Category Archives: World
Police officials: Taliban run over a district headquarters
KANDAHAR, Afghanistan - Taliban insurgents overran a district police headquarters in northeastern Afghanistan after two days of intense fighting that left scores of casualties on both sides, Kunduz pr...
May 6, 2017
Jury: Man convicted of 6 killings should get death penalty
YUMA, Ariz. - A jury decided Friday that an Arizona prisoner convicted of killing six people in Yuma in 2005 should be sentenced to death. Jurors reached their decision after several hours of delibera...
May 5, 2017
Country legend Loretta Lynn hospitalized after having stroke
NASHVILLE - Country music legend Loretta Lynn has been hospitalized after having a stroke, her publicist said Friday. Maria Malta, a publicist for Sony Music, confirmed that the 85-year-old singer and...
May 5, 2017
Club owner who turned Sunset Strip into rock heaven dies
LOS ANGELES - Mario Maglieri, the Hollywood entrepreneur who doubled as a godfather figure to generations of rock stars from the Doors’ Jim Morrison to Guns ‘N Roses’ Axl Rose, has d...
May 5, 2017
Trump team's curious query tripped concerns about Flynn
WASHINGTON - In late November, a member of Donald Trump’s transition team approached national security officials in the Obama White House with a curious request: Could the incoming team get a co...
May 5, 2017
CBS, NBC also refuse to air Trump advertisement
NEW YORK - CBS and NBC have joined CNN in refusing to air an advertisement that lists President Donald Trump’s accomplishments while blaming the “fake news” media for not reporting o...
May 5, 2017
New Mexico governor reconvenes lawmakers in budget showdown
SANTA FE, N.M. - Republican New Mexico Gov. Susana Martinez ordered a special session of the Legislature on Friday to resolve a grinding state budget crisis, with no sign of a compromise with leading ...
May 5, 2017
Trump: Australian health care system better than US
BRANCHBURG, N.J. - President Donald Trump’s praise of Australia’s government-funded health care system has raised the ire of Sen. Bernie Sanders, a leading advocate of such single-payer sy...
May 5, 2017
Quick guide: The French presidential election
PARIS - A quick guide to the logistics of the winner-takes-all final round of voting Sunday that will elect France’s new president: ___ THE ELECTION: Just two candidates: Emmanuel Macron, 39, a ...
May 5, 2017
French presidential choice: Risk Le Pen or settle for Macron
PARIS - After an election campaign like no other, France is about to have a president like no other: either Marine Le Pen, a far-right populist who could reshape Europe’s post-war order and beco...
May 5, 2017