Category Archives: World
Mexico's ruling party faces more hurdles to maintain power
ECATEPEC, Mexico - At a recent political rally in this crime-ridden Mexico City suburb, next year’s presidential election was discussed as much as the upcoming June 4 vote for governor in the co...
May 26, 2017
Trump's budget dismays families hit by drug addiction crisis
NEW YORK - He slept next to his son’s ashes most nights back when Kraig Moss first met Donald Trump. In a hall packed with Iowa voters, the presidential candidate looked the middle-aged truck dr...
May 26, 2017
White House adviser differs with coal-loving president
WASHINGTON - The president’s chief economic adviser is casting doubt on the future of U.S. coal, saying it “doesn’t really make that much sense anymore as a feedstock,” directl...
May 26, 2017
Q&A: A look at latest legal loss for Trump travel ban
SEATTLE - A Virginia-based federal appeals court pulled no punches in refusing to reinstate President Donald Trump’s revised travel ban, with judges in the 10-3 majority calling the administrati...
May 26, 2017
Clinton: Trump budget an 'attack of unimaginable cruelty'
WELLESLEY, Mass. - Hillary Clinton peppered her Wellesley College commencement address Friday with barbs aimed at her rival in last year’s presidential election, criticizing President Donald Tru...
May 26, 2017
NewsAlert: Ariana Grande says she will return to Manchester for benefit concert
LONDON - American singer Ariana Grande says she will return to Manchester for a benefit concert to raise money for attack victims. More to come. The Associated Press
May 26, 2017
Victims of the bombing: Parents, children, couple, friends
LONDON - The bombing at a Manchester concert on Monday night claimed the lives of 22 people, many of them teenagers and their parents. They include a teenage couple who died together and two mothers p...
May 26, 2017
Kennedys discuss JFK's legacy 100 years after his birth
BOSTON - John F. Kennedy didn’t make it even halfway to 100 - a milestone he might have celebrated next week - but the slain U.S. president’s legacy is being lived out by members of his fa...
May 26, 2017
Trump criticizes German trade surplus, again
TAORMINA, Italy - President Donald Trump has criticized Germany’s trade surplus with the United States, drawing attention to a contentious issue at a summit of world leaders where trade is alrea...
May 26, 2017
Key dates in Sri Lanka's contributions to UN peacekeeping
Sri Lanka’s participation in U.N. peacekeeping operations began while the country was embroiled in a brutal, generation-long civil war. Yet, even as Sri Lanka refused to investigate alleged war ...
May 26, 2017