Category Archives: World
House struggles to unite behind bills to stem border crisis
WASHINGTON - Speaker Paul Ryan is pushing ahead with votes on rival House GOP immigration bills, but neither appears to have enough support for passage, prompting President Donald Trump to take execut...
Jun 20, 2018
Many in Puerto Rico still under tarps as storm threat looms
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico - Hurricane Maria ripped away part of the steel roof from Carmen Lidia Torres Mercado’s home in the Puerto Rican capital. Nine months later, she is still relying on a blue ...
Jun 20, 2018
Maddow breaks down reading AP story on 'tender age' shelters
NEW YORK - MSNBC political commentator Rachel Maddow broke down while trying to read an exclusive Associated Press story about babies and toddlers taken from their parents at the southern border and s...
Jun 20, 2018
Lewandowski on girl with Down syndrome: 'Wah wah'
WASHINGTON - A former campaign manager for Donald Trump has created a stir by dismissing a story about a girl with Down syndrome with a sarcastic “Wah wah.” Corey Lewandowski appeared Tues...
Jun 20, 2018
Prosecutors decline assault charges against Scott Baio
LOS ANGELES - Prosecutors have declined to file charges against Scott Baio stemming from allegations by his former “Charles in Charge” co-star that he sexually assaulted her. The Los Angel...
Jun 20, 2018
Mandalay Bay hotel in Vegas floods after water main break
LAS VEGAS - A water main broke Tuesday flooding a convention centre in the Mandalay Bay hotel in Las Vegas. The Las Vegas Review Journal reports that the break dumped water onto the first floor of the...
Jun 20, 2018
Judge disputes California aimed to hinder border enforcement
SACRAMENTO, Calif. - A U.S. judge said Wednesday that he was not convinced California enacted protections for immigrants in the country illegally in an effort to interfere with federal immigration enf...
Jun 20, 2018
Sister led California police to shackled, starving siblings
RIVERSIDE, Calif. - In a plea to a police dispatcher to “help my sisters,” a 17-year-old girl in a childlike, quivering voice detailed years of abuse she and 12 siblings suffered in a squa...
Jun 20, 2018
Chicago teen eligible for parole next April in 2014 killing
CHICAGO - A Chicago teenager who pleaded guilty to fatally shooting another 14-year-old girl in a street fight in 2014 that escalated from a Facebook feud over a boy will be eligible for parole in Apr...
Jun 20, 2018
Fixing a massive NYC plumbing leak, 55 stories underground
NEWBURGH, N.Y. - New York City is in the midst of a plumbing repair job of monumental proportions. Hard-hat workers are toiling deep underground, 55 stories beneath the Hudson River, to eliminate gush...
Jun 20, 2018