Posts in category National & World

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 …

SALVADOR, Brazil (AP) — They captured the hearts of America, from coast to coast, big towns and small, all the way to the White House. …

Bobby Womack, a colorful and highly influential R&B singer-songwriter who influenced artists from the Rolling Stones to Damon Albarn, has died. He was 70. Womack's …

Jack J. Green, founder and publisher of two longstanding community newspapers in Virginia, died Thursday, June 26. He succumbed to chronic lung-related illness. He was …

Something is happening just beneath the fight over the name of a certain Washington, D.C., pro football team: America is working through the process of …