Category Archives: World
Officials: No charges for officers who killed Dallas sniper
DALLAS - A grand jury has declined to bring charges against Dallas police officers who used a bomb-carrying robot to kill a sniper who had just gunned down five officers during a downtown rally, prose...
Jan 31, 2018
Philly congressman Brady won't seek another term
PHILADELPHIA - U.S. Rep. Bob Brady of Philadelphia, a plainspoken former carpenter who has served as the city’s Democratic Party boss for 30 years, announced Wednesday he will not seek another t...
Jan 31, 2018
Owner receives letter granting dog unemployment benefits
SAUGATUCK, Mich. - Michael Ryder had been approved for $360 every week in Michigan unemployment benefits - until the state learned he’d been dogging it at the Detroit-area restaurant chain where...
Jan 31, 2018
US prosecutors won't retry Menendez on corruption charges
NEWARK, N.J. - Federal prosecutors decided Wednesday not to retry Sen. Bob Menendez on corruption charges that ended in a hung jury last fall, lifting the legal cloud hanging over the New Jersey Democ...
Jan 31, 2018
Drivers say safety arms at crash site seemed to malfunction
CROZET, Va. - The safety arms at a railroad crossing where a train carrying Republican lawmakers slammed into a garbage truck appeared to be malfunctioning the day before the deadly crash, drivers who...
Jan 31, 2018
Magnitude 6.1 quake rattles Afghanistan and Pakistan
ISLAMABAD - A strong magnitude 6.1 earthquake rattled Pakistan and Afghanistan on Wednesday, including the capital cities of both countries, killing a young girl and injuring 15 others, officials said...
Jan 31, 2018
Civilians pay price as Turkey battles Syrian Kurds
ANKARA, Turkey - Rockets fired from northern Syria into a Turkish border town killed a teenage girl and wounded another person on Wednesday, Turkey’s state-run news agency reported, in the lates...
Jan 31, 2018
South Africa's president under growing pressure to leave
JOHANNESBURG - South Africa’s deputy president is acting more like a president these days, while talk surrounding his scandal-tainted boss is about how and when he would quit. That makes for awk...
Jan 31, 2018
AI in the court: When algorithms rule on jail time
CLEVELAND - The centuries-old process of releasing defendants on bail, long the province of judicial discretion, is getting a major assist … courtesy of artificial intelligence. In late August, ...
Jan 31, 2018
Lunar showstopper: Super blue blood moon awes and wows
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - The moon put on a rare cosmic show Wednesday: a red blue moon, super big and super bright. It’s the first time in 35 years a blue moon has synced up with a supermoon and a...
Jan 31, 2018