Category Archives: World
Congress urged to fully open banks to marijuana industry
LOS ANGELES - Bank officials and others urged Congress on Wednesday to fully open the doors of the U.S. banking system to the legal marijuana industry, a change that supporters say would reduce crime ...
Feb 13, 2019
Google to invest $13 billion in new US offices, data centres
SAN FRANCISCO - Google said today it will invest more than $13 billion in building data centres and offices across the U.S in 2019. The Mountain View, California-based company emphasized its new locat...
Feb 13, 2019
"Empire" actor expresses anger over attack, public's doubt
CHICAGO - Actor Jussie Smollett says he’s “pissed off” that some have doubted his claims about being attacked outside his Chicago apartment last month. The actor who stars in the Fox...
Feb 13, 2019
FEMA head Brock Long, investigated over vehicle use, resigns
WASHINGTON - The head of the Federal Emergency Management Agency resigned Wednesday after a two-year tenure in which he managed the response to historic wildfires and major hurricanes but was dogged b...
Feb 13, 2019
Reports: British Bolshoi dancer suspected of having cocaine
MOSCOW - Russian news reports say police in Moscow suspect a British dancer with the renowned Bolshoi Ballet of possessing cocaine. Channel REN TV said officers stopped Oscar Frame in the Russian capi...
Feb 13, 2019
Lawyer says rapper 21 Savage freed from immigration custody
OCILLA, Ga. - A lawyer for 21 Savage says the Grammy-nominated rapper has been released from an immigration detention centre in south Georgia. Immigration lawyer Tia Smith said in an email that the ra...
Feb 13, 2019
Bus plunges into ravine in North Macedonia, killing 14
A bus carrying workers in North Macedonia crashed into a ravine outside the capital of Skopje Wednesday, killing 14 people and injuring about 30, officials said. Venko Filipce, the newly renamed Europ...
Feb 13, 2019
Cosby vows no remorse, even if he sits in prison 10 years
PHILADELPHIA - Bill Cosby says he “will never have remorse” for the sexual encounter that sent him to prison because he considers his conviction the work of “a low-life district atto...
Feb 13, 2019
NASA about to pull plug on Mars rover, silent for 8 months
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - NASA is trying one last time to contact its record-setting Mars rover Opportunity, before calling it quits. The rover has been silent for eight months, victim of one of the most...
Feb 13, 2019
Trombonists who died in 2018 honoured with music in Cleveland
COLUMBUS, Ohio - The late American jazz great Urbie Green and three other accomplished trombonists who died in 2018 will be remembered Saturday at a musical event in Cleveland. Living trombone stars J...
Feb 13, 2019