Category Archives: World
Sudan's president orders release of all political prisoners
CAIRO - Sudan’s President Omar al-Bashir ordered the immediate release of all political prisoners on Tuesday as part of national dialogue efforts, the state news agency said. The report carried ...
Apr 10, 2018
Dems: No evidence of credible threats against EPA's Pruitt
WASHINGTON - Confidential security assessments in the Environmental Protection Agency show no evidence of specific, credible, physical threats against Administrator Scott Pruitt, despite claims that a...
Apr 10, 2018
Stock indexes rally as China's president eases trade fears
NEW YORK - Stocks jumped Tuesday after Chinese President Xi Jinping said Beijing would reduce tariffs on imported cars and improve intellectual property protection, steps that could ease trade tension...
Apr 10, 2018
Trump, May, Obamas not on guest list for royal wedding
LONDON - It will be friends and family, rather than politicians and world leaders, at Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s wedding next month. Kensington Palace says “it has been decided that ...
Apr 10, 2018
Day after Bolton takes over, homeland security aide is out
WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump’s homeland security adviser Thomas Bossert resigned Tuesday in the latest White House shakeup. White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said in a st...
Apr 10, 2018
Not a rumour: Lindsey Buckingham, Fleetwood Mac part ways
LOS ANGELES - Lindsey Buckingham will have to go his own way. The singer-guitarist is out of Fleetwood Mac. The band said in a statement Monday that Buckingham will not be on their new tour. The annou...
Apr 10, 2018
Markets Right Now: Stocks surge as China trade tensions ease
NEW YORK - The latest on developments in financial markets (all times local): 4 p.m. Major U.S. stock indexes are closing sharply higher after China’s leader sounded a conciliatory tone on trade...
Apr 10, 2018
Trump says all calm at White House, vents about Russia probe
WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump insisted that all was “very calm and calculated” at the White House, even as he vented Wednesday about the Russia probe, complained about Deputy Attorne...
Apr 10, 2018
Authorities release Austin bombing investigation documents
AUSTIN, Texas - Federal officials said Monday that the suspect in a series of fatal Austin package bombings used PVC pipe casing, a metal pipe and shrapnel in his attacks that killed two people and se...
Apr 10, 2018
Atlanta marks 50 years since King's funeral services
ATLANTA - Relatives of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. led more than 1,000 people on a march Monday in downtown Atlanta, where large crowds gathered 50 years earlier for the slain civil rights leader&...
Apr 10, 2018