NEW YORK (AP) - Burt Reynolds, whose credits included acclaimed films such as "Deliverance" and commercial hits like "Smokey and the Bandit," has died. The handsome film and television star died at age 82, according to his...
SAPPORO, Japan (AP) — A powerful earthquake Thursday on Japan’s northernmost main island of Hokkaido triggered dozens of landslides that crushed houses under torrents of dirt, rocks, and timber, prompting frantic efforts to unearth any...
Published:Wednesday | September 5, 2018 | 12:00 AM
NEW YORK (AP):A plane was quarantined at New York's Kennedy Airport amid reports of numerous ill passengers aboard a flight from Dubai.There were conflicting reports about how many people were sick aboard the Emirates flight, which landed around 9:...
Published:Wednesday | September 5, 2018 | 12:00 AM
THE HAGUE (AP):Two Americans injured in an Amsterdam knife attack that prosecutors say had a "terrorist motive" thanked Dutch police and medical staff Wednesday for their assistance.Police and prosecutors say the two 38-year-old American men were...
Published:Wednesday | September 5, 2018 | 12:00 AM
LONDON (AP):Britain deepened its diplomatic feud with Moscow on Wednesday, charging two men it says are Russian military intelligence officers with the nerve-agent poisoning of Sergei Skripal, a double agent who betrayed the service by spying for...
DAUPHIN ISLAND, Alabama (AP) — Tropical Storm Gordon never became a hurricane but it was deadly all the same, killing a child by blowing a tree onto a mobile home as it made landfall. The storm later weakened into a depression on Wednesday...
WASHINGTON (AP):Quarreling and confusion marked the Senate hearing Tuesday for Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, with politically charged arguments about White House documents and process getting as much attention as the role the conservative...
TOKYO (AP) :A powerful typhoon slammed into western Japan on Tuesday, inundating the region's main international airport and blowing a tanker into a bridge, disrupting land and air travel and leaving thousands stranded. At least eight people died...
RIO DE JANEIRO (AP):Firefighters found bone fragments from a collection in the still-smouldering National Museum, an official said Tuesday, raising hopes that a famed skull might somehow have survived a massive blaze that turned historic and...
LONDON (AP) — One of Britain’s biggest trade unions on Tuesday joined calls for a new public vote on leaving the European Union, saying voters were misled during the 2016 referendum campaign. The GMB union, which has more than 600,000...
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Louisiana’s top banking regulator has joined colleagues in a dozen other states asking Congress to clear the way for banks to do business with the marijuana industry. The Advocate reports that John...
JERUSALEM (AP) — Monica Lewinsky said Tuesday that she stormed offstage at a Jerusalem speaking event because of an interviewer’s “off limits” question about former President Bill Clinton. The former White House intern...
TOKYO (AP) — A powerful typhoon slammed into western Japan on Tuesday, causing heavy rain to flood the region’s main international airport and strong winds to blow a tanker into a bridge, disrupting land and air travel and leaving...
LONDON (AP):British Prime Minister Theresa May's brief summer holiday from Brexit battles came to a noisy end Monday, as she faced attack from both sides of her divided Conservative Party.Arch-rival Boris Johnson inflamed speculation that he aims to...
WASHINGTON (AP):President Donald Trump started his Labour Day with an attack on a top union leader, lashing out after criticism from AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka.Trump tweeted Monday that Trumka "represented his union poorly on television this...
RIO DE JANEIRO (AP):Smoke rose on Monday from the burned-out hulk of Brazil's National Museum, as recriminations flew over who was responsible for the loss of at least part of Latin America's largest archive of historical artefacts, objects and...
ANNAPOLIS, Maryland (AP):Senator John McCain's final journey ended on a grassy hill at the US Naval Academy within view of the Severn River and earshot of midshipmen, present and future, and alongside a lifelong friend.A horse-drawn caisson carrying...
CHEMNITZ (AP:)Germany's government on Monday urged those aggrieved by the suspected killing of a man by migrants in Chemnitz to distance themselves from far-right extremists who have participated in violent, xenophobic protest marches in the eastern...
YANGON (AP) :A Myanmar court sentenced two Reuters journalists to seven years in prison Monday on charges of illegal possession of official documents, a ruling met with international condemnation that will add to outrage over the military's human...
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump escalated his attacks on Attorney General Jeff Sessions on Monday, suggesting the Department of Justice put Republicans in midterm jeopardy with recent indictments of two GOP congressmen. In his latest...
MIAMI BEACH, Florida. (AP) — Tropical Storm Gordon lashed South Florida with heavy rains and high winds on Monday, forcing holiday beachgoers to drier ground. Weather forecasters said the storm could strengthen to near-hurricane force by the...
Weather forecasters have issued storm warnings for portions of South Florida and the Florida Keys. The National Hurricane Center in Miami said Monday that Tropical Storm Gordon is likely to batter the region with heavy rains. A Storm Surge Watch is...
MOUNT CHILBO (AP):Tanned and wearing a swimsuit, So Myong Il walks to the barbecue pit and throws on some clams.He obviously loves the beach he's on as well as the rugged, emerald Chilbo mountains that rise abruptly behind it. He loves them enough...
ANNAPOLIS, Md (AP):John McCain's final journey from his Arizona ranch is ending on a grassy hill at the US Naval Academy within view of the Severn River and earshot of midshipmen present and future and alongside a lifelong friend.A private memorial...
BENI (AP):Leoni Kahumbu remembers the night her 15-year-old daughter, Pascaline, first showed signs of Ebola. She found her fainted on the bathroom floor, blood everywhere."She did not even have the strength to get up. ... I called an ambulance,"...
