Category Archives: World
Irma all hype? 2 Florida conservatives, 2 different views
TALLAHASSSEE, Fla. - Two well-known Florida conservatives have vastly different reactions to the pending arrival of Hurricane Irma. For the last three days, Florida Gov. Rick Scott has sounded the ala...
Sep 07, 2017
NFL player case renews police race bias debate in Las Vegas
LAS VEGAS - Police in this tourist-driven city with a history of racially charged incidents were hit again Thursday with questions about bias, profiling and use of force after a black NFL player repor...
Sep 07, 2017
Appeals court: Grandparents not part of Trump's travel ban
SEATTLE - Grandparents, cousins and similarly close relations of people in the United States should not be prevented from coming to the country under President Donald Trump’s travel ban, a feder...
Sep 07, 2017
Is Hurricane Irma the 'Big One' Florida has dreaded?
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. - They call it the Big One - a mythic, massive hurricane that would obliterate the densely populated southeast coast. And it has long been the stuff of Florida’s nightmares...
Sep 07, 2017
Officers, others sue Houston-area chemical plant after fire
HOUSTON - Seven police officers and other emergency responders say they were sickened by a chemical fire at a storm-flooded plant outside Houston, according to a lawsuit they filed against the owner T...
Sep 07, 2017
Librarian pleads guilty in death of World War I veteran
BUFFALO, N.Y. - Sixty-five years after Edmund Schreiber survived some of the bloodiest fighting of World War I, the Purple Heart Medal recipient was found strangled with his own neckties. Now, nearly ...
Sep 07, 2017
Veteran Texas Democrat to head Harvey rebuilding effort
AUSTIN, Texas - Republican Texas Gov. Greg Abbott on Thursday tapped a veteran Democrat to lead the state’s recovery effort after Harvey, which is shaping up to be among the costliest natural di...
Sep 07, 2017
Ryan aiming for low- to mid-20 per cent corporate tax rate
WASHINGTON - With Republicans in Congress under pressure to deliver on taxes, House Speaker Paul Ryan said Thursday the GOP plan will aim to reduce the corporate tax rate to low- to mid-20 per cent - ...
Sep 07, 2017
Harvey's floodwaters give way to festering piles of garbage
HOUSTON - Roiling waters in the streets have given way to festering piles of garbage on the curbs. Harvey’s record-setting rains created heaps of ruined possessions that now line entire neighbou...
Sep 07, 2017
A look at the damage from Hurricane Irma in the Caribbean
A look at the impact of Hurricane Irma on individual countries and territories as it tears across the Caribbean: ANGUILLA One death was reported in the British territory of Anguilla, which also suffer...
Sep 07, 2017