Category Archives: World
Author Alice Walker criticized for support of writer's book
NEW YORK - Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Alice Walker and The New York Times are drawing fire after she praised an author who critics say expresses anti-Semitism and is a conspiracy theorist. In an in...
Dec 18, 2018
Zimbabwe inquiry finds army, police killed 6 during protest
HARARE, Zimbabwe - Zimbabwean soldiers and police used “unjustified and disproportionate” force to kill 6 people during election protests in August, according to an official report release...
Dec 18, 2018
Trump Foundation reaches deal to dissolve amid lawsuit
NEW YORK - President Donald Trump’s charitable foundation reached a deal Tuesday to go out of business, even as Trump continues to fight allegations he misused its assets to resolve business dis...
Dec 18, 2018
Trump administration moves to ban bump stocks
WASHINGTON - The Trump administration Tuesday banned bump stocks, the firearm attachments that allow semi-automatic weapons to fire like machine-guns and were used during the worst mass shooting in mo...
Dec 18, 2018
UK ramps up 'no-deal' Brexit preparations amid impasse
LONDON - Britain’s government ramped up preparations Tuesday for the possibility that the country could leave the European Union in 101 days without a divorce deal - putting soldiers on standby ...
Dec 18, 2018
Shirley MacLaine to receive AARP Movies for Grownups honour
LOS ANGELES - Actor Shirley MacLaine will receive AARP the Magazine’s lifetime achievement honour at the Movies for Grownups Awards next year. The magazine announced Tuesday that MacLaine will a...
Dec 18, 2018
US home construction rose last month, led by apartments
WASHINGTON - U.S. developers broke ground on more homes last month, but the increase occurred entirely in apartments. The construction of new single-family houses fell. The Commerce Department said Tu...
Dec 18, 2018
Judge delays Flynn sentencing, 'not hiding disgust' at crime
WASHINGTON - A federal judge Tuesday abruptly postponed the sentencing of President Donald Trump’s first national security adviser, Michael Flynn, declaring himself disgusted and disdainful of F...
Dec 18, 2018
For Trump, the economy is a potential 2020 storm cloud
WASHINGTON - Forget Robert Mueller. The greatest threat to President Donald Trump’s re-election bid may not be the slew of investigations closing in on his Oval Office but a possible economic sl...
Dec 18, 2018
Shutdown talk recedes after White House eases wall threat
WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump and leaders in Congress appeared to be pulling back Tuesday from a government shutdown over his $5 billion request for border wall funds, with the first signs of mo...
Dec 18, 2018