By Nicole Winfield THE ASSOCIATED PRESS VATICAN CITY _ Pope Francis assured Dominican authorities on Wednesday that the truth must prevail in the case of his […]

By Tom Hays And Colleen Long THE ASSOCIATED PRESS NEW YORK _ A white New York City police officer was cleared Wednesday in the chokehold death […]

By Nedra Pickler THE ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON _ President Barack Obama asked federal agencies on Monday for concrete recommendations to ensure the U.S. isn’t building a […]

KINGSTON, Jamaica _ A fact-finding panel appointed to examine a bloody 2010 security operation in Jamaica has started its work in the island’s capital. The three-member […]

KINGSTON, Jamaica _ Police in Jamaica say a French woman has been arrested at an island airport and charged with attempting to smuggle cocaine. The Jamaica […]

DAKAR, Senegal _ A Canadian has been named secretary-general of the International Organization of the Francophonie, a group of mostly French-speaking countries, many of them former […]

CASTRIES, St. Lucia _ An alliance of left-leaning Latin American and Caribbean nations is providing $10 million in grants to the small island of St. Lucia […]

KINGSTON, Jamaica _ Heavy rains have washed away a bridge and flooded low-lying areas in several parishes in eastern Jamaica. Military rescuers have brought more than […]

By Alan Scher Zagier THE ASSOCIATED PRESS   FERGUSON, Mo. _ The white police officer who killed Michael Brown has resigned from the Ferguson Police Department, […]

By Ezequiel Abiu Lopez THE ASSOCIATED PRESS SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic _ Dominican President Danilo Medina has urged legislators to decriminalize abortions if a woman’s life […]

The prime minister of Antigua & Barbuda has appointed actor Robert De Niro as special economic envoy of the twin-island nation in the eastern Caribbean. The […]