SAN PEDRO SULA (AP): Hundreds of Honduran migrants, many carrying young children, set out in a caravan for that country’s border with Guatemala yesterday, hoping to reach the United States. Some of those who gathered at the San Pedro Sula bus...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Scientists on Wednesday revealed the first image ever made of a black hole, depicting a fiery orange and black ring of gravity-twisted light swirling around the edge of the abyss. The picture, assembled from data gathered by...
BRUSSELS (AP) — Just two days away from a potentially calamitous no-deal Brexit, European Union leaders opened talks Wednesday to discuss granting the United Kingdom a new delay — possibly of up to a year — to its departure from...
BRUSSELS (AP): With nearly everyone fully resigned to Britain’s departure from the European Union (EU), two questions took centre stage Tuesday: How – and when – to get the United Kingdom politely out the door. EU leaders will confront British...
NEW YORK (AP): New York City declared a public-health emergency on Tuesday over a measles outbreak centred in an ultra-Orthodox Jewish community and ordered mandatory vaccinations in the neighbourhood. Mayor Bill de Blasio announced the unusual...
ALBANY, NY (AP): State lawmakers in New York proposed new rules Tuesday for regulating home-sharing platforms such as Airbnb that would replace regulations that cracked down on short-term rentals in New York City. The legislation introduced in...
LOS ANGELES (AP): Football fan claims in a lawsuit that the California Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) violated his First Amendment rights by rejecting a personalised licence plate he said would celebrate his favourite team but which the DMV...
NEW YORK (AP): A federal judge in New York is ordering the Trump administration to stop denying green card applications for certain young immigrants because of their age. A programme that’s existed since 1990 lets immigrants under 21 who have left...
Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders says he will release 10 years of his tax returns before April 15. Sanders had been promising to release a decade’s worth of tax returns for more than a month. He declined to do so during the 2016 presidential race,...
WASHINGTON (AP): Federal authorities said Tuesday that they have broken up a US$1.2-billion Medicare scam that peddled unneeded orthopaedic braces to hundreds of thousands of seniors via foreign call centres. The Justice Department announced...
Time is money, and a new report shows just how much time and money American's are wasting sitting in their cars and trucks. The total last year was $87 billion, or $1,348 per driver, according to new data analysed by research firm INRIX. Each...
RIO DE JANEIRO (AP): Ten members of Brazil’s military were under arrest yesterday after soldiers fired 80 shots at a car carrying a family, killing a 46-year-man and prompting protests. Evaldo dos Santos Rosa was driving Sunday to a baby shower...
KIGALI (AP): Rwanda’s President Paul Kagame said yesterday that the perpetrators of the 1994 genocide feel repentant for killing some 800,000 people and that that is helping the country to find reconciliation. Rwanda has begun commemorating the...
JOHANNESBURG (AP): A rhinoceros poacher was stomped to death by an elephant and eaten by lions in a South Africa wildlife preserve and rangers found just his skull and trousers, authorities said. The man and two others were hunting illegally at...
LONDON (AP) — In a bid to fight air pollution, London has introduced one of the world’s toughest vehicle emissions standards, placing a tax on older, more polluting cars that drive into the center of the British capital. Starting Monday...
LONDON (AP) — Britain’s government and the main opposition party were clinging to hope Monday of finding a compromise Brexit deal, two days before Prime Minister Theresa May must try to persuade European Union leaders to grant a delay...
LONDON (AP) — The U.K. unveiled plans on Monday to vastly increase government oversight of social media companies, with a first of its kind watchdog that could fine executives or even ban companies if they fail to block content such as...
HAVANA (AP): More than 400 animal lovers peacefully marched more than a mile through Havana on Sunday, shouting slogans and waving signs calling for an end to animal cruelty in Cuba. Short, seemingly simple, the march wrote a small but significant...
WASHINGTON (AP): Democrats will “never” see President Donald Trump’s tax returns, said White House Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney on Sunday as a new front opened in the confrontation between the administration and Congress. Mulvaney accused Democrats...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen resigned today amid the administration's growing frustration and bitterness over the number of Central American families crossing the southern border, two people familiar with...
LONDON (AP) — Cross-party talks to jumpstart plans for Brexit are expected to resume before the U.K.'s Friday deadline for leaving the European Union, and the opposition Labour Party is hopeful the country's political impasse can be...
THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — The prosecutor of the International Criminal Court said Friday that her U.S. visa has been revoked, in what appears to a crackdown on the global tribunal by the Trump administration. In a statement confirming the...
Bill Cosby has agreed to settle lawsuits filed by seven women who say he defamed them when he accused them of lying about sexual misconduct allegations. Filings Friday in federal court in Springfield, Massachusetts, show the two sides have...
LONDON (AP) — British Prime Minister Theresa May on Friday sought to delay Brexit until June 30 to avoid a chaotic withdrawal from the European Union in one week, but a key leader of the bloc suggested an even longer pause in the difficult...
SALT LAKE CITY (AP): The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints on Thursday repealed rules unveiled in 2015 that banned baptisms for children of gay parents and made gay marriage a sin worthy of expulsion. The surprise announcement by the...
