Category Archives: World
Judge sets hearing behind closed doors in Manafort case
WASHINGTON - A federal judge said Friday she will hold a hearing behind closed doors to determine whether former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort intentionally lied to investigators, including ab...
Jan 25, 2019
Gunman kills 3 men in separate shootings, then kills himself
STATE COLLEGE, Pa. - A gunman opened fire at a hotel bar near Penn State’s main campus, killing two men and wounding a woman, broke into a stranger’s house and fatally shot the 83-year-old...
Jan 25, 2019
Icy blast reminds of 2014 'polar vortex,' with worst to come
FARGO, N.D. - An arctic blast spread painful cold across the Midwest on Friday, closing schools, opening warming centres and even intimidating ice fishermen in a taste of the even more dangerous weath...
Jan 25, 2019
Pope brings World Youth Day to prisoners, hears confessions
LAS GARZAS, Panama - Pope Francis on Friday brought World Youth Day to Panama’s juvenile delinquents, celebrating an emotional penitential liturgy inside the country’s main youth prison si...
Jan 25, 2019
Dueling Venezuela leaders dig in defending presidency claims
CARACAS, Venezuela - The Venezuelan opposition leader who has declared himself interim president vowed Friday he would remain on the streets until the South American country has a transitional governm...
Jan 25, 2019
Trump's retreat: Shutdown ends without wall money, for now
WASHINGTON - Submitting to mounting pressure amid growing disruption, President Donald Trump agreed to a deal Friday to reopen the government for three weeks, backing down from his demand that Congres...
Jan 25, 2019
Video shows brutality of knife attack on helpless inmates
COLUMBUS, Ohio - A newly released video shows the brutality of an Ohio inmate’s knife attack on four other prisoners who were handcuffed to a table and unable to defend themselves. The video obt...
Jan 25, 2019
Trump ally Stone charged with lying about hacked emails
WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump’s confidant Roger Stone has been charged with lying about his pursuit of Russian-hacked emails damaging to Hillary Clinton’s 2016 election bid. Prosecut...
Jan 25, 2019
Spanish boy found dead in borehole after dire 13-day search
MADRID - Rescue crews in Spain early Saturday found the body of a 2-year-old boy, whose fall into a deep borehole 13 days earlier prompted a complex and heart-wrenching search-and-rescue operation tha...
Jan 25, 2019
Sundance: Documentary dives deep into the fraud of Theranos
PARK CITY, Utah - Oscar-winning filmmaker Alex Gibney has always been interested in the psychology of fraud and self-deception. So when HBO CEO Richard Plepler and Graydon Carter proposed that he look...
Jan 24, 2019