Category: World

VIENNA — Iran lashed out Tuesday against U.S. President Donald Trump’s call on OPEC to increase oil production and limit global energy prices, saying the cartel “is not an American organization.” The OPEC oil ministers began arriving in Vienna on Tuesday ahead of their official meeting Friday, when they will also confer with Russia, a […]

SANAA, Yemen — Fierce fighting raged Tuesday outside the airport of the crucial Yemeni city of Hodeida as thousands of pro-government fighters backed by a Saudi-led coalition battled Iranian-allied Shiite rebels for control of the Red Sea port — the main passageway for food and aid supplies in a country teetering on the brink of […]

COLLEVILLE-SUR-MER, France — For decades, he was known only as Unknown X-9352 at a World War II American cemetery in Belgium where he was interred. On Tuesday, Julius Heinrich Otto “Henry” Pieper, his identity recovered, was laid to rest beside his twin brother in Normandy, 74 years after the two Navy men died together when […]

Jim Hayes had tried to find his biological parents for decades. Despite some roadblocks, it was finally an Ancestry.com DNA test that brought Hayes and his father together for the first time in 50 years, according to ABCNews.go.com. Their meeting in April involved heartfelt hugs and tears of joy. Father Tom Nuveman told “Good Morning […]

SEATTLE — The call came at mealtime — an anonymous threat demanding $5,000 or her son’s life. So Blanca Orantes-Lopez, her 8-year-old boy and his father packed up and left the Pacific surfing town of Puerto La Libertad in El Salvador and headed for the United States. Two months later, she sits in a federal […]

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) — Some American parents who for years have used cannabis to treat severe forms of epilepsy in their children are feeling more cautious than celebratory as U.S. regulators near a decision on whether to approve the first drug derived from the marijuana plant. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is expected […]

AUGUSTA, Maine — The nation’s biggest test of ranked-choice voting nears a result Tuesday but it remains unclear when the announcement of winners in two Democratic primaries will be. Maine election officials scrambled to retrieve ballots from a handful of towns because the scanned sheets were illegible, possibly delaying computer tabulations to determine a winner. […]

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump has directed the U.S. Trade Representative to prepare new tariffs on $200 billion in Chinese imports as the two nations move closer to a trade war. In response, China has threatened what it called “comprehensive measures,” raising the risk that it would target major American companies operating in China. Trump’s […]

SALT LAKE CITY — Here’s a look at the news for June 19. MUST-READ NEWS THIS MORNING: Rep. Mia Love pushes bill to end family separations at border Utah Rep. Mia Love announced Monday she is pushing a provision in a new immigration bill that would stop President Donald Trump’s policy to separate families and […]

BEIJING (AP) — China on Tuesday threatened “comprehensive measures” in response to U.S. President Donald Trump’s new tariff hike, raising the possibility Beijing might target operations of American companies. Trump’s announcement fueled fears that economic losses, limited so far to companies hit by U.S. or Chinese tariff hikes, might spread if the dispute chills global […]