Category Archives: World
'Swamp People' producer to pay $282K in OT to employees
ALBANY, N.Y. - New York state authorities say the producer of such cable TV reality series as “Swamp People” and “Miami Ink” will pay $282,000 to employees who weren’t pa...
Jun 28, 2018
Minnesota approves Enbridge Energy Line 3 pipeline project
ST. PAUL, Minn. - Minnesota regulators on Thursday approved Enbridge Energy’s proposal to replace its aging Line 3 oil pipeline, angering opponents who say the project threatens pristine areas a...
Jun 28, 2018
Police called suspect in newsroom rampage no threat in 2013
ANNAPOLIS, Md. - The man accused of killing five people at a Maryland newspaper was investigated five years ago for a barrage of menacing tweets against staff members, but a detective concluded he was...
Jun 28, 2018
Judge temporarily blocks abortion reporting rule in Indiana
INDIANAPOLIS - A federal judge on Thursday temporarily blocked a new Indiana law’s requirement that medical providers report detailed patient information to the state if they treat women for com...
Jun 28, 2018
Facing Cuomo, Nixon looks to Ocasio-Cortez win
ALBANY, N.Y. - Up against an entrenched incumbent with a $30 million war chest, Cynthia Nixon is taking inspiration from Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s long-shot victory in Tuesday’s Democrati...
Jun 28, 2018
Slavery scholar Willie Lee Rose dead at 91
NEW YORK - A groundbreaking scholar on slavery and Reconstruction has died. Willie Lee Rose was 91. Rose died in her sleep June 20 at a Baltimore retirement community, Johns Hopkins University told Th...
Jun 28, 2018
Atlantic City welcomes back 2 shuttered casinos
ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. - Movie stars lent an air of celebrity glitz to a gritty seaside gambling resort Thursday as Atlantic City reclaimed two of its shuttered casinos, and more than 6,000 of the 11,000...
Jun 28, 2018
Meek Mill's attorneys resume effort to get judge removed
PHILADELPHIA - Attorneys for Meek Mill are asking the Pennsylvania Supreme Court to remove a Philadelphia judge from his case days after she denied his new trial request. In a filing late Wednesday, t...
Jun 28, 2018
Time names the most influential people on the internet
NEW YORK - Kylie Jenner, Kanye West, Rihanna, Busy Philipps and Matt Drudge have landed on Time magazine’s roundup of the most influential people on the internet. So did someone with 53 million ...
Jun 28, 2018
Pakistan says it will be placed back on financial watch list
ISLAMABAD - Pakistan’s Foreign Ministry says the country will be placed back on a financial watch list by a global task force to give it more time to take steps against terror financing and mone...
Jun 28, 2018