Berks County is divided into three jurisdictions: Reading, Muhlenberg Township and the rest of the county. Reading and ...

The United Arab Emirates (UAE) aims to compete in the world league of financial markets. Accordingly, in 2026, both publicly ...

Under international law, Venezuela has control over its own oil — but its efforts to nationalize its oil industry in 2007 did result in arbitration.

His Highness the Amir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani issued Sunday Amiri Decision No. (6) of 2026, appointing Eng. Nawaf Ibr ...

Tensions between Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates burst into the open this week with an unusually direct ...

The new Mardi Gras Service runs from New Orleans to Mobile, Ala., and lets visitors explore the Gulf Coast’s pleasantly walkable waterfront towns without a car. The Mardi Gras Service crosses the ...

CLAREMONT, N.H. — The U.S. Department of Justice announced on Thursday that Jay Lucas of Portsmouth, N.H., the owner of the now-closed Eagle-Times newspaper, was charged with multiple counts of fraud, ...

An 11.5-foot, nearly 800-pound great white shark named Ripple is breaking new ground by venturing deep into the Gulf of Mexico. His movements mark some of the first documented tagged white sharks to ...

A dramatic overtime victory that clinched Cathedral Prep’s first PIAA football title and ended its opponent’s state-record winning streak. That was an Erie County sports highlight from 2000. A record ...

Did you follow the news this week? Take our quiz to see how well you stack up with other Times readers. Rob Reiner, who died this week alongside his wife, Michele, had a storied career as a Hollywood ...

LOS ANGELES — Peter Arnett, the Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter who spent decades dodging bullets and bombs to bring the world eyewitness accounts of war from the rice paddies of Vietnam to the ...

Shell and INEOS Energy have struck oil at a deepwater exploration well in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico, confirming a new discovery in the high-pressure Norphlet formation. Shell and INEOS Energy said the ...