Category Archives: World
Deal emerges to end Homeland Security budget standoff as TSA disruptions deepen
WASHINGTON (AP) - Senators raced Tuesday to clinch an emerging proposal to end the Homeland Security shutdown by funding much of the department, including the Transportation Security Administration ai...
Mar 24, 2026
Afghanistan releases American national Dennis Coyle held for more than a year
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) - Afghanistan's Taliban authorities on Tuesday released American academic Dennis Coyle after holding him for over a year, with the Foreign Ministry saying the release came on t...
Mar 24, 2026
Geneva's CERN hails delicate test on transporting antimatter as a scientific success
GENEVA (AP) - Scientists in Geneva took some antiprotons out for a spin - a very delicate one - in a truck, in a never-tried-before test drive that has been deemed a success. If this so-called antimat...
Mar 24, 2026
Danish election produces inconclusive result that leaves prime minister’s future unclear
COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) - Denmark's election Tuesday ended in an inconclusive result that left the prime minister's future unclear, after a campaign that focused on bread-and-butter issues rather tha...
Mar 24, 2026
Trump administration offers 15-point ceasefire plan to Iran
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) - The Trump administration offered a 15-point ceasefire plan to Iran, a person briefed on the contours of the proposal said late Tuesday, even as the U.S. military pre...
Mar 23, 2026
Iran targets Israel and Gulf Arab states even as Trump says US is in talks to end the war
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) - Iranian missiles and drones targeted Israel and Gulf Arab states Tuesday, even as U.S. President Donald Trump said the U.S. was in talks with the Islamic Republic to...
Mar 23, 2026
Senate confirms Markwayne Mullin to lead Homeland Security as TSA standoff deepens
WASHINGTON (AP) - The Senate confirmed Markwayne Mullin as homeland security secretary late Monday, approving President Donald Trump's nominee to take over the embattled department after the firing of...
Mar 23, 2026
At least 66 killed in military plane crash in Colombia, head of armed forces says
BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) - A military transport plane with 128 people on board, mostly soldiers, crashed shortly after taking off Monday in Puerto Leguizamo, Colombia, killing at least 66 people and leav...
Mar 23, 2026
Supreme Court sounds skeptical of late-arriving ballots, a Trump target
WASHINGTON (AP) - The Supreme Court 's conservative majority on Monday sounded skeptical of state laws that allow the counting of late-arriving mail ballots, a persistent target of President Donald Tr...
Mar 23, 2026
Pilot and copilot killed in collision between jet and fire truck at New York's LaGuardia Airport
NEW YORK (AP) - Two people were killed and several others badly hurt when an Air Canada regional jet struck a fire truck on a runway while landing at New York's LaGuardia Airport late Sunday night, of...
Mar 22, 2026