Category Archives: World
Insults and rancour: Dems risk treading on Trump's home field
NEW YORK - Political rancour over immigration boiled over into increasingly personal insults Monday, as President Donald Trump took a harsh shot at a prominent congresswoman’s intellect and Demo...
Jun 25, 2018
Kansas high court again orders state to boost school funding
TOPEKA, Kan. - The Kansas Supreme Court Monday ruled for the third time in two years that the state’s spending on public schools is inadequate despite an increase approved earlier this year, but...
Jun 25, 2018
Heather Locklear arrested for alleged attack on deputy, EMT
VENTURA, Calif. - Heather Locklear has been arrested on suspicion of fighting with first responders for the second time this year. Ventura County Sheriff’s Capt. Garo Kuredjian says Locklear was...
Jun 25, 2018
Tiffany Haddish, Kumail Nanjiani among film academy invitees
LOS ANGELES - The organization that bestows the Oscars is continuing to lean into its promise to make its ranks more diverse by inviting a record 928 new members representing 59 countries to join incl...
Jun 25, 2018
US seen backing away from Syria de-escalation enforcement
WASHINGTON - The Trump administration appears to be walking away from a pledge to enforce an arrangement to stabilize southwestern Syria as the Syrian military presses ahead with an offensive in the r...
Jun 25, 2018
Montana tribe can't account for $14.5 million
BILLINGS, Mont. - Montana’s Crow Indian Tribe has been unable to account for $14.5 million it received for transportation programs, marking the second time in less than two years the tribe has b...
Jun 25, 2018
Correction: Marijuana Medicine story
WASHINGTON - In a story June 25 about a drug derived from marijuana, The Associated Press misspelled the first name of the director of the Mayo Clinic’s program for childhood epilepsy. She is Dr...
Jun 25, 2018
Lincoln Foundation's Marilyn Monroe dress sells for $50,000
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. - The Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library Foundation’s unusual ownership of a black dress once belonging to movie star Marilyn Monroe is ending as it sold over the weekend for...
Jun 25, 2018
Former Trump aide apologizes for 'cotton-picking' remark
WASHINGTON - A former campaign aide to President Donald Trump has apologized after he told a black man and fellow guest on a Fox News show he was out of his “cotton-picking mind.” David Bo...
Jun 25, 2018
US new-home sales climbed 6.7 per cent in May
WASHINGTON - Sales of new U.S. homes jumped 6.7 per cent in May, with purchases in the South accounting for all of the monthly gains. The Commerce Department said Monday that new homes sold last month...
Jun 25, 2018