Category Archives: World
Florida survivors, lawmakers on collision course over guns
PARKLAND, Fla. - Students who survived the Florida school shooting began a journey Tuesday to the state capitol to urge lawmakers to prevent another massacre, but within hours the gun-friendly Legisla...
Feb 19, 2018
Motown Museum event to honour black family-owned businesses
Detroit’s Motown Museum is organizing an event to celebrate the entrepreneurial legacy of the Gordy family and black family-owned businesses in honour of Black History Month. The event, which is...
Feb 19, 2018
New exhibit examines Native American imagery in US culture
FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. - Bold. Visionary. A spectacular success. The words in an online promotion for a new museum exhibit in Washington, D.C., describe an 1830 U.S. law that forced thousands of American In...
Feb 19, 2018

3M to pay $850 million to settle suit over chemical disposal
MINNEAPOLIS - 3M Co. has agreed to pay the state of Minnesota $850 million to settle a major case alleging the manufacturer damaged natural resources and contaminated groundwater by disposing of chemi...
Feb 19, 2018

Confederate statue toppling cases start with dismissals
DURHAM, N.C. - Problems identifying protesters on video hindered North Carolina prosecutors on Monday as they sought to hold demonstrators responsible for toppling a Confederate statue last summer. A ...
Feb 19, 2018
Funerals: Grieving teens, raw emotions after school shooting
PARKLAND, Fla. - Each funeral for the victims of the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High massacre is different, yet the same: the mourning relatives, teens walking in clutches wearing black, politicians pay...
Feb 19, 2018

Idaho lawmaker not sorry for yelling 'abortion is murder'
BOISE, Idaho - A Republican Idaho state senator yelled “abortion is murder” at a group of students who were pushing for birth control legislation at the Statehouse and now faces an ethics ...
Feb 19, 2018
Californians can go home but told to keep watch on wildfire
BISHOP, Calif. - A wind-driven wildfire in rural central California threatened hundreds of buildings Monday, including a historic railroad station, but officials said they made some gains after the fl...
Feb 19, 2018

Court: Pardoned Peru strongman Fujimori can be tried again
LIMA, Peru - A court in Peru has ruled that former strongman Alberto Fujimori can be tried in connection with a 1992 massacre despite his recent pardon from a 25-year jail sentence. The decision Monda...
Feb 19, 2018
Gulf cartel boss captured in Mexican state bordering Texas
CIUDAD VICTORIA, Mexico - An alleged top boss of the Gulf drug cartel was captured by Mexican marines Monday in the northern border state of Tamaulipas, which for years has been terrorized by gangland...
Feb 19, 2018