Category Archives: World
Security and trade challenge Trump on first Asia trip
TOKYO - Security and trade will loom large during President Donald Trump’s first official visit to Asia, which begins Sunday in Japan. North Korea’s missile and nuclear weapons programs ar...
Nov 03, 2017
Refugee chief criticizes UN for failing to solve conflicts
The U.N. refugee chief sharply criticized the Security Council and world leaders Thursday for failing to prevent and resolve conflicts that have displaced nearly 66 million people around the world. Fi...
Nov 02, 2017
EPA to hold hearing on climate plan repeal in West Virginia
WASHINGTON - The Trump administration announced Thursday it will hold a public hearing in West Virginia on its plan to nullify an Obama-era plan to limit planet-warming carbon emissions. The state is ...
Nov 02, 2017
Brother of French jihadi who killed 7 escapes life sentence
PARIS - The older brother of a man who killed Jewish schoolchildren and paratroopers in southern France was convicted Thursday of having ties to a terrorist enterprise but found not guilty of complici...
Nov 02, 2017
4-foot-long lizard found in Southern California backyard
RIVERSIDE, Calif. - A lizard that can grow to be 8 feet long has been found in Southern California, thousands of miles from its native land, and authorities think it’s a pet gone astray. The 4-f...
Nov 02, 2017
NC officials still looking for deadly prison's assault tally
RALEIGH, N.C. - Three weeks after the deadliest attempted prison breakout in North Carolina history, prison and law enforcement officials still can’t quantify the scope of the violence that corr...
Nov 02, 2017
Hundreds of recruits get sick at San Diego Marine boot camp
SAN DIEGO - The Marine Corps says 86 recruits are now being treated after hundreds at a San Diego boot camp fell ill with symptoms indicating they were exposed to E. coli - bacteria that signal the pr...
Nov 02, 2017
AP source: Mueller's probe draws in Democrat, Republican
WASHINGTON - Special counsel Robert Mueller’s grand jury is investigating a prominent Democratic lobbyist and a former GOP congressman for their involvement in an influence campaign on behalf of...
Nov 02, 2017
Trump boosts federal assistance to Puerto Rico
WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump cleared the way for additional federal funding for storm-ravaged Puerto Rico Thursday, as the territory continues to recover from the devastation left by Hurricane ...
Nov 02, 2017
Groups sue for details on Trump plan for national monuments
BILLINGS, Mont. - Environmentalists sued the administration of President Donald Trump on Thursday seeking to pry loose details of plans to shrink national monuments and marine areas and open them to m...
Nov 02, 2017