DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — An Iowa judge agreed Friday to temporarily block the most restrictive abortion law in the United States under an agreement between the state and abortion rights groups. Attorneys for the state and Republican Governor...
WASHINGTON (AP) - President Donald Trump says his meeting with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un is back on for June 12. Trump says after an Oval Office meeting Friday with North Korea’s Kim Yong Chol that he’d be making a mistake not to...
ST. PAUL, Minneapolis (AP) — The Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis announced a $210 million settlement Thursday with 450 victims of clergy sexual abuse as part of its plan for bankruptcy reorganisation, making this the second-...
Remnants of the first named storm of the 2018 Atlantic hurricane season are pushing into Canada, but Alberto’s heavy rains have drenched the Southern Appalachians, claiming lives in raging flash floods, triggering mudslides and washing away...
WASHINGTON (AP) - The European Union says it plans to bring its case against new U.S. tariffs on steel and aluminium to the World Trade Organization on Friday. If that happens, the 28-nation EU would join China and India in triggering the WTO...
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration announced Thursday it will impose tariffs on steel and aluminium imports from Europe, Mexico and Canada after failing to win concessions from the American allies. Europe and Mexico pledged to...
MOSCOW (AP):Russian journalist Arkady Babchenko turned up at a news conference in the Ukrainian capital yesterday, less than 24 hours after police reported he had been shot and killed at his Kiev apartment building. The country's security services...
NASHVILLE, Tennessee (AP):United States President Donald Trump on Tuesday night accused House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi of being an "MS-13 lover" and dismissed a Democratic Senate candidate as a "tool" of Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, a line of...
BEIJING (AP):China's government accused the Trump administration of hurting its credibility by acting erratically on trade and vowed yesterday to fight back if Washington goes ahead with a threatened tariff hike.A foreign ministry spokeswoman...
MANHATTAN (AP) -- Harvey Weinstein has been indicted on rape and criminal sex act charges in New York City. Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr. announced the indictment Wednesday. He says it brings the former movie mogul "another...
NEW YORK (AP) — New guidelines released Wednesday recommend U.S. adults start colon cancer screening earlier, at age 45 instead of 50. The American Cancer Society’s advice puts it out of sync with guidelines from an...
NEW YORK (AP) — Harvey Weinstein declined Wednesday to testify before the New York grand jury that is weighing whether to indict him on rape and other sex charges, with his lawyers saying there wasn’t enough time to prepare and “...
LIEGE (AP):A knife-wielding prison inmate on a 48-hour leave stabbed two police officers yesterday in the Belgian city of Liege, seized their service weapons and shot them and a bystander to death before being mowed down by a group of officers,...
KIEV (AP):A Russian journalist harshly critical of the Kremlin was shot and killed in the Ukrainian capital yesterday, and the national police said they are assuming he was targeted because of his work.Ukrainian police said Arkady Babchenko's wife...
PARIS (AP):President Emmanuel Macron on Monday lauded as a hero a migrant from Mali who scaled an apartment building to save a child dangling from a balcony, and rewarded the young man's bravery with an offer of French citizenship and a job as a...
DOVER, Delaware (AP):Delaware's Supreme Court has rejected an appeal from a felon convicted on gun charges after accepting a Facebook friend request from an undercover police officer.A court panel yesterday said a detective's viewing of 40-year-old...
Florida (AP):Forecasters downgraded Alberto to a still-dangerous depression Monday evening, warning heavy rains and an accompanying flood threat would continue in the aftermath of the storm's landfall in the Florida Panhandle.The Memorial Day strike...
NEW YORK (AP):Harvey Weinstein's lawyer says the woman who has accused him of rape in his criminal case was in a decade-long consensual relationship with the film producer that continued after the alleged attack.Attorney Benjamin Brafman made the...
LANSING, Michigan (AP):Michigan Gov Rick Snyder is expected to sign into law bills inspired by the Larry Nassar scandal, including one approved Tuesday that would give childhood sexual abuse victims more time to sue.The current cut-off to file a...
More than 4,600 people died in Puerto Rico as a result of last year’s Hurricane Maria, according to a new study from researchers. According to The Washington Times, the study supports other claims that the official death toll of 64 was...
LIEGE, Belgium (AP) — A knife-wielding man stabbed two female police officers in the Belgian city of Liege, stole their service weapons and shot them and a bystander dead in an attack Tuesday that prosecutors fear could be terror-related....
Alberto is a still-menacing depression after its Memorial Day landfall on the Gulf Coast, scattering heavy rains around the South and raising risks of flash floods. As the first named storm of the 2018 Atlantic hurricane season, Subtropical Storm...
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — U.S. President Donald Trump confirmed Tuesday that a top North Korean official is headed to New York for talks on an upcoming summit between Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, as diplomatic efforts also...
MIAMI (AP):An upcoming computer video game that would allow players to re-create school shootings by stalking school hallways and racking up kills has been condemned as insensitive and inappropriate by the parents of students who were shot to death...
RONKONKOMA, NewYork(AP):Officials on Long Island are offering a reward for information leading to the person or people responsible for dumping 27 rabbits by a Suffolk County train station.The Suffolk County Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to...
