Published:Saturday | September 21, 2019 | 12:18 AM
BOSTON (AP): The family of slain Boston gangster James ‘Whitey’ Bulger is filing a wrongful-death claim against the federal government following his death in prison last year. The Wall Street Journal reports the family is seeking $200 million in...
NEW YORK (AP) — A wave of climate change protests swept the globe Friday, with hundreds of thousands of young people sending a message to leaders headed for a U.N. summit: The warming world can’t wait for action. Marches, rallies and...
MANILA, Philippines (AP) — Philippine health officials on Friday confirmed a second case of polio in a 5-year-old child a day after declaring the country’s first outbreak in nearly two decades and announced plans for a massive...
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump repeatedly defended himself Friday against an intelligence whistleblower’s potentially explosive complaint, including an allegation of wrongdoing in a reported private conversation Trump had with...
LONDON (AP) — Thomas Cook, one of the world’s oldest and largest travel companies, is facing a race against time to stay afloat and ensure that around 150,000 British holidaymakers travelling abroad can get home. The debt-laden tour...
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration plunged into an extraordinary showdown with Congress over access to a whistleblower’s complaint about reported incidents including a private conversation between President Donald Trump and a...
TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras (AP) — In a ward usually reserved for juvenile burn victims, children lay listlessly under mosquito nets next to worried parents. On a recent day, 9-year-old Carlos Benítez was headed home after enduring several...
PARIS (AP): A Belgian F-16 fighter jet crashed yesterday in western France, damaging a house, setting a field ablaze, and leaving a pilot suspended for two hours from a high-voltage electricity line after his parachute got caught, according to...
DUBAI (AP): Iran’s top diplomat said yesterday that any attack on his country over a drone-and-missile strike on Saudi Arabia’s oil industry will result in “all-out war,” further pushing up tensions across the Persian Gulf. The comments by Foreign...
TORONTO (AP): Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s campaign moved to contain a growing scandal yesterday after a yearbook photo surfaced of him in brownface at a 2001 ‘Arabian Nights’ costume party and two other similar incidents came to light...
NEW YORK (AP) — President Donald Trump asked a federal court Thursday to block an effort by New York prosecutors to obtain his tax returns as part of a criminal investigation, opening another front in the president’s efforts to keep his...
Published:Thursday | September 19, 2019 | 11:58 AM
MIAMI (AP) — Tropical Storm Jerry is now a hurricane, closing in on the outermost Caribbean islands with top sustained winds of 75 miles per hour. Forecasters say Hurricane Jerry could pass just north of the Leeward Islands on Friday, then...
Published:Thursday | September 19, 2019 | 11:58 AM
LONDON (AP) — British Prime Minister Boris Johnson was accused by one of the country’s former leaders of obstructing Parliament by shutting down the legislature for five weeks, as a landmark Brexit case at the U.K. Supreme Court came to...
Published:Thursday | September 19, 2019 | 10:27 AM
MIAMI (AP) — Hurricane Humberto blew off rooftops, toppled trees and knocked out power as it blew past the British Atlantic island of Bermuda. But officials said Thursday that the Category 3 storm caused no reported deaths. “We’...
Published:Thursday | September 19, 2019 | 10:01 AM
TORONTO (AP) — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s campaign moved to contain a growing scandal Thursday after a yearbook photo surfaced of him in brownface at a 2001 “Arabian Nights” costume party and two other similar incidents...
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Iran’s top diplomat said Thursday that any attack on his country over a drone-and-missile strike on Saudi Arabia’s oil industry will result in “all-out war,” further pushing up...
Published:Thursday | September 19, 2019 | 12:25 AM
PAYNESVILLE (AP): A fire at a Quranic school outside Liberia’s capital has killed at least 27 people and many are thought to be children, police said Wednesday. The fire around midnight gutted a dormitory and school building where students slept...
Published:Thursday | September 19, 2019 | 12:25 AM
KINSHASA, Congo (AP): Congo’s army has killed the commander of the Rwandan Hutu militia group FDLR who had been wanted by the International Criminal Court (ICC) for alleged war crimes, a spokesman said Wednesday. Gen Sylvestre Mudacumura was gunned...
Published:Thursday | September 19, 2019 | 12:24 AM
LONDON (AP): The British government was back at the country’s Supreme Court on Wednesday, arguing that Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s decision to suspend Parliament for five weeks just before the country is set to leave the European Union was...
Published:Wednesday | September 18, 2019 | 1:55 PM
STRASBOURG, France (AP) — British Prime Minister Boris Johnson was accused by European Union officials Wednesday of failing to negotiate seriously and branded the “father of lies” by a lawyer in the U.K. Supreme Court, as his plan...
Published:Wednesday | September 18, 2019 | 10:22 AM
LONDON (AP) — The British government was back at the country’s Supreme Court on Wednesday, arguing that Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s decision to suspend Parliament for five weeks just before the country is set to leave the...
Published:Wednesday | September 18, 2019 | 10:14 AM
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AP) — Saudi Arabia alleged Wednesday that Iranian cruise missiles and drones attacked the heart of the kingdom’s oil industry, showing journalists the remains of the weapons while stopping short of directly...
Published:Wednesday | September 18, 2019 | 12:24 AM
NEW YORK (AP): An attorney for Harvey Weinstein said yesterday that her client is not without sin – but he’s also not “a rapist”. Donna Rotunno, speaking on CBS This Morning, said she feels strongly that the evidence will exonerate the movie mogul...
Published:Wednesday | September 18, 2019 | 12:23 AM
LONDON (AP): Britain’s Supreme Court began a hearing yesterday to decide whether Prime Minister Boris Johnson broke the law when he suspended Parliament just weeks before the United Kingdom is due to leave the European Union, in a case that pits...
Published:Wednesday | September 18, 2019 | 12:06 AM
SEOUL (AP): South Korea is culling thousands of pigs after confirming African swine fever at a farm near its border with North Korea, which had an outbreak in May. Kim Hyun-soo, South Korea’s agricultural minister, said the country’s first case of...
