Tag Archives: International

NEW YORK - Spike Lee was just 10 when Muhammad Ali, in 1967, refused to be drafted into the Vietnam War. It wasn't his fight, Ali said then. The Vietnamese "never lynched me." Ali's stand, and the sub...

PARIS - The virus crisis has triggered the worst global recession in nearly a century -- and the pain is not over yet even if there is no second wave of infections, an international economic report wa...

COLUMBIA, S.C. - With his defeat of three little-known GOP challengers behind him, U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham is officially embarking on the next phase of his quest for a fourth term: a general election...

London's mayor has called for an urgent investigation after rapper Wretch 32 released a video of his father being tasered in his home by a British police officer. The 36-second clip posted late Tuesda...

ANNAPOLIS, Md. - Baltimore's disgraced former mayor who already has been sentenced to three years in federal prison in a scandal over her "Healthy Holly" children's books touting exercise and nutritio...

IBM is getting out of the facial recognition business, saying it's concerned about how the technology can be used for mass surveillance and racial profiling. Ongoing protests responding to the death o...

WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump ignited fresh controversy over his hard-line "law and order" push Tuesday by peddling yet another unfounded conspiracy theory, this time trying to raise suspicions ...

NEW YORK - Charles King's "Gods of the Upper Air," a group biography on such groundbreaking anthropologists as Franz Boas, Margaret Mead and Zora Neale Hurston, has received a prominent history award....

The Vienna Philharmonic returned home, and its famous strings purred for the first time since March 10. Its 2,854-seat Musikverein, considered by many the world's most beautiful concert hall, was fill...

NEW YORK - Stressed out while working at a bank in New Zealand, Junelle Kunin began searching for music paired with teachings from the Dalai Lama to calm herself down and allow herself to focus. But s...