Category Archives: World
Man convicted of beating boy to death, tossing body in river
COLUMBUS, Ohio - An Ohio man has been convicted of beating a 14-month-old boy to death and tossing his body into a creek with the help of the child’s mother. The woman told jurors that 27-year-o...
Feb 16, 2018
FBI says it failed to investigate tip on Florida suspect
PARKLAND, Fla. - The FBI received a tip last month that the suspect in the Florida school shooting had a “desire to kill” and access to guns and could be plotting an attack, but agents fai...
Feb 16, 2018

Boseman, Haddish, Gerwig, Nanjiani among Oscars presenters
LOS ANGELES - “Black Panther” star Chadwick Boseman, “Girls Trip” breakout star Tiffany Haddish, “Lady Bird” author Greta Gerwig and “The Big Sick” co-w...
Feb 16, 2018
House GOP leaders struggle to push immigration bill
WASHINGTON - As badly as things have gone for immigration legislation in the Senate, it’s not looking any easier in the more conservative House. Republican leaders there are scrambling to find e...
Feb 16, 2018
Civilians have no place to run as Turkey offensive drags on
BEIRUT - One-month-old Heyim Hassan was receiving treatment for a chest infection in the Afrin general hospital in northern Syria when a shell landed a few meters (feet) away. His panicked father whis...
Feb 16, 2018
Family grieves Philippine maid found dead in Kuwait freezer
MANILA, Philippines - The body of a Filipino housemaid found stuffed in a freezer in an abandoned apartment in Kuwait was flown home to her grieving family Friday, as attention focused on the plight o...
Feb 16, 2018

Old yearbook photo spurs effort to find missing WWII pilot
ALBANY, N.Y. - During World War II, four American servicemen who graduated from the same upstate New York high school had their photo taken for the yearbook: a Coast Guardsman, a Navy pilot, a sailor ...
Feb 16, 2018
US, Turkey return from brink, aim to 'normalize' ties
ANKARA, Turkey - The United States and Turkey pulled back from the brink of a potentially disastrous crisis on Friday, agreeing to normalize badly strained relations over Syria and other issues that h...
Feb 16, 2018
Khodorkovsky plots out a long game: a post-Putin Russia
LONDON - He once was Russia’s richest man, and then for 10 years its most famous prisoner. Now Mikhail Khodorkovsky wants to try a new mantle: godfather of Russian democracy. Khodorkovsky is pla...
Feb 16, 2018
3 independents poised to shake up Mexico's presidential race
MEXICO CITY - The bronco, the jaguar, and the former first lady: These three outsiders appear destined for Mexico’s July 1 ballot as the first independent candidates to seek the presidency in ge...
Feb 16, 2018