Category Archives: World
Questions raised about Liu Xiaobo's prison medical treatment
SHENYANG, China - As recently as February, Liu Xiaobo’s brother dismissed reports that the imprisoned Chinese Nobel Peace laureate might be ill. Then came the bombshell on Monday that Liu has be...
Jun 27, 2017
Supreme Court playground ruling feeds school voucher debate
Education Secretary Betsy DeVos and other proponents of school voucher programs are praising a U.S. Supreme Court ruling that said a Lutheran church was wrongly denied a state grant for its preschool ...
Jun 27, 2017
Medicaid mission creep threatens GOP's 'Obamacare' repeal
WASHINGTON - Somewhere along the way, the Republican crusade to repeal “Obamacare” also turned into an effort to limit the future growth of Medicaid. That bit of mission creep is complicat...
Jun 27, 2017
Male, female, X: DC giving drivers a new option on licenses
WASHINGTON - The District of Columbia is giving residents a new gender option on their driver’s licenses or identification cards issued by the city’s department of motor vehicles. On Tuesd...
Jun 27, 2017
14-year-old excites country with record Japanese chess debut
TOKYO - A 14-year-old boy is taking his country by storm with a record-breaking start to his pro career in the Japanese version of chess. Ninth-grader Sota Fujii broke a 30-year-old record this week w...
Jun 27, 2017
Alaska salutes black soldiers' work on highway during WWII
ANCHORAGE, Alaska - Leonard Larkins and nearly 4,000 other segregated black soldiers helped build a highway across Alaska and Canada during World War II, a contribution largely ignored for decades but...
Jun 27, 2017
What's next for Brazil's Temer following corruption charge?
SAO PAULO - Embattled in Congress and unpopular on the streets, President Michel Temer has now been charged with corruption by Brazil’s top prosecutor in the wake of a plea bargain signed by exe...
Jun 27, 2017
Officials: Shooter scare at Army base was false alarm
HUNTSVILLE, Ala. - A security scare that shut down an Alabama Army base and sparked fears of a shooting was a false alarm, the military said Wednesday. A statement released by Redstone Arsenal said so...
Jun 27, 2017
Inmate: I strangled prisoners to try to land on death row
COLUMBIA, S.C. - One by one, Denver Simmons recalled, he and his partner lured inmates into his cell. William Scruggs was promised cookies in exchange for doing some laundry; Jimmy Ham thought he was ...
Jun 27, 2017
UN: Colombia disarmament process for individual arms ends
MESETAS, Colombia - The United Nations says it has concluded the disarmament process for individual arms as part of a peace deal between Colombia’s leftist rebels and the government. At a ceremo...
Jun 27, 2017