Dec 31, 2019