Category Archives: World
Tesla to close stores to reduce costs for $35,000 Model 3
SAN FRANCISCO - Tesla will only sell its electric cars online as it accelerates its cost cutting so it can realize its long-running goal of selling a mass-market sedan for $35,000. The change announce...
Feb 28, 2019
Amazon, wrestling with counterfeits, seeks to crack down
NEW YORK - The Carhartt hoodie that Laura Serghe bought two years ago looked phoney. And then, what was supposed to be an Eastpak backpack, arrived recently with messy stitching and a label inside tha...
Feb 28, 2019
SpaceX debuts new crew capsule in crucial test flight
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - SpaceX closes in on human spaceflight with this weekend’s debut of a new capsule designed for astronauts. The six-day test flight will be real in every regard, beginning w...
Feb 28, 2019
Kevin Spacey lawyers seek accuser's cellphone, other records
NANTUCKET, Mass. - Attorneys for Kevin Spacey are seeking surveillance footage, text messages and other records they say they need to defend the disgraced actor against accusations that he groped a yo...
Feb 28, 2019
Longtime New Orleans meteorologist Carl Arredondo signs off
NEW ORLEANS - After a decades-long career as a TV weather forecaster, meteorologist Carl Arredondo is signing off Friday due to vision problems. Arredondo announced Feb. 19 that he had a rare genetic ...
Feb 28, 2019
Huawei pleads not guilty to trade secrets charges in Seattle
SEATTLE - The Chinese tech giant Huawei pleaded not guilty Thursday to U.S. trade-theft charges in a case that has heightened a trade dispute between the world’s two largest economies. The pleas...
Feb 28, 2019
Peter Frampton's doctors hope to highlight rare disease
BALTIMORE - Doctors at Johns Hopkins University hope to raise awareness and funds for research following famed guitarist Peter Frampton’s announcement that he has a rare muscular disease. Frampt...
Feb 28, 2019
German town defends seizing family's pet, selling it on eBay
BERLIN - Officials in Germany are defending their decision to seize an indebted family’s pet pug and sell it on eBay, saying the move was a last resort because authorities were unable to find an...
Feb 28, 2019
Patriots owner pleads not guilty to prostitution charges
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. - New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft has pleaded not guilty to two counts of misdemeanour solicitation of prostitution in a Florida case, according to court documents releas...
Feb 28, 2019
NY poised to join 41 states in criminalizing revenge porn
ALBANY, N.Y. - Lawmakers in New York voted to join 41 other states in criminalizing revenge porn Thursday, passing legislation that would make it a misdemeanour to disseminate explicit photos of a per...
Feb 28, 2019