Category Archives: World
Saints owner Gayle Benson pays off $100K in Walmart layaways
New Orleans Saints and Pelicans owner Gayle Benson has paid off nearly $100,000 worth of layaway orders at a New Orleans Walmart. News outlets reported Tuesday that Benson has paid off more than 400 o...
Dec 05, 2018
Man says he urinated on Kellogg's cereal conveyor belt
MEMPHIS, Tenn. - A Tennessee man faces up to three years in prison for urinating on a Kellogg’s cereal conveyor belt at a Memphis facility. News outlets report 49-year-old Gregory Stanton pleade...
Dec 05, 2018
AP source: GOP committee suffers midterm election email hack
WASHINGTON - Thousands of emails were stolen from aides to the National Republican Congressional Committee during the 2018 midterm campaign, a major breach exposing vulnerabilities that have kept cybe...
Dec 05, 2018
AP FACT CHECK: Economists say Trump off on tariffs' impact
WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump promised on Twitter that tariffs would maximize the country’s economic heft and “MAKE AMERICA RICH AGAIN.” Almost all economists say the president...
Dec 05, 2018
With 11 names left, search for wildfire missing winds down
SAN FRANCISCO - The search for people unaccounted for after the deadliest U.S. wildfire in at least a century is winding down in Northern California, with just 11 names left on a fluctuating list that...
Dec 05, 2018
A football weekend turns to tragedy for Tennessee all-stars
MEMPHIS, Tenn. - It was a fun and competitive weekend for a young group of all-stars as they visited Texas and represented Memphis, Tennessee, in a weekend football tournament. The players, some ventu...
Dec 05, 2018
Some Africans are studying their way out of prison
NAIROBI, Kenya - Morris Kaberia was on Kenya’s death row and feeling suicidal when he came across a program that eventually set him free. The former police officer had been imprisoned for violen...
Dec 05, 2018
In Brazil backlands, termites built millions of dirt mounds
PALMEIRAS, Brazil - Roy Funch, an American botanist who has lived and worked in Brazil’s hardscrabble northeast for decades, long looked at huge cone-shaped mounds of mud in the distance and won...
Dec 05, 2018
Brazilian consul: Arrested Ghosn is healthy, wants thrillers
TOKYO - The former Nissan chairman Carlos Ghosn, who was arrested in Japan on suspicion of underreporting his income, seems prepared to fight out his case and has asked for thriller books, according t...
Dec 05, 2018
'Crazy Rich Asians' fails to click with Chinese audiences
BEIJING - Chinese audiences aren’t exactly going nuts over the U.S. box office hit “Crazy Rich Asians,” despite its all-Asian cast and theme of rising Asian prosperity. Industry data...
Dec 05, 2018