Posts in category National & World

By ZEINA KARAM BEIRUT — Kurdish fighters backed by intense U.S.-led airstrikes pushed the Islamic State group almost entirely out of the Syrian town of Kobani …

By JAKE COYLE AP Film Writer The Oscar nominations added intrigue if not diversity to an Academy Awards race by favoring one late-season release (American …

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N.’s Ebola chief says there are still at least 50 hotspots in the hardest-hit West African countries but new cases …

By DAVID McFADDEN PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — Haiti has a new prime minister as it enters a phase of political uncertainty, with its parliament dissolved, opposition …

By HOWARD FENDRICH AP Pro Football Writer The NFL is investigating whether the New England Patriots deflated footballs that were used in their AFC championship …

By BRADLEY KLAPPER and MICHAEL WEISSENSTEIN HAVANA (AP) — The highest-level U.S. delegation to Cuba in decades begins two days of negotiations with grand promises by President Barack …

PARIS (AP) — French authorities have honored a Mali-born employee who saved lives at the kosher supermarket attacked by terrorists as a hero and granted …

By AHMED AL-HAJ SANAA, Yemen (AP) — Yemen’s powerful Shiite Houthi rebels shelled the residence of the country’s embattled president Tuesday and simultaneously swept into the …

By JON GAMBRELL and MARI YAMAGUCHI   CAIRO (AP) — The Islamic State group threatened to kill two Japanese hostages Tuesday unless they receive $200 …

By CHRISTOPHER TORCHIA Associated Press JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Survivors of an assault by Islamic militants that killed hundreds of civilians in Nigeria have described days …