Category Archives: World
Former reality TV star gets 16 years after fatal DUI crash
VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. - A former reality TV star will serve 16 years in prison for killing a U.S. Coast Guard technician in a drunken wrong-way collision on a Virginia highway. News outlets reported tha...
Oct 10, 2018
After backlash, Amazon to boost pay for longtime workers
NEW YORK - Amazon, facing a backlash from longtime warehouse employees who say its $15 hourly minimum wage wouldn’t benefit them, will provide a bigger raise to those workers. The company said W...
Oct 10, 2018
EU says Brexit deal 'within reach' but work remains
BRUSSELS - The European Union’s chief Brexit negotiator said Wednesday that an agreement on Britain’s exit “is within reach,” if negotiations make progress before a summit next...
Oct 10, 2018
Refinery near national park avoids potential big roadblock
BISMARCK, N.D. - North Dakota regulators decided Wednesday that they don’t have authority to wade into a dispute over the site of an oil refinery being developed near Theodore Roosevelt National...
Oct 10, 2018
Senate Dems lose health care vote, hope it's campaign fodder
WASHINGTON - Senate Democrats briefly turned the chamber’s subject to health care Wednesday, just four days after lawmakers’ nasty war over confirming Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh...
Oct 10, 2018
Fast, furious: How Michael grew into a 155 mph monster
WASHINGTON - Moist air, warm waters in the Gulf of Mexico, and ideal wind patterns supercharged Hurricane Michael in the hours before it smacked Florida’s Panhandle. Hurricane Michael was barely...
Oct 10, 2018
Limousine service operator charged in crash that killed 20
COBLESKILL, N.Y. - A limousine service operator was charged Wednesday with criminally negligent homicide in a crash that killed 20 people, while police continued investigating what caused the wreck an...
Oct 10, 2018
US Treasury issues new rules on foreign investments
WASHINGTON - The Treasury Department issued new rules Wednesday on foreign investments into American companies that will give the government more power to block foreign transactions on national securi...
Oct 10, 2018
Ronald Reagan is waving to crowds again - as a hologram
SIMI VALLEY, Calif. - A smiling Ronald Reagan waves to a crowd from aboard a rail car during a 1984 campaign stop in a new hologram revealed Wednesday at the late president’s namesake library in...
Oct 10, 2018
Peru opposition leader Fujimori detained in corruption probe
LIMA, Peru - Former Peruvian presidential candidate Keiko Fujimori was detained on Wednesday as part of a money-laundering investigation, the latest political leader in the Andean nation to face scrut...
Oct 10, 2018