Category Archives: World
As whales fade, movement they spawned tries to keep up hope
PROVINCETOWN, Mass. - Regina Asmutis-Silvia, a biologist who has dedicated her career to saving right whales, is cleaning out a file cabinet from the early 1990s, and the documents inside tell a famil...
Apr 03, 2018
Suspect sings 'Cops' theme following chase and arrest
HAWORTH, N.J. - A teenager sang the theme from the television show “Cops” after he was arrested following a chase in New Jersey. Haworth police tell The Record the 16-year-old was driving ...
Apr 03, 2018
Marco Rubio on gun control: It depends who he's talking to
WASHINGTON - It was one week after the fatal shootings at a Parkland, Florida, high school, and Republican Sen. Marco Rubio was looking to show solidarity with an angry crowd of parents and students i...
Apr 03, 2018
US raises prospect of Trump-Putin meeting at the White House
WASHINGTON - The Trump administration says it is amenable to a White House meeting between President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin, raising the prospect of the Russian president...
Apr 03, 2018
US vs. China: a 'slap-fight,' not a trade war. So far
WASHINGTON - First, the United States imposed a tax on Chinese steel and aluminum. Then, China counterpunched Monday with tariffs on a host of U.S. products, including apples, pork and ginseng. On Wal...
Apr 03, 2018
Winnie Madikizela-Mandela: A life of struggle
JOHANNESBURG - Even the name given to Winnie Madikizela-Mandela at birth - Nomzamo, “one who undergoes trials” - foretold a life of struggle. During her nearly 38-year marriage to Nelson M...
Apr 03, 2018
Correction: Trump story on securing US-Mexico border
WASHINGTON - In a story April 3 about President Donald Trump announcing that he wants to use the military to secure the border, The Associated Press reported erroneously the length of the U.S.-Mexico ...
Apr 03, 2018
EPA says Pruitt's condo lease didn't violate ethics rules
WASHINGTON - An agency ethics official at the Environmental Protection Agency says Administrator Scott Pruitt’s lease of a Capitol Hill condo tied to a prominent fossil-fuels lobbyist didn’...
Apr 03, 2018
Trump blasts news media as 'fakers', defends Sinclair
WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump criticized the major television networks on Tuesday as “fakers.” Trump tweeted that the “‘Fakers’ at CNN, NBC, ABC & CBS have done...
Apr 03, 2018
An atypical terror case comes to close with 20-year sentence
BALTIMORE - It was July 2015 when the FBI, scrambling to contain a surge in Islamic State group propaganda, first visited an Egyptian-American newspaper deliveryman in Maryland. Agents needed to ask M...
Apr 03, 2018