Category Archives: World
State: 111 terminally ill end lives under new California law
SAN DIEGO - California health officials reported Tuesday that 111 terminally ill people took drugs to end their lives in the first six months after a 2016 law made the option legal in the nation’...
Jun 27, 2017
Florida bitcoin processing boss gets 5 1/2 years in prison
NEW YORK - A Florida man was sentenced to 5 1/2 years in prison by a judge who said he used a “pyramid of lies” to boost a business that helped criminals process millions of dollars in ill...
Jun 27, 2017
Florida governor, prosecutor fight heads to state high court
ORLANDO, Fla. - Does Florida’s governor have the power to take away a prosecutor’s case if he disagrees with a decision not to seek the death penalty? The state’s highest court will ...
Jun 27, 2017
Arizona Supreme Court to rule on same-sex parental rights
PHOENIX - Arizona’s highest court on Tuesday struggled how to balance U.S. Supreme Court rulings requiring equal treatment for married gay couples with a state law that doesn’t recognize t...
Jun 27, 2017
FBI locates car related to missing Chinese scholar case
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. - The FBI has located the car that a missing Chinese scholar studying at the University of Illinois was last seen getting into earlier this month, the FBI said Tuesday. The University ...
Jun 27, 2017
Chicago charges show challenge of police code of silence
CHICAGO - Since late 2015, the public has known that police who witnessed the fatal shooting of Laquan McDonald described a scene starkly different than the one that later emerged on video of a white ...
Jun 27, 2017
Yellen: Banking reforms should avert future financial crisis
LONDON - Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen said Tuesday that she believes banking regulators have made enough improvements to the financial system that the world will not experience another financial...
Jun 27, 2017
Correction: F Lee Bailey-Bankruptcy story
PORTLAND, Maine - In a story June 27 about F. Lee Bailey’s bankruptcy, The Associated Press incorrectly identified his bankruptcy attorney. The attorney is James Molleur, not John Molleur. A cor...
Jun 27, 2017
New limbs for growing bodies: Mutilated albinos get refitted
NEW YORK - Baraka Cosmas, 7, is missing half his right arm. Mwigulu Matonange, 14, lost his left arm. Emmanuel Festo, 15, lost his right, plus the fingers of his left hand. Pendo Sengerema, 16, had an...
Jun 27, 2017
Finding comfort, and North Korea, in a tiny restaurant
INCHEON, Korea, Republic Of - The little restaurant isn’t much to look at. It’s across the street from an empty lot in a city where bland high-rise apartment buildings sprawl in every dire...
Jun 27, 2017