Category Archives: World
Florida high school requiring clear backpacks after shooting
PARKLAND, Fla. - When Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School students return from spring break, they’ll be required by the local school district to use clear backpacks and wear identification badg...
Mar 22, 2018

School shooting victim 'brain dead,' life support ending
A teenage girl who was shot when a classmate opened fire inside their Maryland high school is brain dead and is being removed from life support, her mother said Thursday. Melissa Willey told news repo...
Mar 22, 2018

Last-gasp try for immigration deal fell to partisan disputes
WASHINGTON - An effort to protect young Dreamer immigrants from deportation never really had much chance of squeezing into the last bill Congress must pass this election year. That’s why bargain...
Mar 22, 2018
Species battle pits protected sea lions against fragile fish
NEWPORT, Ore. - The 700-pound sea lion blinked in the sun, sniffed the sea air and then lazily shifted to the edge of the truck bed and plopped onto the beach below. Freed from the cage that carried h...
Mar 22, 2018

Romanian court says dead man can get driving license back
BUCHAREST, Romania - Days after one Romanian court told a man he was officially dead despite evidence to the contrary, another court has declared that a man who was truly dead could get his driving li...
Mar 22, 2018

AP Explains: How a phone may have steered hunt for bomber
SAN FRANCISCO - Most people who own a smartphone take it wherever they go, a fact of modern life that enabled authorities to hunt down the man suspected in five Texas bombings before he blew himself u...
Mar 22, 2018
Austin bombing suspect's uncle says he was smart, kind
A 23-year-old suspected of planting deadly bombs that struck fear across Austin was described Wednesday by his uncle as a smart and kind “computer geek” and a friend said he was an asserti...
Mar 22, 2018
Austin bombing revives trauma of Alabama explosion death
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. - Judge Robert S. Vance was at his kitchen table on Dec. 16, 1989, when he opened a package that had been mailed to his home. The bomb hidden inside exploded with brutal force, killin...
Mar 22, 2018

Congress OKs $1.3 trillion budget, averting another shutdown
WASHINGTON - Congress gave final approval Friday to a giant $1.3 trillion spending bill that ends the budget battles for now, but only after late obstacles skirted close to another shutdown as conserv...
Mar 22, 2018
White House issues threat over leaked Trump briefing papers
WASHINGTON - The tempest over President Donald Trump’s congratulatory phone call to Vladimir Putin quickly grew into an uproar over White House leaks, sparking an internal investigation and spec...
Mar 22, 2018