JERUSALEM (AP) — The Latest on the fallout from the U.S. decision to declare Jerusalem Israel’s capital (all times local): 3:10 p.m. The Vatican says Pope Francis is praying so that “leaders of nations” commit themselves to...
POST FALLS, Idaho (AP):A northern Idaho man who had sex with two minor girls after meeting them online has been sentenced to 30 years in prison.Twenty-seven-year-old Tyler John Kelley of Post Falls received the sentence last Thursday in 1st District...
NEW YORK (AP):Just over $40 million in compensation has been paid to 189 people who identified themselves as victims of clergy sex abuse, the Archdiocese of New York said in a report released last Thursday.The archdiocese noted that the Independent...
NAIROBI (AP):Kenya's president is ruling out dialogue with the opposition leader, who boycotted the recent election and plans a mock "inauguration" this week.President Uhuru Kenyatta said yesterday the time for politics is over and the country...
United States President Donald Trump yesterday paid tribute to Mississippi's role in the civil rights movement at the opening of two new museums in Jackson, the capital.Some black leaders including civil rights leader and Georgia congressman John...
SALT LAKE CITY (AP): An entrepreneurial student at Brigham Young University is generating buzz and earning accolades for his speciality organic fertiliser targeted for marijuana growers. The Salt Lake Tribune reports 22-year-old Joseph Walker...
ZAGREB, Croatia (AP): Croatia's state television says a former general who died after taking what he said was poison at a UN war crimes court has been cremated. The report said Saturday that a private ceremony was held Thursday for...
KINSHASA, Congo (AP): Rebels attacked a United Nations (UN) peacekeeping base in eastern Congo, killing at least 14 peacekeepers and wounding 53 others in the deadliest single assault on a UN mission in recent history, officials said Friday....
AZTEC, New Mexico (AP):A shooting at a New Mexico high school left two students and the suspect dead yesterday, authorities said as schools throughout the small town shut down for the day.Police did not release any details about the shooter but...
CHARLESTON, South Carolina (AP):One by one, relatives of the late Walter Scott urged a judge to mete out a significant punishment for Michael Slager, the white former police officer who fatally shot...
HONOLULU, Hawaii (AP):Survivors gathered yesterday at the site of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor to remember fellow servicemen killed in the early morning raid 76 years ago, paying homage...
GRAND RAPIDS, Michigan (AP): A former elite sports doctor whose sexual assault cases have rocked Michigan State University and the group that trains US Olympic gymnasts was sentenced Thursday to 60 years in federal prison for possessing...
JOHANNESBURG (AP):The World Food Program (WFP) says 500,000 hungry people are now on half-rations in Congo's troubled Kasai region because money is running low for the world's largest...
KAMPALA (AP):Uganda's president is signalling support for legislation that seeks to extend his long rule by removing a presidential age limit from the constitution.Speaking to a committee of lawmakers...
BRIDGEPORT, Connecticut (AP):A Connecticut woman won't serve any more time behind bars for her involvement in the sex trafficking of a teenager who was tattooed with a bar code to show that...
MOSCOW (AP):Russian President Vladimir Putin said yesterday he would seek re-election next year in a race he is poised to win easily, putting him on track to become the nation's longest-...
WASHINGTON (AP):Defying dire, worldwide warnings, President Donald Trump yesterday broke with decades of US and international policy and formally recognised Jerusalem as Israel's capital.Despite urgent appeals from Arab and European leaders and the...
PHILADELPHIA (AP):Police have charged three teen boys with the fatal beating death of a 57-year-old homeless man in Philadelphia.The teens were taken into custody Sunday and charges were...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (AP):The first-ever pizza party in space is getting sky-high reviews. Astronauts at the International Space Station posted pictures and a video over the weekend of their small, made-from-scratch pizza pies. The fixings flew...
KUWAIT CITY (AP) :Qatar's ruling emir will attend a meeting of the Gulf Cooperation Council (gcc) this week in Kuwait, his government said on Monday, a summit coming amid a boycott of the energy-rich...
Residents of Honduras' capital were bracing for more demonstrations after a night of pot-banging protests over the long-delayed vote count in last week's presidential elections.The sound of bottle-...
LOS ANGELES (AP):Police in London, Los Angeles, and New York are working to untangle an ever-growing mass of sexual assault and harassment complaints against powerful men, creating challenges...
WASHINGTON (AP): President Donald Trump has not yet decided whether to recognise Jerusalem as Israel's capital or whether to proceed immediately in moving the US Embassy from Tel Aviv to the holy city. That's according to his son-in-law and senior adviser, Jared...
The final death toll in October’s massive truck bombing in Somalia’s capital is 512 people, according to the committee tasked with looking into the country’s worst-ever attack.
