Category Archives: World
Lawmaker: Hugo Chavez's childhood home burned by protesters
CARACAS, Venezuela - Protesters set fire to late President Hugo Chavez’s childhood home in western Venezuela on Monday, an opposition lawmaker said, as protests against the South American nation...
May 22, 2017
Small sinkhole opens outside Trump's Florida getaway club
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. - A small sinkhole has opened on the road just outside President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida. The Palm Beach Post reports (http://pbpo.st/2rL9SQu ) that the...
May 22, 2017
After 9 months in space, mouse sperm yield healthy mice
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - After nine months in space, mouse sperm has yielded healthy mice, Japanese scientists reported Monday. The freeze-dried sperm samples were launched in 2013 to the International ...
May 22, 2017
Three lawsuits allege foot-dragging by Fox on harassment
NEW YORK - Three new lawsuits Monday allege racial discrimination or sexual harassment at Fox News, deepening the network’s legal woes. The cases increase to 23 the number of past or present Fox...
May 22, 2017
Climate change taking toll on clarity of Lake Tahoe water
CRYSTAL BAY, Nev. - Climate change is causing Lake Tahoe to warm sooner in the spring than it has historically, disrupting the normal mixing of shallow and deep water and undercutting gains made in re...
May 22, 2017
Jet owned by Elvis to be auctioned after sitting 30 years
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - A private jet once owned by Elvis Presley and featured on the National Geographic Channel is set to be auctioned after sitting on a runway in New Mexico for 30 years. The red 1962 ...
May 22, 2017
Jury selection begins for man accused of killing Baby Doe
BOSTON - Jury selection began Monday in the murder trial of a man charged in the killing of a 2-year-old girl whose image was shared by millions of social media users after her body washed up on a Bos...
May 22, 2017
First lady Melania Trump visits leading Israeli hospital
JERUSALEM - U.S. first lady Melania Trump on Monday visited a leading Israeli hospital that is also known as a centre of coexistence between Arabs and Jews. Mrs. Trump was in Jerusalem with President ...
May 22, 2017
Mom of twins killed in fire while she bought pot gets jail
BATAVIA, N.Y. - A New York woman whose twin toddler sons died in a fire while she went to buy marijuana has been sentenced to a year in jail. Twenty-five-year-old Heather Ace received the maximum sent...
May 22, 2017
Ford taps former office furniture executive to be new CEO
DEARBORN, Mich. - The job of Ford’s new CEO won’t be easy: He will have to shore up the 114-year-old company’s traditional auto business, but also invest in self-driving cars and oth...
May 22, 2017