Category Archives: World

Trump aims for moon, pulls back on space station, telescopes
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - The Trump administration wants NASA out of the International Space Station by 2025, and private businesses running the place instead. Under President Donald Trump’s 2019 p...
Feb 12, 2018
Pick to help run 2020 Census no longer under consideration
The Trump administration’s pick for a key position overseeing the 2020 Census is out, the Commerce Department confirmed Monday, as civil rights groups applauded the decision. A Commerce Departme...
Feb 12, 2018

Feds: Military impersonator used helicopter to impress woman
RALEIGH, N.C. - A man pretending to be a three-star U.S. Army general wanted to impress a woman when he unexpectedly landed in a chartered helicopter at the headquarters of a North Carolina technology...
Feb 12, 2018

14 worms pulled from woman's eye after rare infection
NEW YORK - An Oregon woman who had worms coming out of her eye is being called the first known human case of a parasitic infection spread by flies. Fourteen tiny worms were removed from the left eye o...
Feb 12, 2018

Interior to replace Obama-era rule on methane emissions
WASHINGTON - The Interior Department is replacing an Obama-era regulation aimed at restricting harmful methane emissions from oil and gas production on federal lands. A rule being published in the Fed...
Feb 12, 2018

NKorea still holds the key after US shifts policy on talks
WASHINGTON - The U.S. is open for talks without preconditions with nuclear North Korea, Vice-President Mike Pence has declared, subtly shifting White House policy after Olympics-inspired gestures of r...
Feb 12, 2018

White House says Trump takes domestic violence seriously
WASHINGTON - Facing another day of fallout, the White House on Monday defended President Donald Trump’s failure to acknowledge publicly the women who’ve accused former staff secretary Rob ...
Feb 12, 2018

2 Baltimore detectives convicted of racketeering, robbery
BALTIMORE - Two Baltimore police detectives were convicted of robbery, racketeering, and conspiracy Monday in a trial that’s part of an ongoing federal investigation into corruption among rogue ...
Feb 12, 2018

Galentine's Day evolves from sitcom to become part of #MeToo
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. - When Kelly Smith thought about when to hold her kickoff event for a county commission campaign in suburban Florida, she chose a day symbolizing women supporting women: Galentine...
Feb 12, 2018
Heir donates estate of Hitler's filmmaker, Leni Riefenstahl
BERLIN - A German cultural foundation says it has been bequeathed photos, films, manuscripts, letters and files from the estate of Leni Riefenstahl, the legendary filmmaker best known for the propagan...
Feb 12, 2018