HARTFORD, Conn. The incumbent governor ran on a kindness platform and is just finishing up a year of public appearances and speeches. The candidates vying to succeed her are focusing their campaigns on issues including homelessness, recycling and bullying prevention. Welcome to politics, elementary-school style. Seven candidates are running to be the fifth-grade “kid governor” […]

DETROIT (AP) — The anchor of a once-mighty Great Lakes steamship is back above water for the first time in six decades. Crews raised the Greater Detroit’s anchor, all 6,000 pounds of it, on Tuesday. Three divers from the Great Lakes Maritime Institute braved the 47-degree water temperature, descending 20 feet to the bottom of […]

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — Conjoined twins from Nigeria have been separated after a lengthy operation at a Tennessee hospital. Multiple news outlets report the 1-year-old twins, Miracle and Testimony Ayeni, were separated following an 18-hour procedure at Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital in Memphis. The girls were conjoined at the lower half of the body. The […]

BEIRUT Russian missiles pounded opposition targets in Syria on Tuesday, the start of a much-anticipated offensive, while activists reported the resumption of bombing in rebel-held neighborhoods of Aleppo for the first time in nearly a month, apparently by Syrian government warplanes. The Russian blitz began hours after President Vladimir Putin and U.S. President-elect Donald Trump […]

ATHENS, Greece President Barack Obama toured Greece’s most famous ancient monument, the Acropolis citadel, and was due to deliver a speech to the Greek people later today as he winds up the first leg of his final foreign tour as president and heads from Greece to Germany. Obama entered the complex through the Propylaea, the […]

AWSAJA, Iraq Their smiles and eyes wide with anticipation say it all — for the first time in two years, Iraqi children in a village south of Mosul that was freed from the Islamic State group are back in school. Awsaja, about 30 miles from the IS-held city and the ferocious battles underway there between […]

WELLINGTON, New Zealand New Zealand military leaders said today they had almost completed the evacuation of more than 700 tourists and residents from a small coastal town, two days after a powerful earthquake cut off train and vehicle access. The magnitude 7.8 quake left two people dead, triggered a small tsunami, and brought down rocks […]