COLUMBIA, S.C. Before Dylann Roof was arrested for killing nine black church members, he scribbled a note to his mother, apologizing for all the repercussions his actions would cause. Weeks later, in a jailhouse journal, he wrote that he had no regrets. The evidence, along with his manifesto, hundreds of photos and a confession to […]

VILLA DE REYES, Mexico Word spread quickly through cellphone messages and shouts between coworkers that Ford Motor Co. had canceled its new $1.6 billion car plant at its sprawling 700-acre high desert site in north-central Mexico. “When I saw it on the phone, (I thought), ‘Well, no, it can’t be,’” said Higinio Salazar, a security […]

WASHINGTON Vice President Joe Biden told President-elect Donald Trump Thursday to “grow up.” Biden dismissed Trump’s complaint on Twitter about how the Obama administration has handled the transition. The vice president told “PBS NewsHour” in an interview that it’s time for Trump “to be an adult.” Biden said to Trump: “You’re president. You’ve got to […]

MAIDUGURI, Nigeria Soldiers interrogating captured Boko Haram suspects have found one of the Chibok schoolgirls kidnapped by the extremist group nearly three years ago, along with her baby, Nigeria’s military said Thursday. Nearly 300 girls were kidnapped by the insurgents from a government boarding school in the remote northeastern town of Chibok in April 2014, […]

FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — Residents of Germany’s financial capital, Frankfurt, will have to do without their Sunday stroll or jog along the river while explosives experts recover and defuse an aerial bomb from World War II. Police said rescue divers found the 110-pound bomb in the Main River on Tuesday during a training exercise near […]

BERLIN (AP) — Most Germans believe the country is a safe place despite the recent truck attack in Berlin that claimed 12 lives shortly before Christmas. A poll published late Thursday by public broadcaster ARD found that 73 percent of respondents said they felt secure in Germany, compared with 26 percent who didn’t and one […]

BEIJING (AP) — Seven miners were confirmed dead after a falling roof triggered a gas outburst in a central Chinese coal mine, bringing the death toll to 12, state media said Friday. The outburst occurred Wednesday night when 51 workers were underground at the mine in the city of Dengfeng in Henan province, state broadcaster […]