LONDON (AP) — Codebreaker and computing pioneer Alan Turing has been chosen as the face of Britain’s new 50 pound note, the Bank of England announced Monday. Governor Mark Carney said Turing, who did ground-breaking work on computers...
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration on Monday moved to end asylum protections for most Central American migrants in a major escalation of the president’s battle to tamp down the number of people crossing the U.S.-Mexico border....
Police in Hong Kong fought with protesters yesterday as they broke up a demonstration by thousands of people demanding the resignation of the semi-autonomous Chinese territory’s chief executive and an investigation into complaints of police...
President Donald Trump on Sunday assailed a group of Democratic congresswomen of colour as foreign-born troublemakers who should go back to the “broken and crime-infested places from which they came,” ignoring the fact that the women are American...
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump today assailed a group of Democratic congresswomen of colour as foreign-born troublemakers who should go back to the "broken and crime infested places from which they came," ignoring the fact...
NEW YORK (AP) — A power outage struck the heart of Manhattan on the anniversary of a 1977 blackout— stranding passengers on subways, gridlocking drivers that had to navigate the streets without traffic lights and bringing the curtain...
NEW YORK (AP) — New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio says he's getting reports that a nationwide crackdown on immigrants facing deportation is already under way in his city. The sweeps were expected to start today, but de Blasio tweeted...
ST JOHN’S, Antigua, CMC – A High Court judge has sentenced a St Vincent and the Grenadines-born policeman to 16 years in prison after he was found guilty of having sex with his 11-year-old child in 2017. Justice Iain Morley issued an...
WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. Customs and Border Protection is clarifying that airline passengers aren’t required to submit to identification checks when getting off planes if there’s no law enforcement-related reason. The new policy...
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has voted to approve a fine of about $5 billion for Facebook over privacy violations, the Wall Street Journal reported Friday. The report cited an unnamed person familiar with...
EAST ST. LOUIS, Ill. (AP) — A southern Illinois man who admitted using blackmail to obtain nude pictures of about 100 girls and women has been sentenced to 35 years in prison. Joshua P. Breckel of Mascoutah was accused in U.S. District Court...
LONDON (AP) — Outgoing British Prime Minister Theresa May has levelled a thinly disguised swipe at Conservative Party front-runner Boris Johnson as she underscored the necessity of character in taking on the country’s top post. May told...
CHICAGO (AP) — Singer R. Kelly, already facing sexual abuse charges brought by Illinois prosecutors, was arrested in Chicago on a sweeping federal indictment that accuses him and members of his entourage of recruiting women and girls to...
MIAMI (AP) — A Jamaican man has been sentenced to more than two decades in prison in the United States for running a human smuggling operation. Court records show 44-year-old Michael Stapleton was extradited to the U.S. last year and...
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump abandoned his controversial bid to inject a citizenship question into next year’s census Thursday, instead directing federal agencies to try to compile the information using existing databases....
WASHINGTON (AP): The abrupt resignation of Britain’s ambassador to the United States (US) over leaked cables critical of the Trump administration may have jolted official Washington, but it’s unlikely to have a lasting impact on the US-British...
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP): Israeli troops shot and killed a Palestinian militant in the northern Gaza Strip yesterday in what the military later described as a mistake. It was the first fatality along the volatile border since an informal...
LONDON (AP): Virgin Group founder Richard Branson has warned that the pound’s value would fall to that of the dollar if Britain leaves the European Union (EU) without a deal – a stark prediction that will fuel worries about the economic pressures...
A teen boy is in custody following an alleged robbery along Studio One Boulevard in St Andrew this morning. Another unidentified man is dead and a third is on the run. The police say the unidentified man is of dark complexion, stout build and is...
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A hurricane warning has been issued for parts of the Louisiana coast ahead of Tropical Storm Barry’s arrival. The U.S. National Hurricane Center issued the warning Thursday afternoon for the Louisiana coast from...
WASHINGTON (AP) — A nationwide immigration enforcement operation targeting people who are in the United States illegally is expected to begin this weekend after it was postponed last month by President Donald Trump, according to two...
LONDON (AP) — London police have arrested a man who climbed the front gates of Buckingham Palace while Queen Elizabeth II was in residence. The Metropolitan Police Service said the 22-year-old man was arrested on suspicion of trespassing...
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump is expected to announce new executive action Thursday to try to force the inclusion of a citizenship question on the 2020 census, even after the Supreme Court temporarily blocked the effort. Trump...
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Tropical Storm Barry formed off the coast of Louisiana on Thursday and threatened to blow ashore as a hurricane with drenching rains that could test the flood-control improvements made in New Orleans since Hurricane Katrina...
DALLAS (AP) — A Texas man who had been missing for months was eaten, bones and all, by his pack of dogs, sheriff’s deputies said. Medical examiners said that DNA testing determined that pieces of bone recovered from the dogs...
