Posts in category National & World

By ABDI GULED NAIROBI, Kenya — A leader with the Islamic extremist group al-Shabab, who had a $3 million bounty on his head, surrendered in Somalia, …

By LAURA WIDES-MUNOZ Associated Press MIAMI  — Hours before President Barack Obama announced an end to a half-century of U.S. efforts to isolate Cuba’s communist …

As a young boy growing up in “colored town” west of the railroad tracks in Dania I lived through the great flood of 1947 that …

By JOSH LEDERMAN HONOLULU — President Barack Obama rang in 2014 by declaring a “year of action,” vowing to strengthen the nation by focusing on fairness, …

By ERIC TUCKER WASHINGTON — North Korea is experiencing widespread Internet outages. One expert says the country’s online access is “totally down.” It’s not immediately clear …

By JULIE PACE and MATTHEW LEE WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama announced the re-establishment of diplomatic relations with Cuba on Wednesday and declared an end to America’s “outdated …

By REBECCA SANTANA and RIAZ KHAN PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) — The Taliban massacre that killed 148 people, mostly children, at a military-run school in northwestern Pakistan left a …

By NICK PERRY SYDNEY — Tearful Australians laid mounds of flowers at the site where two of 17 hostages were killed Tuesday when police swooped into a …

By RIAZ KHAN PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) — Taliban gunmen stormed a military-run school in the northwestern Pakistani city of Peshawar on Tuesday, killing 126 people, officials …