Category Archives: World
Arkansas to issue birth certificates for same-sex parents
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. - The Arkansas Health Department says it will begin issuing birth certificates listing both spouses in married same-sex couples as the parents after the state lost a case before the ...
Jun 28, 2017
North Korea warns US it will keep building nuclear arsenal
North Korea’s U.N. ambassador warned the United States and the rest of the world Wednesday that his country will keep building up its nuclear arsenal regardless of sanctions, pressure or militar...
Jun 28, 2017
Trump rakes in $10 million at first re-election fundraiser
WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump was whisked a few blocks from the White House to the Trump hotel on Wednesday night for his first re-election fundraiser, where he raised an estimated $10 million b...
Jun 28, 2017
Walmart seeks new products amid online battle with Amazon
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. - Hundreds of inventors have flocked to Walmart’s headquarters in Bentonville to find out if the country needs a few more secret sauces, prettier mouse pads or “instant h...
Jun 28, 2017
Prosecutor calls for 20-year sentence for Suriname president
PARAMARIBO, Suriname - A prosecutor on Wednesday recommended a 20-year prison sentence for President Desi Bouterse for his role in the December 1982 killing of 15 prominent political opponents in this...
Jun 28, 2017
Ex-pharmaceutical CEO accused at trial of cheating investors
NEW YORK - “Pharma Bro” Martin Shkreli is either a con man who scammed hedge fund investors of millions or a nerdy genius who made them even richer. The conflicting portraits were offered ...
Jun 28, 2017
Man sentenced to 10 years for killing daughter's boyfriend
RUTLAND, Vt. - A Vermont farmer has been sentenced to 10 years in prison for killing his daughter’s boyfriend and burying his body beneath a manure pile. Stephen Pelletier, 62, last year agreed ...
Jun 28, 2017
Sister of WWII soldier gets his long-lost Purple Heart, flag
WESTFIELD, N.J. - A 95-year-old woman whose brother was killed during World War II has received his long-lost Purple Heart and the flag that was used at his burial. The Purple Hearts Reunited non-prof...
Jun 28, 2017
Justice Dept. group honours transgender teen in bathroom case
WASHINGTON - A transgender teen who sued to be able to use the boys’ bathroom was honoured Wednesday by members of a Justice Department whose leadership undercut his landmark case before it coul...
Jun 28, 2017
Sept. 11 worker facing deportation is freed from detention
NEW YORK - A onetime Sept. 11 World Trade Center cleanup volunteer who faces possible deportation over a 1990 drug conviction but was pardoned by the governor was freed from immigration detention on W...
Jun 28, 2017