Category Archives: World

NEW ORLEANS - A crowd stampede injured several people attending a New Orleans festival organized by rapper Lil Wayne. Large portions of an audience estimated to include 15,000 people ran at least twic...

PORTLAND, Maine - Maine moved ahead Friday with plans to become the first state to allow voters to rank candidates in a general presidential election. Gov. Janet Mills, a Democrat, said she'll allow a...

NEW YORK - The union that represents opera performers and staff has launched its own investigation into sexual harassment allegations against superstar Placido Domingo, saying it cannot be sure that o...

LOS ANGELES - A robust audience turned out to catch "It: Chapter Two" in movie theatres this weekend, but not quite as big as the first. Warner Bros. says Sunday that "It: Chapter Two" earned an estim...

WASHINGTON - Comedian and media mogul Byron Allen wants TV viewers to watch the channels his company produces - from one that runs "Judge Judy"-like shows all day to those dedicated to comedy, cars, f...

NEW YORK - Janelle Monae brought down the house Saturday at Ralph Lauren's New York Fashion Week show, where "the house" was a jazzy nightclub of yesteryear that Lauren created inside a Wall Street bu...

COLUMBIA, S.C. - Mark Sanford, the former South Carolina governor and congressman, has decided to launch a longshot Republican challenge to President Donald Trump. "I am here to tell you now that I am...

ATLANTIC BEACH, N.C. - A weakened Hurricane Dorian flooded homes on North Carolina's Outer Banks on Friday with a fury that took even storm-hardened residents by surprise, forcing people to climb into...

TEHRAN, Iran - The acting director-general of the United Nations nuclear watchdog is in Tehran for meetings after Iran announced it would begin using advanced centrifuges prohibited by its 2015 atomic...

SARAJEVO, Bosnia - Bosnia's capital, Sarajevo, is holding its first ever LGBT pride parade, amid heavy security, while opponents of the event held a gathering of their own. Using sniffer dogs and meta...