LOS ANGELES (AP): The second in a string of powerful storms battered California on Saturday, shutting key highways after water and mud rushed into lanes from bare hillsides in wildfire-burnt areas where thousands of residents were under...
SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador (AP): A former mayor of El Salvador’s capital was making a strong run Sunday to end a quarter century of two-party dominance in the crime-plagued Central American nation. Polls ahead of Sunday’s vote showed...
CARACAS (AP) : Venezuela’s opposition leader called on more members of the military to abandon the country’s socialist government following the defection of a high-ranking general, while President Nicolás Maduro proposed holding...
LONDON (AP) — British Prime Minister Theresa May's Brexit strategy took another blow today when Nissan cancelled plans to make its new SUV in northern England amid continued uncertainty over the country's future relations with the...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Facing clear political peril, President Donald Trump will deliver his second State of the Union address at a moment when his bully pulpit is uncertain and his negotiating skills in question after a monthlong government...
As Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro clings to power, many of the loudest American voices urging on the Trump administration in its campaign to push Maduro out are concentrated in one place: Florida. Florida has a large number of anti-Maduro...
JOHANNESBURG (AP): A helicopter carrying Nigeria’s vice-president crash-landed on its side yesterday but he and the crew were unscathed. “We are safe and sound!” Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo tweeted after the crash in Kabba in...
WASHINGTON (AP): United States President Donald Trump heads into his State of the Union address dogged by bruising midterm losses and sinking poll numbers, wounded by a blistering stand-off with Democrats. But for the stately speech, he plans to...
CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) A Venezuelan air force general defected from the administration of President Nicolas Maduro yesterday and called on his compatriots to participate in protests against the socialist leader’s rule. General Francisco...
BALTIMORE (AP) — Baltimore’s top prosecutor has filed a rarely used legal petition intended to vacate 3,778 convictions for possession of marijuana, arguing an extraordinary legal strategy is necessary to “right an extraordinary...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Immigration lawyers have blasted delays in the U.S. government's handling of applications for citizenship, green cards and other immigration benefits. The American Immigration Lawyers Association said the wait times...
SANTA ANA, Calif. (AP) — Dongyuan Li’s business was called “You Win USA,” and authorities say she coached pregnant Chinese women on how to get into the United States to deliver babies who would automatically enjoy all the...
DETROIT (AP) — More than 250 Michigan communities have banned marijuana businesses just two months after the state became the first in the Midwest to legalise the drug for recreational use. Some cities and townships have enacted temporary...
DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) — More than 5,000 Bangladesh workers who demanded higher wages have been fired by factory owners, and hundreds face police charges in the world’s second-largest garment export industry after China, an activist...
LONDON (AP) — Nearly a third of U.K. firms may shift their operations abroad because of Britain’s pending departure from the European Union, a survey of 1,200 company directors suggested Friday, as the political stalemate over a Brexit...
MILAN (AP): Italy has fallen back into recession, intensifying concerns about the 19-country eurozone economy and a possible flare-up in the debt market jitters that haunted the bloc in recent years. The Italian economy, the...
CARACAS, Venezuela (AP): Venezuelans of every age, class and profession poured into the streets of the capital on Wednesday to demand that President Nicolas Maduro step down and to express their support for the young opposition leader...
HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) — Zimbabwe’s teachers' unions say they will strike for better salaries starting on Tuesday after plans for collective action by all civil servants failed. The strike by some 100,000 teachers presents a fresh...
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AP) — Saudi Arabia’s unprecedented anti-corruption sweep that saw top princes, businessmen, military officers and officials detained at the Ritz-Carlton hotel has concluded after netting the government around $106....
BRUMADINHO, Brazil (AP) — Under a scorching sun, Tereza Ferreira Nascimento on Wednesday dug through the mud with garden tools and her hands in search of her brother Paulo Giovane dos Santos, resigned to the reality that he was most likely...
The Trump Organization, responding to claims that some of its workers were in the US illegally, said on Wednesday that it will use the E-Verify electronic system at all of its properties to check employees’ documentation
BRUSSELS (AP) — European Union leaders offered a united chorus of “No” on Wednesday to Britain’s belated bid to negotiate changes to the Brexit divorce deal, with one official calling on British lawmakers to stop bickering...
MOSCOW (AP) — More than a week into a standoff with the opposition, Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro said on Wednesday that he is willing to negotiate. Violent street demonstrations erupted last week after opposition leader Juan Guaido...
