Category Archives: World
Official: Shotgun in guitar case was used in school shooting
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. - A gunman carried a shotgun in a guitar case and opened fire Friday in a Florida high school, wounding one student before he was arrested on a day planned for a national classro...
Apr 20, 2018
Leak crackdown talk yields rare Comey, Trump agreement
WASHINGTON - James Comey and President Donald Trump seem to disagree on most everything, but the ex-FBI director’s memos show consensus on at least one thing: the need to hunt down leakers. The ...
Apr 20, 2018
AP-NORC Poll: Americans expect Russia tension will get worse
WASHINGTON - Americans largely fear the country’s relationship with Russia and China will get worse in the coming year, and despite signs of diplomatic progress with Kim Jong Un on nuclear weapo...
Apr 20, 2018
Pruitt reassigned lawmen as drivers, bodyguards in Oklahoma
OKLAHOMA CITY - As Oklahoma’s attorney general, Scott Pruitt assigned investigations agents from his office to be his driver and bodyguard, at times taking them on his frequent trips out of stat...
Apr 20, 2018
Trump lawyer told to file statement to slow porn star's suit
LOS ANGELES - President Donald Trump’s personal lawyer must declare in writing that his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination is jeopardized unless there’s a delay in legal proc...
Apr 20, 2018
Pompeo nomination picks up support of key Democratic senator
WASHINGTON - Mike Pompeo’s nomination for secretary of state received a boost Thursday with support from Democratic Sen. Heidi Heitkamp of North Dakota as Republicans warned lawmakers not to rej...
Apr 20, 2018
Alabama mail-bomber the oldest executed in US modern times
ATMORE, Ala. - An Alabama man convicted of sending mail bombs during a wave of Southern terror has been executed for killing a federal judge, becoming the oldest prisoner put to death in the U.S. in m...
Apr 20, 2018
Killing renews concerns for homeless Native Americans
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - The morning a homeless man was shot and killed in Albuquerque, police say surveillance videos showed him running down a street before sunrise, and then gunfire flash in the dark. R...
Apr 20, 2018
Russia: Trump promised to make reciprocal visit to Moscow
MOSCOW - Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin discussed the possibility of visiting each other’s country when the U.S. president rang his Russian counterpart last month to congratulate him on his re-...
Apr 20, 2018
Wells Fargo fined $1B for mortgage, auto lending abuses
NEW YORK - Wells Fargo will pay $1 billion to federal regulators to settle charges tied to misconduct at its mortgage and auto lending business, the latest punishment levied against the banking giant ...
Apr 20, 2018