Category Archives: World
Child experts file FTC complaint against Facebook kids' app
NEW YORK - Children’s and public health advocacy groups say Facebook’s kid-centric messaging app violates federal law by collecting kids’ personal information without getting verifia...
Oct 03, 2018
Irish regulator opens Facebook data breach investigation
LONDON - Ireland’s data regulator has launched an investigation of Facebook over a recent data breach that allowed hackers access to 50 million accounts. The probe could potentially cost Faceboo...
Oct 03, 2018
US fishermen lose quota in new fishing pact with Canada
PORTLAND, Maine - American fishermen are losing thousands of pounds of valuable fishing quota under a new catch share agreement with Canada. Fishermen from the U.S. and Canada seek haddock, cod and fl...
Oct 03, 2018
A year after Weinstein, Hollywood is still soul-searching
NEW YORK - After Rashida Jones exited Pixar’s “Toy Story 4” in 2017 she noted that the studio, after 25 years in business, had not made a single feature film directed by a woman, cal...
Oct 03, 2018
Van Damme son gets probation term in Arizona knife incident
PHOENIX - A son of actor Jean-Claude Van Damme has been sentenced to 18 months of probation after pleading guilty to disorderly conduct for holding his roommate at knifepoint at their apartment in sub...
Oct 03, 2018
Backstreet Boys cancel Oklahoma show where fans were hurt
THACKERVILLE, Okla. - The Backstreet Boys won’t be rescheduling an Oklahoma concert that was postponed after fans were hurt when a storm damaged the venue where the band was supposed to perform....
Oct 03, 2018
Jimmy Kimmel to open comedy club in Las Vegas in 2019
LAS VEGAS - Jimmy Kimmel will see a dream come true when he opens a comedy club next spring in Las Vegas where he will make regular appearances and give up-and-coming comics a chance to hone their tal...
Oct 03, 2018
Peru court overturns pardon of ex-leader Fujimori
LIMA, Peru - Peru’s Supreme Court on Wednesday overturned a medical pardon for former President Alberto Fujimori and ordered the strongman be returned to jail to serve out a long sentence for hu...
Oct 03, 2018
Emergency alert test sounds off on mobile phones nationwide
WASHINGTON - Electronic devices across the United States sounded off Wednesday as the Federal Emergency Management Agency conducted its first-ever national wireless emergency alert test. The tone went...
Oct 03, 2018
Southern Arizona dam holding as water recedes
PHOENIX - A southern Arizona dam that had been at risk of breaking and flooding a small village held steady Wednesday as the lake behind it receded after being swollen with runoff from the remnants of...
Oct 03, 2018