Category Archives: World
Senate committee backs aviation bill minus key Trump goal
WASHINGTON - A Republican-led Senate committee on Thursday backed an aviation bill that omits one of President Donald Trump’s goals - turning air traffic control operations over to a private com...
Jun 29, 2017
Global cyberattack may have aimed for havoc, not extortion
PARIS - The cyberattack that has locked up computers around the world while demanding a ransom may not be an extortion attempt after all, but an effort to create havoc in Ukraine, security experts say...
Jun 29, 2017
Trump pans TV host's looks, brains; Republicans plead, Stop!
WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump launched a crude Twitter attack on the brains, looks and temperament of a female TV personality Thursday, drawing bipartisan howls of outrage and leaving fellow Rep...
Jun 29, 2017
Police: 1 killed, 1 wounded in shooting at bar in Spain
MADRID - Police in northeastern Spain say they have ruled out any links to terror in a shooting at a bar that killed one man and wounded another person in a coastal town in Catalonia. A spokesman with...
Jun 29, 2017
Early arrival: Phoenix woman gives birth to boy on flight
PHOENIX - Flight attendants huddled around Cristina Penton, handing her wet cloths to keep her cool. One massaged her shoulders, and another told her to stay calm - everything would be OK. Penton knew...
Jun 29, 2017
5 found guilty in killing of Russian opposition leader
MOSCOW - A jury convicted five men Thursday in the assassination of opposition leader Boris Nemtsov on a bridge near the Kremlin two years ago, ending a trial that his supporters said had failed to br...
Jun 29, 2017
Indiana mother sentenced to 130 years for killing children
GOSHEN, Ind. - A judge has ordered an Indiana woman who admitted to fatally smothering her two children to undergo mental health treatment before going to prison under a 130-year sentence. Thirty-year...
Jun 29, 2017
From Australia to the Vatican, Pell has had polarizing image
SYDNEY, Australia - The photograph was striking: There was George Pell, then an auxiliary bishop, walking side by side into court with Gerald Ridsdale, Australia’s worst pedophile priest. The de...
Jun 29, 2017
Trump trashes media, cheers wins at $10 million fundraiser
WASHINGTON - Republican donors paid $35,000 apiece to hear familiar a message from President Donald Trump: The media, particularly CNN, keep trying to take him down, and yet Republicans just keep on w...
Jun 29, 2017
Panels demand billions more for defence than Trump requested
WASHINGTON - The GOP-controlled Congress has taken the lead on one of President Donald Trump’s key campaign promises, pressing for tens of billions of dollars more for active-duty troops, combat...
Jun 29, 2017