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WASHINGTON (AP) -- A robotics team of six girls from Afghanistan is taking part in an international competition in Washington, after clearing visa obstacles that prompted intervention from President Donald Trump....
LAS VEGAS (AP) -- O.J. Simpson, the former football star, TV pitchman and now Nevada prison inmate No. 1027820, will have a lot going for him when he asks state parole board members this week to release him after serving more than eight years for an ill-fated bid to retrieve sports memorabilia....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Julian Senn-Raemont isn't convinced he needs to buy health insurance when he loses coverage under his dad's plan in a couple of years - no matter what happens in the policy debate in Washington, or how cheap the plans are....
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) -- Details about what led a Minneapolis police officer to fatally shoot an Australian woman remained unclear Monday, with authorities saying only that officers were responding to a 911 call about a possible assault when the woman was shot....
On the eve of India’s monsoon session of parliament, a group of 40 Indian senior spiritual leaders and intellectuals from diverse faiths called upon their countrymen to seek strength from the nation’s deep spiritual reservoirs to end the increasing environment of hate, violence and disregard for the rule of law in which many innocents of religious and marginalized communities have been lynched in recent weeks. The leaders who gathered on Sunday in New Delhi, “called upon the government to end impunity which was at the root of the atmosphere of fear that stalks the land today,” said a press release by Bishop Theodore Mascarenhas, the Secretary General of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of India (CBCI), the apex body of the Catholic Church in the country. “It was felt that these developments threatened not just secularism, but the Constitution and the democratic fabric of the country,” wrote the bishop who convoked t...
AMMAN, Jordan (AP) -- A military court convicted a Jordanian soldier Monday of killing three U.S. military trainers at a Jordanian air base and sentenced him to life in prison with hard labor....
MIDDLETOWN, R.I. (AP) -- Former national security adviser Michael Flynn, at the center of multiple probes into Russia's interference in the 2016 presidential election, seeks sanctuary from the swirling eddy of news coverage in the beach town where he grew up surfing and skateboarding, one of nine siblings crammed into a 1,200-square foot house....
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) -- Less than two weeks after North Korea's first intercontinental ballistic missile test, South Korea's new president has offered to hold talks at the tense border separating the two Koreas in what would be the rivals' first face-to-face meeting since late 2015....
VATICAN CITY (AP) -- Other than St. Peter's Basilica, there is hardly better real estate in Vatican City than the sprawling penthouse apartment in the Vatican gardens, where the rooftop terrace has in-your-face views of the dome itself and overlooks the hotel that Pope Francis calls home....
LONDON (AP) -- Never count out Roger Federer. Seems obvious, right? Especially after he won his record-breaking eighth Wimbledon championship and second Grand Slam title of this resurgent season....
