World

Trump curbs immigration for 6 nations in election-year push

WASHINGTON - The Trump administration announced Friday that it was curbing legal immigration from six additional countries that officials said did not meet security standards, as part of an election-y...

Jan 31, 2020

Facebook fights spread of misinformation about virus online

Facebook says it's working to limit the spread of misinformation and potentially harmful content about the coronavirus as bogus claims about the ongoing outbreak circulate online. Kang-Xing Jin, Faceb...

Jan 31, 2020

Fed leaves key rate unchanged at low level amid global risks

WASHINGTON - The Federal Reserve kept its key interest rate unchanged at a low level Wednesday amid an economy that looks solid but faces potential global threats, including from China's viral outbrea...

Jan 31, 2020

'I thought I was going to die.' Tenants flee high-rise fire

LOS ANGELES - Firefighters made a dramatic ladder rescue of a man who appeared about to jump from a burning Los Angeles apartment building on Wednesday and helicopters plucked people from the roof of ...

Jan 31, 2020

Weinstein rape accuser testifies about sexual advances

NEW YORK - A key accuser in Harvey Weinstein's rape trial testified Friday that he made a series of unwelcome advances, once trying to kiss her as she tried to fight him off, then telling her she coul...

Jan 31, 2020

Putin pardons Israeli woman jailed in Russia on drug charges

MOSCOW - Russian President Vladimir Putin has pardoned an Israeli woman who had been jailed on drug charges, the Kremlin said Wednesday. A presidential decree ordering Naama Issachar's release on "hum...

Jan 31, 2020

Leaked report shows United Nations suffered hack

GENEVA - Sophisticated hackers infiltrated U.N. networks in Geneva and Vienna last year in an apparent espionage operation that top officials at the world body kept largely quiet. The hackers' identit...

Jan 31, 2020

Trump trial end in sight as vote nears on more witnesses

WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump seems headed for acquittal in his impeachment trial after Sen. Lamar Alexander's decision to stick with fellow Republicans and oppose Democratic efforts to call mor...

Jan 31, 2020

China locked down 50 million people and has to keep them fed

BEIJING - Carrying permits demanding "fast passage," truck drivers rushed a 560-ton shipment of disinfectant from eastern China to Wuhan, the locked-down city of 11 million people at the centre of a v...

Jan 31, 2020

Fever alarms, paranoia as masked passengers fly from China

NEW YORK - In Bangladesh's biggest airport, workers held up digital thermometers to passengers' heads. A beeping alarm sounded as a passenger walking through a thermal scanner registered a fever. On a...

Jan 31, 2020