Category Archives: World
Texas 'bathroom bill' near collapse over GOP standoff
AUSTIN, Texas - A proposed Texas “bathroom bill” targeting transgender people neared collapse Friday over a deadlock between Republicans heeding warnings from big businesses and sports lea...
May 26, 2017
White House to share information about lobbyist waivers
WASHINGTON - The White House is preparing to post to its website information about waivers it has granted to ex-lobbyists working in the president’s office. Spokeswoman Lindsay Walters says the ...
May 26, 2017
Missouri museum to display Confederate battle flag
KANSAS CITY, Mo. - At a time Confederate symbols are being purged from public sites, a northeast Missouri museum is putting a restored Confederacy flag on permanent inside display, calling it “a...
May 26, 2017
Federal judge tosses out life sentences for DC sniper Malvo
MCLEAN, Va. - A federal judge on Friday tossed out two life sentences for one of Virginia’s most notorious criminals, sniper Lee Boyd Malvo, and ordered Virginia courts to hold new sentencing he...
May 26, 2017
Company faces backlash for pulling Hannity ads
NEW YORK - Financial services firm USAA, facing a backlash to its decision to pull advertising from Sean Hannity’s show on Fox News Channel, says it is withdrawing from other opinion-based telev...
May 26, 2017
The Latest: Tom Morello, Josh Brolin eulogize Chris Cornell
LOS ANGELES - The Latest on memorial services Friday for late Soundgarden frontman Chris Cornell (all times local): 1:25 p.m. Chris Cornell’s memorial service has ended and mourners are headed t...
May 26, 2017
Melania Trump wears $51K Dolce & Gabbana jacket in Sicily
TAORMINA, Italy - Melania Trump’s first outing in the Sicilian sunshine was in a colorful floral applique jacket by Dolce & Gabbana that sells for $51,000, or several thousand dollars below ...
May 26, 2017
Trump law firm calls alleged Bloom County letter a 'fake'
NEW YORK - A law firm representing President Donald Trump is disputing internet reports that it sent a “cease and desist” letter to the creator of Bloom County. Emily M. Thall, director of...
May 26, 2017
Workers dangle from cables after partial building collapse
OAKLAND, Calif. - Scaffolding and wet concrete gave way at a building site in the San Francisco Bay Area on Friday, leaving construction workers dangling from metal cables and rebar and injuring at le...
May 26, 2017
Ariana Grande planning benefit concert in Manchester
NEW YORK - Ariana Grande has vowed to return to Manchester, England, to give a concert to raise money for the victims of Monday’s deadly bombing at her show there. In a statement both defiant an...
May 26, 2017