Category Archives: World
Off the sideline: Students, women, teachers embrace activism
Suddenly, America is on the march. Saturday’s March for Our Lives, planned for Washington and hundreds of other locations, is just the most recent sign that an extraordinary number of Americans ...
Mar 22, 2018
Can Zuckerberg's media blitz take the pressure off Facebook?
NEW YORK - In the wake of a privacy scandal involving a Trump-connected data-mining firm, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg embarked on a rare media mini-blitz in an attempt to take some of the public and ...
Mar 22, 2018
Nor'easter rolls into New England as millions begin cleanup
NEW YORK - The latest nor’easter lost some punch as it rolled into New England on Thursday, as millions of people elsewhere in the Northeast dug out from the storm that dumped more than a foot o...
Mar 22, 2018
California storm forces flood rescues but spares Montecito
LOS ANGELES - A powerful storm in California that swelled rivers, flooded streets and triggered water rescues throughout the state is on its last gasp. The three-day storm spared communities a repeat ...
Mar 22, 2018
6 dead, 2 hurt in Czech chemical factory explosion
PRAGUE, Czech Republic - An explosion rocked a chemical factory Thursday in the Czech Republic, killing six people and injuring two others, officials said. Unipetrol, a Czech oil processor and plastic...
Mar 22, 2018
US poet laureate Tracy K. Smith to serve second term
NEW YORK - U.S. poet laureate Tracy K. Smith will serve a second term. Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden announced Thursday that Smith has been reappointed for 2018-2019. The library said that Smith ...
Mar 22, 2018
TV personality known for playing Bozo the Clown dies at 89
BOSTON - Longtime Boston television personality and entertainer Frank Avruch, who was the star of the popular children’s TV program “Bozo the Clown,” has died. He was 89. Avruch died...
Mar 21, 2018
Video: Officers yelled 'gun' before shooting unarmed man
SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Two officers yelled for a suspect to show his hands then shouted “gun, gun, gun” moments before fatally shooting the man who turned out to be unarmed, audio from body ...
Mar 21, 2018
Gun used in California killing had been wrongfully returned
LOS ANGELES - Sheriff’s officials wrongfully returned a gun to a man who used it to kill his ex-wife inside a busy Southern California mall last weekend, even though a judge had ordered the weap...
Mar 21, 2018
Teacher who called US military 'lowest of low' is fired
PICO RIVERA, Calif. - A history teacher who was videotaped telling his students that only dumb people join the U.S. military has been fired by the suburban Southern California school district where he...
Mar 21, 2018