America

By Helen Murphy and Julia Symmes Cobb | BOGOTA Colombians narrowly rejected a peace deal with Marxist guerrillas in a referendum on Sunday, plunging the nation into uncertainty and dashing President Juan Manuel Santos' painstakingly negotiated plan to end the 52-year war. The surprise victory for...

A 6-year-old South Carolina boy wounded in a schoolyard shooting died on Saturday, a coroner said, a day after a teenage suspect was charged with murdering his own father and wounding the boy, a teacher and another student. The boy, Jacob Hall, was shot on...

By Steve Holland | MANHEIM, PA. Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump closed out a rough week for his campaign on Saturday by escalating personal attacks on Democrat Hillary Clinton, questioning her stamina and saying she should be in prison for her handling of classified emails. After...

Donald Trump declared a $916 million (Sh92.7 billion) loss on his 1995 income tax return, allowing him to legally avoid paying taxes for decades, The New York Times reported late Saturday. The sensitive issue is important because Trump has refused to release his tax records,...

Donald Trump’s charitable foundation — which has been sustained for years by donors outside the Trump family — has never obtained the certification that New York requires before charities can solicit money from the public, according to the state attorney general’s office. Under the laws...

Minneapolis is the 25th most dangerous city in the country, according to a report published by 24/7 Wall St., a news and opinion website. As alarming as that might sound, those who monitor crime view such rankings warily. “It’s not the sort of thing that as...

Wednesday, September 28, 201 OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — A judge has ruled in favor of a meat company accused of mistreatment of Somali Muslim workers. The Grand Island Independent reports (http://bit.ly/2dhhvKI ) that the judge ruled in U.S. District Court in Omaha last week that she found...

HEMPSTEAD, N.Y. ― A number of fairly mendacious statements were made during Monday night’s first presidential debate. But arguably the most brazen involved Donald Trump’s views on climate change. The GOP nominee was called to task for claiming that climate change is a hoax perpetrated...

The competitors for the White House have faced off in what could have been the most-watched presidential debate in US history. A record 100 million people were expected to watch the first debate between Republican Donald Trump and Democrat Hillary Clinton, televised from in New...

New York (AFP) - Republican candidate Donald Trump pledged to recognize Jerusalem as Israel's "undivided" capital if he is elected president, meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who Hillary Clinton also met that evening. Netanyahu met privately with Trump at his residence in Trump...