Category Archives: World
Gunman in California mass shooting showed warning signs
THOUSAND OAKS, Calif. - At first, the outlines of the mass shooter’s 28 years appeared unremarkable. Ian David Long enlisted in the Marines out of high school and married at 19. Within five year...
Nov 20, 2018
3 men charged with planning mass killing in Australian city
CANBERRA, Australia - Three men inspired by the Islamic State group were charged on Tuesday with planning a mass-casualty attack in Australia’s second-largest city, police said. The Australian c...
Nov 20, 2018
400 years later, natives who helped Pilgrims gain a voice
PLYMOUTH, Mass. - The seaside town where the Pilgrims came ashore in 1620 is gearing up for a 400th birthday bash, and everyone’s invited - especially the native people whose ancestors wound up ...
Nov 20, 2018
AP FACT CHECK: Trump book didn't foreshadow bin Laden attack
WASHINGTON - In an echo of his campaign rhetoric, President Donald Trump is back to portraying himself as the Paul Revere of the terrorism age - the one who told the country Osama bin Laden was coming...
Nov 20, 2018
Scientists work to save wild Puerto Rican parrot after Maria
EL YUNQUE, Puerto Rico - Biologists are trying to save the last of the endangered Puerto Rican parrots after more than half the population of the bright green birds with turquoise-tipped wings disappe...
Nov 20, 2018
A demand for a ring, an eruption of gunfire and 4 dead
CHICAGO - Moments before her ex-fiance fatally shot her in the parking lot of the hospital where she worked, a Chicago doctor called 911 to report that she had spotted the man and feared for her life,...
Nov 20, 2018
Russian challenge to chemical weapons watchdog rejected
BRUSSELS - The global chemical weapons watchdog’s initiative to apportion blame for poison gas and nerve agent attacks survived two institutional challenges from Russia on Tuesday and is set to ...
Nov 20, 2018
Kosovo's bid to join Interpol fails, in victory for Serbia
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates - Kosovo failed in its bid to join Interpol on Tuesday in a vote held during the international law enforcement organization’s annual general assembly in Dubai, dealin...
Nov 20, 2018
Scorsese feted at MoMA by friends De Niro, DiCaprio, Hill
NEW YORK - Hollywood heavyweights like Leonardo DiCaprio, Robert De Niro and Jonah Hill turned out to honour legendary director Martin Scorsese for both his cinematic influence and his efforts to pres...
Nov 19, 2018
Lawsuit continues against novelist Sparks, school he started
RALEIGH, N.C. - The former headmaster of a private Christian school founded by novelist Nicholas Sparks can continue to sue the school, the author and the foundation Sparks created to support the scho...
Nov 19, 2018