Category Archives: World
Lawsuits over new Utah monument to test president's power
SALT LAKE CITY - Native American tribes and environmental groups preparing for a legal battle to stop President Donald Trump from dismantling Utah’s new national monument face a tougher challeng...
Jun 28, 2017
Rising violence takes huge psychological toll in Rio favelas
RIO DE JANEIRO - Almir Arruda rode his bicycle quickly across the City of God slum in Rio de Janeiro when he heard there was a shootout between drug traffickers and police near his 4-year-old daughter...
Jun 28, 2017
Trump says 'oui' to French leader's Bastille Day invitation
WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump plans to celebrate Bastille Day in France. The White House announced Wednesday that Trump has accepted French President Emmanuel Macron’s invitation to help c...
Jun 28, 2017
US demands more security on international flights to US
WASHINGTON - The Homeland Security Department is demanding that airlines around the world step up security measures for international flights bound for the United States or face the possibility of a t...
Jun 28, 2017
Pence: Trump will repeal Obama's health law by summer's end
CLEVELAND - Vice-President Mike Pence on Wednesday reiterated a promise to repeal former President Barack Obama’s health care reforms by the end of the summer despite uncertainty over whether a ...
Jun 28, 2017
Paddington bear creator Michael Bond dies at 91
LONDON - It was a last-minute Christmas gift for his wife that inspired Michael Bond to create Paddington bear, the marmalade-loving teddy in a duffel coat and floppy hat. Bond would go on to see his ...
Jun 28, 2017
US pending home sales slip for 3rd straight month
WASHINGTON - Americans signed fewer contracts to buy homes in May, the third straight monthly decline and evidence that a shortage of homes for sale has suppressed home-buying. The National Associatio...
Jun 28, 2017
ABC, meat producer settle in $1.9B 'pink slime' libel suit
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. - ABC and a South Dakota meat producer announced a settlement Wednesday in a $1.9 billion lawsuit against the American network over its reports on a lean, finely textured beef produc...
Jun 28, 2017
China frees 3 activists who probed Ivanka Trump supplier
GANZHOU, China - The three Chinese investigators who went undercover at a factory that made Ivanka Trump shoes walked out of a Chinese police station Wednesday after a month behind bars, but face an u...
Jun 28, 2017
German Parliament set to vote Friday on gay marriage
BERLIN - The German Parliament plans to vote Friday on whether to legalize same-sex marriage - only days after Chancellor Angela Merkel backed off her conservative party’s long-standing refusal ...
Jun 28, 2017