New Orleans holds 1st parade of Carnival season 5 days after deadly attack on Bourbon Street
Women dressed as angels, hands clasped in prayer, passed through New Orleans to celebrate the first parade of Carnival season ...
Jimmy Carter will be honored in Washington, a city where he remained an outsider
Nearly 44 years after Jimmy Carter left the nation’s capital in humbling defeat, the 39th president returns to Washington for ...
Weather Forecast: A snowy morning across Rochester and Western New York
ROCHESTER, NY (WROC) – Snow showers persist this morning and we add a few tenths of an inch to the snow that fell overnight.
The 49ers fire special teams coordinator Brian Schneider, AP source says
The San Francisco 49ers fired special teams coach Brian Schneider following a season when repeated blunders in the kicking ...
The next round of bitter cold and snow will hit the southern US
The next round of bitter cold was set to envelop the southern U.S. on Tuesday, after the first significant winter storm of ...
Mexico drops migrants in troubled resort as it disperses them far from US border
About 100 migrants from various countries wandered directionless and disoriented through the streets of the troubled Pacific ...
Smart bird feeders gain popularity and spark interest in bird-watching
Marin Plank truly had no interest in birds when she gave her husband a camera-equipped bird feeder for his birthday. But by ...
France marks 10 years since deadly Charlie Hebdo attacks
A decade after gunmen stormed the offices of the satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo in a deadly assault that shook France to its core and ignited a global outcry in defense of freedom ...
European court rules against Greece over migrant’s illegal deportation, calls practice ‘systematic’
The European Court of Human Rights, in a landmark ruling Tuesday, found that Greece had illegally deported a woman back to neighboring Turkey and described the use of summary ...
At least 9 miners are trapped in a coal mine in India’s northeastern Assam state
At least nine workers are trapped inside a flooded coal mine in India’s northeastern Assam state, officials said Tuesday, as authorities summoned the army to help in the ...
Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck settle divorce, seek judge’s approval of settlement
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck have settled their divorce and are asking a judge to finalize their breakup. Lopez filed documents Monday in Los Angeles Superior Court that show the ...
In freezing temperatures, swimmers in China plunge into a river for health and joy
Even as the mercury dropped below freezing, enthusiasm soared among about a dozen hardy swimmers during an annual ritual in northeast China’s ice city of Harbin. The swimmers ...