Category Archives: World
Summit set, detainees free; Trump sees NKorea 'big success'
WASHINGTON - Envisioning “a very special moment for world peace,” President Donald Trump announced Thursday he will meet North Korea’s Kim Jong Un for highly anticipated summit talks...
May 10, 2018
Insight or influence? Trump attorney's business scrutinized
WASHINGTON - Already under investigation for a payment to a porn star, President Donald Trump’s longtime personal attorney is facing intensifying legal and ethical scrutiny for selling his Trump...
May 10, 2018
CIA nominee says she doesn't believe torture works
WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump’s CIA nominee said during her confirmation hearing that she doesn’t believe torture works as an interrogation technique and that her “strong moral...
May 10, 2018
GOP immigration moderates seek to force House votes on issue
WASHINGTON - Republicans with moderate views on immigration defied party leaders and took steps Wednesday toward forcing campaign-season House votes on the issue. One top maverick said they had enough...
May 10, 2018
Behind the scenes of Trump's decision to abandon Iran deal
WASHINGTON - It was all there on paper in black and white, down to the precise number of centrifuges: the terms of a potential “fix” that President Donald Trump had demanded for the United...
May 10, 2018
Could disgraced attorney general be charged with a crime?
NEW YORK - Detailed accusations that state Attorney General Eric Schneiderman abused women were enough to force him to resign, but are they enough to charge him with a crime? Investigators say they ar...
May 10, 2018
Google suspends all ads related to Irish abortion referendum
LONDON - Google is suspending all advertising connected to Ireland’s abortion referendum as part of moves to protect “election integrity,” the company announced Wednesday. The move c...
May 10, 2018
Australian, 104, dies in assisted suicide in Switzerland
LIESTAL, Switzerland - A 104-year-old Australian biologist who drew international attention to his right-to-die case ended his life in Switzerland on Thursday, an advocacy group said. Exit Internation...
May 10, 2018
Europe faces a wave of freed terror convicts. Is it ready?
PARIS - Over the next two years, terrorism convicts will walk free from European prisons by the dozens - more than 200 inmates who largely formed the first wave of jihadis streaming to Syria and Iraq,...
May 10, 2018
UK apologizes for role in Libyans' kidnapping and torture
LONDON - Britain acknowledged Thursday that its intelligence agents played a role in the kidnapping and torture of an opponent of the late Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi and the man’s wife - a ra...
May 10, 2018