Category Archives: World
Setting aside past rude talk, Trump and pope focus on peace
VATICAN CITY - Handshakes, gifts, friendly small talk and big hopes for peace. Setting aside past differences and rude comments aside, President Donald Trump and Pope Francis put a determinedly positi...
May 24, 2017
8 police officers killed by separate bomb blasts in Kenya
NAIROBI, Kenya - Eight Kenyan police officers were killed when their vehicles ran over improvised bombs in two separate incidents near the border with Somalia, officials said Wednesday. The dead inclu...
May 24, 2017
Off-duty corrections officer accidentally shoots self in bar
NEW YORK - An off-duty New York City corrections officer has accidentally shot himself and a woman after he dropped his gun while talking to her in a bar. The officer was speaking to an unidentified w...
May 24, 2017
The Latest: Army trucks roll deeper into Philippine city
MANILA, Philippines - The Latest on the siege of a Philippine city that led President Rodrigo Duterte to declare martial law in the south (all times local): 10 a.m. Army dump trucks carrying several s...
May 24, 2017
Key benchmarks in President Donald Trump's budget
WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump sent Congress his recommended budget for the coming fiscal year. It includes steep cuts to many programs relied on by the poor, such as Medicaid and food stamps, an...
May 24, 2017
Agency-by-agency look at Trump's budget
How President Donald Trump’s proposed $4.1 trillion federal spending plan would affect individual government agencies. ___ AGRICULTURE Up or down? Down 5 per cent Highlight: The proposed budget ...
May 24, 2017
Islamic State-linked militants besiege Philippine city
MARAWI, Philippines - Army tanks packed with soldiers rolled into a southern Philippine city Thursday as gunfire and explosions rang out after militants linked to the Islamic State group torched build...
May 24, 2017
Jury of 12 on Bill Cosby sex assault case includes 2 blacks
PITTSBURGH - The jury that will hear the sex assault case against Bill Cosby will include two blacks among its 12 members in a case Cosby believes could be racially motivated. Prosecutors and the defe...
May 24, 2017
Trump administration dropping nuclear waste burial test
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. - The U.S. Department of Energy is abandoning a test meant to determine whether nuclear waste can be buried far underground because of changes in budget priorities, the agency said T...
May 23, 2017
Juan Gabriel's son sues Univision, Telemundo for defamation
MIAMI - Mexican superstar Juan Gabriel’s son is seeking $100 million from Spanish-language broadcasters Univision and Telemundo in a defamation lawsuit filed in a state court in Miami. The singe...
May 23, 2017