Posts in category National & World

By ELAINE KURTENBACH and KARIN LAUB TOKYO — The fates of a Japanese journalist and Jordanian military pilot were unknown Friday, a day after the latest purported deadline …

(AP Photo/The Florida Times-Union, Bob Mack)   After serving three years of incarceration, the Florida mother who fired a warning shot near her allegedly abusive …

Photo courtesy of vosizneias.com   By RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR WASHINGTON — Some 9.5 million people have already signed up for 2015 coverage under President Barack Obama’s …

Photo Courtesy of digitaljournal.com   PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — Visiting members of the U.N. Security Council on Sunday called for Haiti to organize credible elections as soon …

Photo Courtesy of efesalud.com   By JONATHAN PAYE-LAYLEH MONROVIA, Liberia — Liberia said Monday that there are currently only five confirmed cases of Ebola in the …

In the decade I was born our nation of 128 million people was in the grip of one of the first great man-made ecological disasters …

Photo courtesy of candyindustry.com   CHICAGO (AP) — Melvin Gordon, who helped turn the enduring popularity of the humble Tootsie Roll into a candy empire, has …

By ERICA WERNER and ERIC TUCKER WASHINGTON — Loretta Lynch is promising a fresh relationship with law enforcement — and with Congress — as she appears before a …

By MICHELLE R. SMITH FALL RIVER, Mass. — A full jury was seated Monday for the murder trial of former New England Patriots player Aaron Hernandez, …

By DANICA KIRKA LONDON — The male monopoly in the leadership of the Church of England ended Monday, as the 500-year-old institution consecrated its first female …