Category Archives: CP_World
Rubio defection threatens GOP's slim majority on tax bill
WASHINGTON - The Republicans’ razor-thin margin for driving their sweeping tax package through the Senate was thrown into jeopardy Thursday when GOP Sen. Marco Rubio declared he will vote agains...
Dec 14, 2017
Disney buying much of Fox, will help it compete with Netflix
NEW YORK - Disney is buying a large part of Fox, including its movie and television studios, for about $52.4 billion, as the home of Mickey Mouse tries to meet competition from technology companies in...
Dec 14, 2017
Lawmaker who spun history of heroics ends life in suicide
FRANKFORT, Ky. - The Kentucky lawmaker’s resume included enough material for an award-winning memoir: He was a peacekeeper at the Rodney King riots in Los Angeles, a White House chaplain to thre...
Dec 14, 2017
Opponents of refugee quotas give money to bolster EU borders
BRUSSELS - The Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia announced Thursday that they plan to spend around 35 million euros ($41 million) to beef up European Union borders as they come under pressu...
Dec 14, 2017
California will set more fires to try to stop wildfires
LOS ANGELES - California’s seemingly endless cycle of wildfires is prompting authorities to make plans to set more “controlled burns” to thin forests choked with dead trees and withe...
Dec 14, 2017
Will US companies put overseas cash to work? Don't bet on it
WASHINGTON - The Republican tax plan seems about to hand a bow-tied holiday gift to some of America’s richest multinational companies, from Apple and Microsoft to Google’s parent Alphabet:...
Dec 14, 2017
Trump's security paper offers stark vision of global rivalry
WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump’s “America First” vision is a stark worldview that sees rivals battling each other for supremacy or relevance and has little use for alliances, tr...
Dec 14, 2017
Holy cow! Wandering bovine returned to Philly nativity scene
PHILADELPHIA - A cow in Philadelphia apparently wanted to be away from the manger, as it escaped twice Thursday morning from a church’s live nativity scene. Stormy, a 7-year-old brown and white ...
Dec 14, 2017
Louisiana delays parole hearing for 71-year-old inmate
BATON ROUGE, La. - In 1963, Henry Montgomery killed a sheriff’s deputy less than two weeks after his 17th birthday. A half-century later and nearly two years since the U.S. Supreme Court ruled i...
Dec 14, 2017
Bannon, undeterred, under siege from GOP after Alabama loss
NEW YORK - Former White House strategist Steve Bannon is catching blame from fellow Republicans for coughing up a safe Senate seat in deep-red Alabama and foisting damaging political advice on Preside...
Dec 14, 2017