Category Archives: World
Log in, look out: Cyber chaos may grow at workweek's start
LONDON - Employees booting up computers at work Monday could see red as they discover they’re victims of a global “ransomware” cyberattack that has created chaos in 150 countries and...
May 13, 2017
Trump threatens to cancel briefings; Spicer back at podium
NEW YORK - President Donald Trump threatened to shut down daily press briefings Friday as he sought to defend his White House from criticism of its shifting explanations and misstatements about the fi...
May 12, 2017
With 'tapes' tweet, Trump evokes Nixon's White House
NEW YORK - For the first time since an Oval Office taping system was removed by President Richard Nixon’s chief of staff nearly 44 years ago, a president has hinted that White House conversation...
May 12, 2017
Ex-baseball star Doug DeCinces guilty of insider trading
SANTA ANA, Calif. - One-time baseball star Doug DeCinces was convicted Friday of insider trading for a stock buy that earned him more than $1 million. The former Angels and Baltimore Orioles third bas...
May 12, 2017
O'Reilly speaks out, anti-Fox News activist efforts continue
NEW YORK - During an interview Friday with Glenn Beck, another former Fox News Channel personality who was the subject of an advertiser boycott, Bill O’Reilly complained of a liberal “hit ...
May 12, 2017
Lawyers: Wells Fargo created about 3.5 million fake accounts
SAN FRANCISCO - Lawyers representing aggrieved customers suing Wells Fargo have said the bank may have opened about 3.5 million unauthorized accounts, far more than bank and regulators disclosed last ...
May 12, 2017
5 immigrant women vie for Miss USA pageant title
LAS VEGAS - Five of the contestants vying for the Miss USA title have a message to immigrant girls and women watching the pageant this weekend: Set goals, work hard and don’t stay in the shadows...
May 12, 2017
Dozens of countries hit by huge cyberextortion attack
NEW YORK - Dozens of countries were hit with a huge cyberextortion attack Friday that locked up computers and held users’ files for ransom at a multitude of hospitals, companies and government a...
May 12, 2017
Captain of shipwrecked Costa cruise liner heads to jail
ROME - The Italian captain of the Costa Concordia cruise liner that crashed into a reef in 2012 and capsized, killing 32 people, was headed to a Rome prison after losing his final appeals bid Friday. ...
May 12, 2017
Man admits to duping women into sex for porn 'rehearsals'
KANSAS CITY, Mo. - A Kansas City-area man has pleaded guilty to duping dozens of women into having sex with him on camera by telling them they were rehearsing for roles in pornographic movies. The U.S...
May 12, 2017