Category Archives: World
Next US moon landing will be by private companies, not NASA
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - America’s next moon landing will be made by private companies - not NASA. NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine announced Thursday that nine U.S. companies will compete to de...
Nov 29, 2018
St. Louis officers accused of beating undercover colleague
ST. LOUIS - Three St. Louis police officers were indicted Thursday for allegedly beating an undercover colleague during a 2017 protest and, along with a fourth officer, conspiring to cover up the crim...
Nov 29, 2018
Viola Davis to star as Shirley Chisholm in Amazon project
LOS ANGELES - Oscar-winning actress Viola Davis is gearing up to play groundbreaking politician Shirley Chisholm in a film for Amazon Studios. The company said Thursday that Davis has signed on to sta...
Nov 29, 2018
Congo's Ebola outbreak now 2nd largest in history, WHO says
JOHANNESBURG - Congo’s deadly Ebola outbreak is now the second largest in history, behind the devastating West Africa outbreak that killed thousands a few years ago, the World Health Organizatio...
Nov 29, 2018
Merkel's plane makes emergency stop, tech issues reported
BERLIN - A plane carrying German Chancellor Angela Merkel to the Group of 20 meeting in Argentina was forced to make an unscheduled landing Thursday night in western Germany. A German military blog re...
Nov 29, 2018
University of Michigan to livestream Auschwitz music concert
ANN ARBOR, Mich. - The University of Michigan plans to livestream the performance of a musical arrangement not heard in concert since prisoners performed it at Auschwitz during World War II. Universit...
Nov 29, 2018
Fed officials express caution about pace of future hikes
WASHINGTON - Federal Reserve officials earlier this month appeared on track to raise its key interest rate again in December, but they signalled that the pace of future rate hikes might need to slow g...
Nov 29, 2018
'Roma' named best film by New York film critics
NEW YORK - In what may be the just the first of many such sweeps, Alfonso Cuaron’s masterful, memory-drenched drama “Roma” dominated the New York Film Critics Circle Awards on Thursd...
Nov 29, 2018
The Latest: "Serial" case draws spectators from far away
BALTIMORE - The Latest on appeals court hearing in high-profile case of Maryland man whose murder conviction chronicled in the “Serial” podcast (all times local): 1:40 p.m. The high-profil...
Nov 29, 2018
Writers' group won't honour prosecutor tied to Central Park 5
NEW YORK - The Mystery Writers of America withdrew a major honour Thursday from author Linda Fairstein after other writers condemned the ex-prosecutor’s role in New York’s notorious “...
Nov 29, 2018