Category Archives: World
Trump wants $108M for deeper ports; Corps adds $56M boost
SAVANNAH, Ga. - President Donald Trump wants $108 million to deepen harbours for two U.S. seaports, while other ports scrambling to make room for larger cargo ships will benefit from a boost of more t...
May 24, 2017
Agent feared leak of Trump tax returns could affect election
BATON ROUGE, La. - Less than two weeks before Election Day, federal agents descended on a hotel lobby to meet a Louisiana private investigator they believed had illegally tried to obtain Donald Trump&...
May 24, 2017
Passenger: airline was warned about disruptive man at gate
HONOLULU - Before a flight from Los Angeles to Honolulu took off carrying a passenger whose inflight behaviour prompted bomb-threat procedures and military fighter jets to escort the plane, passengers...
May 24, 2017
TSA tests screening larger electronic devices separately
Travellers at some U.S. airports are being asked to place electronic devices bigger than a cellphone in separate bins so that they can be examined more closely. The Transportation Security Administrat...
May 24, 2017
Top Venezuela prosecutor says protester killed by police
CARACAS, Venezuela - Venezuela’s chief prosecutor further distanced herself from the socialist administration Wednesday, deepening the widest rift in a government that has otherwise presented a ...
May 24, 2017
Jury rules with school in fight over California strawberries
FRESNO, Calif. - A renowned strawberry researcher in California broke patent law and violated a loyalty pledge to his former university by taking his work with him to profit from it in a private compa...
May 24, 2017
8 California guards, 7 inmates sent to hospital after brawl
SACRAMENTO, Calif. - A fight between two California prisoners quickly raged out of control Wednesday and forced correctional officers to open fire to stop a melee that sent eight guards and seven inma...
May 24, 2017
Bear trying to get doughnuts tears off Colorado car bumper
STEAMBOAT SPRINGS, Colo. - A bear with a sweet tooth ripped off the bumper of a car used to deliver doughnuts in Colorado then tried to claw its way through the trunk to get inside. Moose Watch Cafe o...
May 24, 2017
South Dakota girl with cancer prevented from graduating
RAPID CITY, S.D. - A western South Dakota high school won’t allow a student who has brain cancer to walk during its graduation ceremony because she is a few credits short of being able to gradua...
May 24, 2017
Ohio officer's attorneys seek dismissal of case
CINCINNATI - Attorneys for a white police officer who fatally shot an unarmed black motorist Wednesday asked an Ohio judge to dismiss the charges on the eve of his murder retrial, claiming the county ...
May 24, 2017