Category Archives: CP_World

US employers add robust 304K jobs in sign of durable economy
WASHINGTON - U.S. employers shrugged off last month’s partial shutdown of the government and engaged in a burst of hiring in January, adding 304,000 jobs, the most in nearly a year. The healthy ...
Feb 01, 2019
Foster parents of slain toddler take in his newborn sister
LARGO, Fla. - The newborn sister of a 2-year-old Florida boy who police say was killed by his mother is now in the care of his former foster parents. Jordan Belliveau lived with Sam and Juliet Warren ...
Feb 01, 2019
Boko Haram kills at least 60 in Nigeria attack: Amnesty
DAKAR, Senegal - Boko Haram has killed at least 60 people in a “devastating” attack on the northeastern Nigeria border town of Rann, Amnesty International said Friday, calling it one of th...
Feb 01, 2019

Women will surround Trump at State of the Union address
WASHINGTON - Pelosi behind and above. Female immigrants, gazing down from the balcony. A black woman who ran a close race for governor of Georgia, rebutting. When President Donald Trump delivers his f...
Feb 01, 2019

Grammys launch initiative aiding women producers, engineers
NEW YORK - The Recording Academy’s Task Force on Diversity and Inclusion is launching a new initiative to create and expand more opportunities to female music producers and engineers. The academ...
Feb 01, 2019

Iran begins marking 40th anniversary of Islamic Revolution
TEHRAN, Iran - Iran on Friday began celebrations to mark the 40th anniversary of the 1979 Islamic Revolution that toppled the U.S.-backed shah, overturned 2,500 years of monarchical rule and brought h...
Feb 01, 2019

Olympic champion among 12 Russian athletes guilty of doping
LAUSANNE, Switzerland - Olympic high jump champion Ivan Ukhov was among 12 Russian track and field athletes found guilty Friday of taking part in state-backed doping. The Court of Arbitration for Spor...
Feb 01, 2019

Gladys Knight on why she'll sing the anthem at Super Bowl
ATLANTA - Gladys Knight says her singing the national anthem at the Super Bowl will bring people together. NBC’s “Today” show reported Friday that Knight wrestled with whether to joi...
Feb 01, 2019

'Jane the Virgin' creator sees tears, closure for show's end
PASADENA, Calif. - The upcoming final season of “Jane the Virgin” is already drawing tears. The CW show’s creator, Jennie Snyder Urman, said she’s crying in the editing room as...
Feb 01, 2019

3 students killed in South Africa school walkway collapse
JOHANNESBURG - At least three students are dead and 23 injured after a walkway collapsed at a school outside Johannesburg, South African officials said Friday. Panyaza Lesufi, the head of education fo...
Feb 01, 2019