Category Archives: World

Beyond Meat's shares soared after the plant-based meat company beat Wall Street's expectations in its first earnings report since its IPO in May. The El Segundo, California-based company lost $6.6 mil...

WASHINGTON - U.S. and Mexican officials laboured for a second day Thursday to avert import tariffs that President Donald Trump is threatening to impose as he tries to strong-arm Mexico into stemming t...

WASHINGTON - The Homeland Security Department's internal watchdog says rotting food, mouldy and dilapidated bathrooms and agency practices at immigration detention facilities may violate detainees' ri...

SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Leaders of the Aryan Brotherhood prison gang were charged Thursday with directing killings and drug smuggling from within California's most secure prisons, U.S. prosecutors said. ...

WICHITA, Kan. - The assistant football coach at a Kansas community college told officials a 300-pound defensive lineman who died of heatstroke after practice was "making a stressful moan" when he arri...

LONDON - Making nice at the end, President Donald Trump eased up Tuesday on his frequent criticisms of outgoing British Prime Minister Theresa May over her handling of the tortured Brexit deal, declar...

AUGUSTA, Maine - The Maine Legislature voted Tuesday to legalize assisted suicide, with supporters declaring it in line with the state's tradition of individualism and opponents insisting the practice...

RALEIGH, N.C. - A reality television star says in a court filing that it's unconstitutional for a North Carolina city to ban a huge American flag flying at his recreational vehicle store because of it...

New York City's police commissioner has apologized for the 1969 police raid at the Stonewall Inn that catalyzed the modern LGBT rights movement. Commissioner James O'Neill said Thursday that "the acti...

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. - The Russian protest band Pussy Riot is planning a concert in Alabama to benefit Planned Parenthood after the state passed the nation's toughest anti-abortion law. Al.com reports tha...