Category Archives: World

Court considers Cold War secrecy over Muslim surveillance
ALBANY, N.Y. - The New York Police Department overstepped its reach when it used a Cold War-era legal tactic to conceal information about whether it put two Muslim men under surveillance, a lawyer rep...
Feb 06, 2018
Rare dinosaur discovery in Egypt could signal more finds
MANSOURA, Egypt - A skeleton has been unearthed in Egypt’s Western Desert, where ancient sands have long helped preserve remains, but unlike most finds this one isn’t a mummy - it’s ...
Feb 06, 2018
Female genital mutilation continues as change comes slowly
BEKARREDAR, Ethiopia - The 25-year-old Kedija had her external genitalia removed and her vagina sewn up when she was just seven days old. She has faced a lifetime of pain. “I was unable to hold ...
Feb 06, 2018

Why Trump has little influence on rising or falling stocks
WASHINGTON - For months, President Donald Trump boasted about having steered the U.S. stock markets to record high after record high. What a difference a few days can make. The market free-fall, explo...
Feb 06, 2018

Despite Trump's tough talk, trade gap widens to 9-year high
WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump campaigned on a promise to overturn U.S. trade policy and bring down the country’s massive, persistent trade deficits. After a year in the White House, he sti...
Feb 06, 2018
Seattle Seahawks' Frank Clark loses father in house fire
CLEVELAND - Seattle Seahawks player Frank Clark has confirmed his father and three other family members have died in a Cleveland house fire. Clark wrote in a tweet posted Sunday evening that his fathe...
Feb 06, 2018
Investors must make sense of a sudden drop in stock market
Stumble, fall or crash? Investors may be wondering what to make of the dramatic sell-off in the stock market after months of tranquility. A slide that started early last week led to a sharp dive in ma...
Feb 06, 2018
By boat, N. Korean musicians arrive in South for Olympic gig
DONGHAE, Korea, Republic Of - A shipload of North Korean musicians, singers and dancers has arrived in South Korea to perform at the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics. The arrival of the Mangyongbong 92 cru...
Feb 06, 2018
Markets Right Now: Futures markets predict more US selling
NEW YORK - The latest on developments in financial markets (all times local): 6:55 a.m. It’s going to be a nervous opening on Wall Street, a day after the Dow Jones industrial average recorded i...
Feb 06, 2018
21 arrested as UK targets people smuggling gang in raids
LONDON - British police made 21 arrests Tuesday during a series of raids against a suspected people smuggling network that is accused of bringing hundreds of migrants across the English Channel. Offic...
Feb 06, 2018