LONDON (AP) — There will be no letup for U.K. lawmakers worn out after Britain’s bruising election campaign. Prime Minister Boris Johnson is set to begin “before Christmas” the push to secure Parliamentary approval for his...
DAVAO, Philippines (AP) — A strong earthquake jolted the southern Philippines today, killing at least one person and causing a three-story building to collapse, setting off a search for people feared to have been trapped inside, officials...
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court said Friday it will hear President Donald Trump’s pleas to keep his tax, bank and financial records private, a major confrontation between the president and Congress that also could affect the 2020...
JERSEY CITY, New Jersey (AP) — The couple who burst into a kosher market in Jersey City with assault weapons appear to have acted alone even though they had expressed interest in a fringe religious group that often disparages whites and...
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump declared Friday’s House committee vote to impeach him "an embarrassment to our country” and refused to back away from the charge that first ensnared him in the scandal. The full US...
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Facebook’s stock dropped almost 3% in regular trading after news reports suggested that the FTC may take antitrust action to prevent Facebook from integrating its disparate messaging apps. The reports said the...
LONDON (AP) — Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s Conservative Party has won a thumping majority of seats in Britain’s Parliament — a decisive outcome to a Brexit-dominated election that should allow Johnson to fulfil his plan to...
MANCHESTER, New Hampshire (AP): Elizabeth Warren says other Democratic presidential hopefuls are too quick to accept Republican calls for unity rather than standing up to the rich and are bending to the whims of their own wealthy donors. The sharp...
PORT-OF-SPAIN (CMC): The Trinidad and Tobago Parliament on Wednesday night approved the Dangerous Drugs Amendment Bill as the first step towards the island decriminalising possession of less than 30 grams of marijuana for recreational and medicinal...
LONDON (AP) — An exit poll in Britain’s election projected Thursday that Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s Conservative Party likely will win a majority of seats in Parliament, an outcome that would allow Johnson to fulfil his plan...
NEW YORK (AP) — Federal regulators are setting up a new three-digit number to reach a suicide prevention hotline in order to make it easier to seek help and reduce the stigma associated with mental health. Once it’s implemented, people...
SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) — Searchers combing Antarctic seas have recovered a military transport plane and human remains belonging to some of the 38 people aboard who vanished en route to the frozen continent, Chilean officials said Thursday. Air...
SOUTH BEND, Indiana(AP) — The Indiana parents of a toddler who fell to her death out of an open cruise ship window in Puerto Rico filed a lawsuit Wednesday against Royal Caribbean Cruises, accusing the company of negligence by...
CHICAGO (AP) — The top prosecutor in Illinois’ largest county on Wednesday filed motions to vacate more than 1,000 low-level marijuana convictions, kicking off the process of clearing tens of thousands of convictions. Cook County State...
LONDON (AP) — Britons who have endured three years of wrangling over their country’s messy divorce from the European Union cast ballots Thursday in an election billed as a way out of the Brexit stalemate and one of the deeply divided...
LOS ANGELES (AP) — A California panel on Wednesday wrestled with the reliability and accuracy of dense research studies as it considers whether to declare marijuana’s potent, high-inducing chemical — THC — a health risk to...
NIAMEY (AP): Suspected Islamic militants ambushed a military post in western Niger and killed at least 70 soldiers, a presidential adviser said late Wednesday, marking the deadliest attack on the West African country’s forces in recent memory. The...
MADRID (AP): Teenage climate activist Greta Thunberg said she was surprised and honoured Wednesday to learn she had been named Time’s youngest Person of the Year, saying the accolade deserved to be shared by others in the global movement she helped...
LONDON (AP: Britain’s election has been like the country’s late-autumn weather: chilly and dull, with blustery outbursts. On the last day of the campaign, political leaders dashed around the UK on Wednesday trying to win over millions of undecided...
The University of Phoenix and its parent company have agreed to pay $50 million in cash and cancel $141 million in student debt to settle allegations of deceptive advertisement brought by the Federal Trade Commission. The deal, announced Tuesday,...
Published:Wednesday | December 11, 2019 | 11:59 AM
BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — Hungary’s right-wing governing parties on Tuesday approved legislation greatly increasing fines and sanctions on lawmakers who disrupt parliamentary activities. The rules, dubbed a “muzzle law” by...
Published:Wednesday | December 11, 2019 | 11:42 AM
LONDON (AP) — British political leaders zigzagged across the country Wednesday on the eve of the country’s national election in a last-ditch push to win over millions of undecided voters who could determine the outcome. Although opinion...
Published:Wednesday | December 11, 2019 | 11:06 AM
NASSAU, Bahamas, CMC – Health Minister Dr Duane Sands says that weeks after the passage of Hurricane Dorian, bodies remain unclaimed in a refrigerated trailer on the island of Abaco. “In the trailer in Abaco, a significant number...
Published:Wednesday | December 11, 2019 | 10:37 AM
NEW YORK (AP) — Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg was named Time’s “person of the year” Wednesday, becoming at age 16 the youngest person to whom the US magazine has given the title. Thunberg emerged as the face of the...
NEW YORK (AP) — Mexico’s former top security chief made an initial court appearance in Dallas on Tuesday afternoon on charges he accepted a fortune in drug-money bribes to let the Sinaloa cartel operate with impunity in Mexico. Genaro...
