Category Archives: World
California 'pot resort' asking people to toke up privately
LOS ANGELES - Nipton’s new swimming hole is under construction, booze is returning to the restaurant and lottery tickets are being sold again at the ghost town’s general store. But it like...
Mar 27, 2018

Trump attends dinner at home of real estate developer
WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump has attended a dinner in Virginia at the home of a real estate developer who hosted a fundraiser for him in 2016. The Tuesday night event was organized by the super...
Mar 27, 2018
Facebook sued by housing advocates alleging discrimination
NEW YORK - Fair housing advocates sued Facebook Tuesday, saying it lets landlords and real estate brokers target advertising to discriminate against women, those with disabilities and families with ch...
Mar 27, 2018
Hawaii committee calls for Obama statue in his birth state
HONOLULU - A state Senate committee in Hawaii on Tuesday called for a statue of former President Barack Obama to be erected in the state where he was born. The Senate Judiciary Committee voted unanimo...
Mar 27, 2018

Texas executes man who stuffed woman's body into luggage
HUNTSVILLE, Texas - A San Antonio man who became known as the “suitcase killer” was executed Tuesday evening in Texas for the slaying of a 29-year-old Lubbock woman whose battered, naked b...
Mar 27, 2018
Designer of deadly waterslide charged along with park owner
TOPEKA, Kan. - A water park company co-owner accused of rushing the world’s tallest waterslide into service and a designer accused of shoddy planning were charged Tuesday in the decapitation of ...
Mar 27, 2018
$930M given for Yemen aid as Saudi prince meets UN leader
Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates gave $930 million to U.N. humanitarian efforts in Yemen on Tuesday as a war between a Saudi-led military coalition and Yemen’s Shiite rebels enters its ...
Mar 27, 2018
Death penalty recommended for man who killed deputies
SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Jurors recommend the death penalty Tuesday for a man who repeatedly entered the United States illegally before killing two Northern California deputies in a case that fueled the n...
Mar 27, 2018

Campaign caravan of Brazil's da Silva shot at; no one hurt
LARANJEIRAS DO SUL, Brazil - Gunshots hit two buses in a caravan for former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva’s campaign tour in southern Brazil on Tuesday, officials in his Worker’s Par...
Mar 27, 2018
National Music Museum at USD to expand
VERMILLION, S.D. - A South Dakota museum that boasts one of the world’s largest collections of musical instruments is about to get bigger. The National Music Museum at the University of South Da...
Mar 27, 2018