Category Archives: World
Obama's memoir sells more than 725,000 copies
NEW YORK - First day sales for Michelle Obama’s “Becoming” topped 725,000 copies, making it one of the year’s biggest debuts. Crown Publishing told The Associated Press on Frid...
Nov 16, 2018
VW wants to storm car market with cheaper electric model
FRANKFURT - Volkswagen intends to invest 44 billion euros ($50 billion) in the electric and autonomous car technologies expected to reshape the industry - and said it would make battery-powered vehicl...
Nov 16, 2018
Spirit Awards heap noms on 'Eighth Grade,' 'First Reformed'
NEW YORK - The 34th Film Independent Spirit Awards showered nominations on Bo Burnham’s coming-of-age tale “Eighth Grade,” Lynne Ramsay’s existentialist thriller “You Wer...
Nov 16, 2018
Trump says written responses go to Mueller team next week
WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump says he “very easily” answered written questions from special counsel Robert Mueller, though he speculated that the questions had been “tricked up...
Nov 16, 2018
William Goldman, Oscar winner for 'Butch Cassidy,' has died
NEW YORK - William Goldman, the screenwriter and Hollywood wise man who won Academy Awards for “Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid” and “All the President’s Men” and summ...
Nov 16, 2018
Golden Globes group gives $300,000 to wildfire victims
LOS ANGELES - The Hollywood Foreign Press Association is giving $300,000 to help the victims of California’s deadly wildfires. The organization best known for creating and organizing the Golden ...
Nov 16, 2018
DeVos proposes overhaul to campus sexual misconduct rules
Education Secretary Betsy DeVos on Friday proposed a major overhaul to the way colleges and universities handle sexual misconduct complaints, adding protections for students accused of assault and har...
Nov 16, 2018
US industrial production ticks up 0.1 per cent in October
WASHINGTON - U.S. industry expanded slightly in October, with manufacturing growth offsetting declines in mining and utility production. Industrial production ticked up a modest 0.1 per cent, the fift...
Nov 16, 2018
Paradise is reduced to ash, but memories survive the flames
PARADISE, Calif. - There’s a sweet legend about this town: On a blazing summer day in the 1850s, a lumber mill crew with a wagon and ox took a break under a grove of tall evergreens. The air was...
Nov 16, 2018
Last Khmer Rouge leaders guilty of genocide, get life terms
PHNOM PENH, Cambodia - The last surviving leaders of the Khmer Rouge regime that ruled Cambodia in the 1970s, when their reign of terror was responsible for the deaths of an estimated 1.7 million peop...
Nov 16, 2018