Category Archives: World
Correction: Native American March-Videos story
DETROIT - In stories Jan. 19 and 20 about an encounter between a Native American and a Kentucky student, The Associated Press reported that Indian Country Today said the Native American, Nathan Philli...
Jan 21, 2019
Reinvented legacy: Nazi's paintings fund foundation for Jews
BERLIN - When Hilde Schramm inherited several paintings collected by her father, Hitler’s chief architect and Armaments Minister Albert Speer, she was only sure of one thing: she didn’t wa...
Jan 21, 2019
Kamala Harris opens presidential bid
WASHINGTON - Kamala Harris, a first-term senator and former California attorney general known for her rigorous questioning of President Donald Trump’s nominees, entered the Democratic presidenti...
Jan 21, 2019
Indian police investigate suspected people smuggling to NZ
NEW DELHI - Police in southern India are investigating a suspected attempt to illegally transport scores of Indians on an overcrowded boat to New Zealand. The additional superintendent of police in Ke...
Jan 21, 2019
Spanish rescuers battle tough conditions to reach toddler
MADRID - Spanish officials say rescuers are making slow progress in exceptionally difficult conditions to reach a 2-year-old boy who fell into a narrow, deep borehole in the countryside eight days ago...
Jan 21, 2019
Trump's shutdown solution hangs in limbo
WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump’s proposal to break through the budget deadlock appeared to be gaining little traction Monday, as another missed paycheque loomed for hundreds of thousands of...
Jan 21, 2019
Bon Jovi's restaurant gives free meal to furloughed workers
RED BANK, N.J. - A restaurant owned by musician and New Jersey native Jon Bon Jovi is providing free meals to local government workers and their families during the federal government shutdown. JBJ So...
Jan 21, 2019
Frigid air, high winds sweep the Northeast; at least 7 dead
CONCORD, N.H. - Falling temperatures replaced the weekend’s falling snow Monday as bitter cold and gusty winds swept across the eastern United States. The National Weather Service had forecast t...
Jan 21, 2019
Former CIA officer portrayed in 'Argo' film dead at 78
FREDERICK, Md. - A former CIA technical operations officer who helped rescue six U.S. diplomats from Iran in 1980 and was portrayed by Ben Affleck in the film “Argo,” has died. He was 78. ...
Jan 21, 2019
Israel increasingly goes public with its strikes in Syria
JERUSALEM - Israel on Monday claimed responsibility for a series of airstrikes on Iranian military targets in Syria, drifting further away from its longstanding policy of playing down or covering up i...
Jan 21, 2019