Category Archives: World

HONG KONG - Clad in gas masks along with their formal white school uniforms, tens of thousands of students in Hong Kong boycotted the first day of classes Monday as part of a citywide strike following...

ODESSA, Texas - The gunman in a West Texas rampage "was on a long spiral of going down" and had been fired from his oil services job the morning he killed seven people, calling 911 both before and aft...

DETROIT - Motown Records founder Berry Gordy Jr. is donating $4 million toward a project to expand a museum housed in the Detroit building where he built his music empire. Motown Museum announced Wedn...

FREEPORT, Bahamas - Bahamians are rescuing victims of Hurricane Dorian with jet skis and a bulldozer as the U.S. Coast Guard, Britain's Royal Navy and a handful of aid groups try to get food and medic...

RALEIGH, N.C. - A North Carolina judicial panel rejected state legislative district maps Tuesday, saying legislators took extreme advantage in drawing voting districts to help elect a maximum number o...

DETROIT - A government report says the driver of a Tesla that slammed into a firetruck near Los Angeles last year was using the car's Autopilot system when a vehicle in front of him suddenly changed l...

NEW YORK - Serena Williams was in pain - "acceptable" pain, her coach called it - after rolling her right ankle during the second set of a U.S. Open victory. That was the bad news. On a day that defen...

NEW YORK - Margaret Atwood's "The Testaments," her highly anticipated sequel to "The Handmaid's Tale," is among six works shortlisted for the Booker Prize for Fiction. Other finalists announced Tuesda...

ROME - Activists from Italy's populist 5-Star Movement voted overwhelmingly in an online ballot Tuesday to approve a deal for a governing coalition with the rival, mainstream Democrats that would thwa...

WASHINGTON - The U.S.-China trade war and slower global growth are weighing on the U.S. economy, with manufacturing activity shrinking in August for the first time in three years. A survey by the Inst...