Category Archives: World
Dem, GOP leaders get classified briefings on Russia probe
WASHINGTON - Republican and Democratic lawmakers huddled Thursday in classified briefings about the origins of the FBI investigation into Russia’s meddling in the 2016 presidential election, a h...
May 24, 2018
Trump: No immigration deal unless 'real wall,' good security
WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump says he opposes any immigration legislation that doesn’t include “a real wall” along the Mexican border and “very strong border security,...
May 24, 2018
Chaos of Las Vegas shooting promoted fears of wider attack
LAS VEGAS - Gunshots came so rapidly during the deadliest mass shooting in the nation’s modern history that one Las Vegas police officer feared he was facing a fully stocked assault team with ta...
May 24, 2018
Lava from Hawaii volcano enters ocean from 3 flows
HONOLULU - Lava entered the ocean from a third flow, marking the third week of a Hawaii volcano eruption that has opened up nearly two dozen vents in rural communities, destroyed dozens of buildings a...
May 24, 2018
Trump suggests NFL players who kneel shouldn't be in US
WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump praised an NFL policy banning kneeling during the “The Star-Spangled Banner,” saying that “maybe you shouldn’t be in the country” if y...
May 24, 2018
George Zimmerman tells court he's $2.5 million in debt
SANFORD, Fla. - The ex-neighbourhood watch volunteer who killed a black teen in Florida in 2012 says he’s $2.5 million in debt and has no income. George Zimmerman filed paperwork detailing his f...
May 24, 2018
California's West Hollywood declares 'Stormy Daniels Day'
WEST HOLLYWOOD, Calif. - Stormy Daniels: Freedom fighter or city icon? The porn actress who is suing President Donald Trump was praised Wednesday as a heroine in West Hollywood, California. About 100 ...
May 24, 2018
Spanish ruling party fined in major corruption case
MADRID - The conviction of more than two dozen Spanish businesspeople and officials in a major corruption scandal triggered political turmoil Thursday after the court ruled that the country’s go...
May 24, 2018
N. Korea demolishes nuclear test site as journalists watch
PUNGGYE-RI, Korea, Democratic People’s Republic Of - North Korean leader Kim Jong Un made good on his promise to demolish his country’s nuclear test site, which was formally closed in a se...
May 24, 2018
Probe: Missile that downed MH17 came from Russia-based unit
BUNNIK, Netherlands - The missile used to shoot down a Malaysia Airlines passenger jet over eastern Ukraine in 2014, killing all 298 aboard, belonged to a Russia-based military unit, an international ...
May 24, 2018