Category Archives: World
AP FACT CHECK: Trump cites questionable job approval rating
WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump is pointing to a 50 per cent job approval rating that may not fully comport with reality. TRUMP: “Thank you to Rasmussen for the honest polling. Just hit 50%,...
Apr 04, 2018
Plowing a path: State to buy farms to help new farmers
PROVIDENCE, R.I. - Rhode Island is launching a program to buy farms and sell them to new farmers for dirt cheap. A farm bought for $500,000, for example, could then be sold for $100,000. It is an unco...
Apr 04, 2018
Congress' challenge: How to tame industry giant Facebook
WASHINGTON - Facebook isn’t just a company. It’s a behemoth, with 2.1 billion monthly users, $40 billion in revenue and more than 25,000 employees worldwide. And that leaves Washington wit...
Apr 04, 2018
New York house with celebrity-filled past is on the market
NYACK, N.Y. - A house that’s been a celebrity magnet for decades is on the market in the New York City suburbs. According to the Journal News , actress Helen Hayes and her husband, playwright Ch...
Apr 04, 2018
MLK honoured as thousands march to 'keep the dream going'
MEMPHIS, Tenn. - With thoughts on the past and eyes to the future, thousands marched and sang civil rights songs Wednesday to honour the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., the “apostle of nonviolence&...
Apr 04, 2018
Trump signs proclamation directing troops to secure border
WASHINGTON - Asserting the situation had reached “a point of crisis,” President Donald Trump on Wednesday signed a proclamation directing the deployment of the National Guard to the U.S.-M...
Apr 04, 2018
California proposal would limit when officers can open fire
SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Several lawmakers and the family of a 22-year-old unarmed black man who was fatally shot by police proposed Tuesday that California become the first state to significantly restric...
Apr 04, 2018
As Oklahoma teachers strike drags on, frustration mounts
OKLAHOMA CITY - When Oklahoma Republicans finally passed a massive tax hike for hundreds of millions of new dollars for public schools and teacher pay raises, they thought they would get a thank you. ...
Apr 04, 2018
Anticipating Trump's next move, aides prep Iran deal pullout
WASHINGTON - Anticipating an unpredictable president’s next moves, U.S. officials have started actively planning for the likelihood that Donald Trump will announce next month that the U.S. is wi...
Apr 04, 2018
US museum stalls Hiroshima exhibit over nuke weapon ban push
A museum in Los Alamos, New Mexico - a once-secret New Mexico city that developed the atomic bomb which helped end World War II - has put an exhibit from Japan on hold because of its theme of abolishi...
Apr 04, 2018