Posts in category National & World

By JULIET LINDERMAN BALTIMORE (AP) – A judge was expected to decide when the first of six Baltimore officers charged in the death of Freddie …

UNITED NATIONS (AP) – President Barack Obama on Sunday committed the U.S. to a new blueprint to eliminate poverty and hunger around the world, telling …

  Fort Lauderdale, Fla. — On Saturday, September 19, Sistrunk Boulevard celebrated its “From Past to Present -Collection Day Party,” in hopes of bringing the …

  Although his father was an art collector, hearing his son declare that he’d be majoring in art history was “not an easy sell,” said …

By Catalina Garcia   HAVANA, Cuba — When Mirta Garcia Hernandez heard Pope Francis was coming to Havana, she knew she had to be there. …

By HARUMA UMAR  and   IBRAHIM ABDULAZIZ BAUCHI, Nigeria — Nigerian public schools are reopening in Borno state, in the country’s northeast, where the military …

By SERGIO BUSTOS MIAMI (AP) – Republican Jeb Bush is releasing a plan to fix a “failed” system of federal rules and regulations that he …

By BRAHIMA OUEDRAOGO OUAGADOUGOU, Burkina Faso (AP) – Burkina Faso’s coup leader has said that negotiations are still ongoing as a deadline given by the …

By JULIET LINDERMAN BALTIMORE — Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake is abandoning her re-election bid, dogged by critics who questioned whether she was fit to lead …

  PORT-OF-SPAIN, Trinidad — A new prime minister took office Wednesday in Trinidad and Tobago after the previous ruling party was voted out in general …