
State prosecutors in El Salvador said Wednesday they have launched a probe to see if Salvadorans identified in the Panama Papers leak broke any laws. "The investigation has begun and we will take the necessary steps," the chief state prosecutor, Douglas Melendez, told a news conference. &
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State prosecutors in El Salvador said Wednesday they have launched a probe to see if Salvadorans identified in the Panama Papers leak broke any laws. "The investigation has begun and we will take the necessary steps," the chief state prosecutor, Douglas Melendez, told a news conference. &

The impeachment of Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff should go ahead, the representative for a congressional commission said Wednesday, bringing the country's political crisis a step closer to a showdown. Jovair Arantes, rapporteur for a special impeachment commission in the lower house of Congress

THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — A clear majority of people who voted Wednesday in a Dutch referendum rejected a far-reaching European Union free trade deal with Ukraine, but an exit poll showed turnout may have been too low for the vote to be valid.

By Will Dunham WASHINGTON (Reuters) - When the first prehistoric people trekked into South America towards the end of the Ice Age, they found a wondrous, lush continent inhabited by all manner of strange creatures like giant ground sloths and car-sized armadillos. Only much later did people muster

By Maria Carolina Marcello BRASILIA (Reuters) - Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff moved closer to impeachment when the rapporteur of a Congressional committee said on Wednesday there were grounds for the Senate putting her on trial for manipulating budget accounts in 2014 to boost her reelection prospects

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — A 78-year-old state senator is attempting to run out the clock on Nebraska's legislative session with a filibuster in which he has described getting a colonoscopy and quizzed a colleague about the best way to pour a beer.

Around 60 sex workers staged a noisy protest outside parliament during the final debate on the bill that will affect the livelihoods of at least 30,000 prostitutes in France, four in five of whom are foreign. Backed by the Socialist government, the legislation has been nearly two and a half years in

NEWTOWN, Conn. (AP) — A teacher was arrested Wednesday for bringing a gun to the town's middle school, police said.

Iceland's coalition government turned a deaf ear Wednesday to angry protesters calling for its resignation, a day after the prime minister stepped down over the Panama Papers scandal. Time is on their side and it's crucial for them to stay in power," lamented Gyda Margret Petursdottir,
HUNTSVILLE, Texas (AP) — A South Texas man was set to be executed Wednesday after the U.S. Supreme Court refused to block his punishment for the 1998 slaying of a 12-year-old boy whose blood the convicted killer said he drank.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal money left over from the largely successful fight against Ebola will now go to combating the growing threat of the Zika virus, the Obama administration announced Wednesday.

The stock market turned in a solid gain, led by a jump in health care and energy companies. Drugmakers posted especially big gains Wednesday, including a 6 percent rise in biotechnology company Celgene. ...

Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton looked to bounce back Wednesday from unsettling presidential primary losses in Wisconsin, training their sights in the next White House contests on friendlier ground -- their home state of New York. The Republican and Democratic frontrunners were trounced Tuesday night

Dutch voters Wednesday rejected a key EU pact with Ukraine in a referendum seen as a barometer of anti-EU feeling, but low turnout cast doubts on whether the ballot was valid, exit polls showed. After a day of sluggish voting, the first exit polls released by public broadcaster NOS left broad political

Endangered salmon blocked for nearly a century from hundreds of miles of the Klamath River in Oregon and California are expected to return en masse under unusual agreements signed Wednesday to tear down ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Republican Donald Trump signaled a shift toward "more meat on the bone" in his policy speeches Wednesday amid new signs of campaign discord, a day after his stinging Wisconsin defeat emboldened his critics and pushed the GOP closer to its first contested national convention

WASHINGTON (AP) — "Cubs or White Sox?"

The White House on Wednesday said that President Barack Obama called Myanmar's President Htin Kyaw and de facto leader Aung San Suu Kyi, praising the move toward civilian-led government. Obama called the pair to offer his congratulations, as military hardliners try to limit Suu Kyi's formal

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (AP) — Harvard University's president has dedicated a plaque that honors slaves who worked on campus centuries ago.
Gov. Chris Christie came to Atlantic City Wednesday, not to meet with its embattled mayor, but to denounce him as "a liar" who has "zero idea" what he's doing. The governor used his ...