Category Archives: World

HARVEY, N.D. - In a story Nov. 10 about a North Dakota woman's hopes of recovering money lost in a Jamaican lottery scam, The Associated Press reported erroneously that University of Utah law professo...

MADRID - The Spanish government said Thursday that Catalan poet Joan Margarit has won the 2019 Cervantes Prize, the Spanish-speaking world's highest literary honour. Margarit, who is also an architect...

WASHINGTON - A second U.S. embassy staffer in Kyiv overheard a key cellphone call between President Donald Trump and his ambassador to the European Union discussing the need for Ukrainian officials to...

SANTA CLARITA, Calif. - At least six people were injured during a shooting at a Southern California high school Thursday morning, authorities said. The Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department said on ...

JACKSON, Miss. - Mississippi Democrat Mike Espy announced Tuesday that he's running again for U.S. Senate against Republican incumbent Cindy Hyde-Smith, setting up a 2020 rematch of a race that churne...

WASHINGTON - Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell is asking Congress to tackle the growing budget deficit. Powell's remarks before the House Budget Committee Thursday came a day after he told Congre...

THE HAGUE, Netherlands - International Criminal Court judges on Thursday approved a request from prosecutors to open an investigation into crimes committed against Myanmar's Rohingya Muslim minority. ...

WASHINGTON - Sharply at odds with liberal justices, the Supreme Court's conservative majority seemed ready Tuesday to allow the Trump administration to abolish protections that permit 660,000 immigran...

VATICAN CITY - Pope Francis is demanding that Facebook, Apple, Google and other tech companies urgently take measures to remove child porn from the web and to prevent children from accessing pornograp...

ANKARA, Turkey - A U.S. national and suspected Islamic State group member, who has spent three days in a no man's land between Turkey and Greece after Ankara tried to deport him, will be repatriated t...