Category Archives: World
Pollution controls help red spruce rebound from acid rain
STOWE, Vt. - The grey trunks of red spruce trees killed by acid rain once heavily scarred the mountain forests of the Northeast. Now those forests are mostly green, with the crowns of red spruce peeki...
Jul 11, 2018
New San Francisco mayor vows to leave no resident behind
SAN FRANCISCO - The first black female mayor of San Francisco made history Wednesday as she took the oath of office and outlined an ambitious to-do list to make a city known for immense wealth but als...
Jul 11, 2018
Facebook faces U.K. fine over its privacy scandal
LONDON - Facebook is facing its first financial penalty for allowing the data-mining firm Cambridge Analytica to forage through the personal data of millions of unknowing Facebook users. A U.K. govern...
Jul 11, 2018
Sarah Palin claims Sacha Baron Cohen duped her for talk
LOS ANGELES - Sarah Palin says she was “duped.” The former Republican vice-presidential candidate says she fell victim to British comedian Sacha Baron Cohen during an interview for his upc...
Jul 11, 2018
Beachgoers beware: Hurricane Chris sending risky surf ashore
MIAMI - Forecasters say Atlantic Ocean beachgoers should be wary of heavy surf and life-threatening rip-currents this week as Hurricane Chris swirls off the U.S. East Coast. At 11 a.m. EDT Wednesday, ...
Jul 11, 2018
Parents of toddler who killed himself with found gun charged
AUGUSTA, Ga. - The mother and father of a 4-year-old Georgia boy who found a loaded gun and fatally shot himself have been indicted. The Augusta Chronicle reports that a Richmond County grand jury ind...
Jul 11, 2018
Neo-Nazi trial puts spotlight on fate of migrants in Germany
MUNICH - A German court found the main defendant guilty on Wednesday in a string of neo-Nazi killings more than a decade ago - a high-profile trial that raised fresh questions about the treatment of m...
Jul 11, 2018
China vows retaliation for $200 billion US tariff threat
BEIJING - China’s government vowed Wednesday to take “firm and forceful measures” as the U.S. threatened to expand tariffs to thousands of Chinese imports like fish sticks, apples an...
Jul 11, 2018
With V-for-Victory sign, rescued Thai boys celebrate freedom
MAE SAI, Thailand - As ecstatic relatives watched and waved from behind a glass barrier, the 12 boys and their soccer coach rescued from deep within a flooded cave in Thailand made the V-for-Victory s...
Jul 10, 2018
Firefighter killed in gas explosion, fire near Madison
SUN PRAIRIE, Wis. - A massive natural gas explosion killed a firefighter and levelled portions of a city block in a southern Wisconsin community, including a bar the firefighter owned, authorities sai...
Jul 10, 2018