Category Archives: World
Mentally ill languish in Texas jails despite funding hike
AUSTIN, Texas - Though a judge deemed her mentally unfit to stand trial fourteen months ago, Jennifer Lampkin is still sitting in an Austin jail cell because there are no free spots for her at the sta...
May 24, 2017
Hate crime charges filed after swastikas painted on home
CINCINNATI - A man accused of spray painting swastikas and the phrase “white power” on a biracial couple’s Cincinnati home has been indicted on federal hate crime charges. Prosecutor...
May 24, 2017
Lawyer accused of threatening rape victim with deportation
ANNAPOLIS, Md. - A Maryland defence lawyer and a man acting as his interpreter have been charged with trying to intimidate a rape victim, by raising the possibility of deportation if she testified aga...
May 24, 2017
Correction: Snowy Plover Chick story
PORTLAND, Ore. - In a story May 24 about the Western snowy plover, The Associated Press reported erroneously that Oregon requires dogs to be kept on leash in snowy plover nesting areas. The state bans...
May 24, 2017
Troops pull out of Brazil capital; president under pressure
BRASILIA, Brazil - Brazil’s president on Thursday cancelled an order that sent soldiers into the streets of the capital, following criticism that the move was excessive and merely an effort to m...
May 24, 2017
Marijuana extract helps some kids with epilepsy, study says
A medicine made from marijuana, without the stuff that gives a high, cut seizures in kids with a severe form of epilepsy in a study that strengthens the case for more research into pot’s possibl...
May 24, 2017
House approves bill seeking to upend EPA pesticide rule
WASHINGTON - The House on Wednesday passed a Republican-backed measure reversing an Environmental Protection Agency requirement that those spraying pesticides on or near rivers and lakes file for a pe...
May 24, 2017
Trump budget faces Dem opposition, GOP doubts about math
WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump’s budget chief delivered a spirited defence of the plan’s deep spending cuts, but his agriculture secretary offered only a half-hearted endorsement of p...
May 24, 2017
Foreign meetings omitted from Sessions' security clearance
WASHINGTON - Attorney General Jeff Sessions did not disclose contacts with foreign dignitaries, including the Russian ambassador, on a security clearance form he submitted as a United States senator l...
May 24, 2017
Writers Guild overwhelmingly ratifies new 3-year contract
LOS ANGELES - Members of the Writers Guild of America have overwhelmingly approved a new three-year contract with television and film producers. The guild announced Wednesday that the new agreement pa...
May 24, 2017