Posts in category National & World

GEORGETOWN, Guyana (AP) — The Caribbean Community (Caricom) has requested a meeting with European nations that engaged in the Atlantic slave trade to talk about …

WASHINGTON — Low-income students have inadvertently presented themselves as millionaires on an application for federal financial student aid – making it less likely they will …

AMSTERDAM — An Amsterdam court ruled that the traditional figure known as Black Pete – the sidekick to the Dutch equivalent of Santa Claus – …

WASHINGTON (AP) – The Navy has its first female four-star admiral. She is Michelle Janine Howard, promoted on Tuesday to the service's highest rank.

WASHINGTON — Under pressure from Congress, celebrity doctor Mehmet Oz on Tuesday offered to help “drain the swamp” of unscrupulous marketers using his name to …

BAGHDAD (AP) – A man purporting to be the leader of the Sunni extremist group that has declared an Islamic state in territory it controls …

BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) – A group of American Indians wants a court to preserve and eventually release an investigative file containing inappropriate emails sent by …

NEW YORK (AP) — New York City Comptroller Scott Stringer has approved a tentative $40 million settlement with the five men wrongly convicted in the …

KINGSTON — The managing director of the International Monetary Fund on Friday praised Jamaica’s political leadership for making key economic reforms during the first year …

HAVANA — They were forgotten masters of a long-ago sound, their faces deeply lined and their hands spotted with age. Then, suddenly, at an age …