Category Archives: World
CNN sues Trump, demanding return of Acosta to White House
NEW YORK - CNN took its access battle against the Trump administration to court on Tuesday, demanding the reinstatement of correspondent Jim Acosta’s White House credentials because their revoca...
Nov 13, 2018
A universe of flawed heroes: Stan Lee was ahead of his time
It became easy, in recent years, to dismiss him as the wisecracking grandpa of the American comic book, a past-his-prime gimmick who cameoed alongside Earth’s angstiest superheroes in the high-g...
Nov 13, 2018
Obama stops at former high school; speaks with students
CHICAGO - Michelle Obama visited her old Chicago high school and held a roundtable discussion with some 20 students who had been given excerpts from the former first lady’s new memoir. Monday...
Nov 13, 2018
National Grid to use 'noise cannon' to scare away crows
NORTH ADAMS, Mass. - After all else failed, National Grid is bringing in a cannon to scare away the hundreds of crows that have been hanging around an electrical substation in Massachusetts. Don’...
Nov 13, 2018
All school kidnapping captives freed, says Cameroon leader
YAOUNDE, Cameroon - All students and staff abducted more than a week ago from a school in Cameroon’s restive North West region have been freed, a leader of the Presbyterian church said Tuesday. ...
Nov 13, 2018
Grim calculus: Coroners search for those killed in wildfire
PARADISE, Calif. - The blue of an unfurled body bag has become a gut-wrenching splash of colour in this apocalyptic landscape as pressure mounts to account for the hundreds of missing people after a w...
Nov 13, 2018
Sheriff: California wildfire's death toll rises to 48
PARADISE, Calif. - Ernest Foss was a musician who gave lessons out of his home when he lived in San Francisco, where an amplifier that ran the length of a wall served as the family’s living room...
Nov 13, 2018
Cease-fire takes hold between Israel and Hamas
GAZA, Palestinian Territory - Hamas and other militant groups said Tuesday they had accepted an Egyptian-brokered cease-fire to end two days of intense fighting with Israel that had pushed the sworn e...
Nov 13, 2018
After 17 years, many Afghans blame US for unending war
KABUL - When U.S. forces and their Afghan allies rode into Kabul in November 2001 they were greeted as liberators. But after 17 years of war, the Taliban have retaken half the country, security is wor...
Nov 13, 2018
Why wait? Democrats openly flirt with 2020 White House bids
WASHINGTON - In the days after the midterm election, New Jersey Sen. Cory Booker worked the phones with Democratic luminaries in Iowa. Montana Gov. Steve Bullock courted high-dollar donors in New York...
Nov 13, 2018