Tag Archives: International

WASHINGTON - The Federal Reserve kept its benchmark interest rate unchanged at a low level Wednesday amid an economy that looks solid but faces potential global threats. The Fed sketched a mostly posi...

LOS ANGELES - Firefighters are responding to a blaze in a 25-story Los Angeles residential building. Authorities say there are reports that an unspecified number of persons jumped. Firefighters swarme...

MOSCOW - Russian President Vladimir Putin has pardoned an Israeli woman who had been jailed on drug charges, the Kremlin said Wednesday. A presidential decree pardoning Naama Issachar on "humanitarian...

GENEVA - Sophisticated hackers infiltrated U.N. offices in Geneva and Vienna last year in an apparent espionage operation, and their identity and the extent of the data they obtained is not clear. An ...

PORTSMOUTH, N.H. - A pair of civil engineers took their relationship to new heights atop a New Hampshire bridge. Dan Del Tufo arranged to have the Memorial Bridge in Portsmouth lifted to its maximum h...

PARK CITY, Utah - The Sundance Film Festival is a showcase of new voices in cinema, and few have come through louder and clearer than Radha Blank's. Blank wrote, directed and stars in her debut film, ...

WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump's legal team on Tuesday concluded its three-day presentation as they started it - arguing that the Democrats' case amounted to partisan politics that would undo the...

WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump's defence team falsely claimed the Justice Department was already investigating him even before the 2016 election and distorted the facts about a dossier of opposit...

BANGKOK - British Airways and Asian budget carriers Lion Air and Seoul Air are suspending flights to China as fears spread about the outbreak of a new virus that has killed more than 130 people. Sever...

LOS ANGELES - The helicopter carrying Kobe Bryant didn't have a recommended warning system to alert the pilot he was too close to land but it's not clear it would have averted the crash that killed ni...