Category Archives: CP_World
In the age of Amazon, Walmart is changing its legal name
NEW YORK - Wal-Mart Stores Inc. is changing its legal name effective Feb. 1 as it shifts away from physical stores in the age of Amazon’s increasing dominance. The world’s largest retailer...
Dec 06, 2017
Gene therapy shows promise against blood-clotting disease
Gene therapy has freed 10 men from nearly all symptoms of hemophilia for a year so far, in a study that fuels hopes that a one-time treatment can give long-lasting help and perhaps even cure the blood...
Dec 06, 2017
Clown in Congress: Brazil's Tiririca says he won't run again
RIO DE JANEIRO - A clown elected twice to Brazil’s Congress under the slogan “It can’t get any worse” apparently feels that it did. He says he is too embarrassed by his fellow ...
Dec 06, 2017
College student brings Hollywood stars to tears at breakfast
LOS ANGELES - It wasn’t Angelina Jolie or Jennifer Lawrence who got the most rousing applause at the Hollywood Reporter’s annual Women in Entertainment breakfast on Wednesday. It was a col...
Dec 06, 2017
Son of slain black man wants life in prison for ex-officer
CHARLESTON, S.C. - The son of a black motorist who was shot to death by a white former police officer asked a judge Wednesday to hand down the stiffest sentence possible: life in prison. Clutching a p...
Dec 06, 2017
Trump move on Jerusalem highlights Arab divisions
BEIRUT - Muslims across the Middle East warned Wednesday of disastrous consequences after President Donald Trump recognized Jerusalem as Israel’s capital, but in a region more divided than ever,...
Dec 06, 2017
Travel ban faces scrutiny from judges who blocked it before
SEATTLE - Three federal appeals court judges who blocked President Donald Trump’s second travel ban earlier this year had some skeptical questions about his third and latest set of restrictions ...
Dec 06, 2017
Yugoslav war crimes court wins praise from many - not Russia
The U.N. war crimes tribunal for former Yugoslavia, which is closing after 24 years, drew praise Wednesday from its president, the U.S. and many Security Council members - but not from Russia, which c...
Dec 06, 2017
Trump Jr. avoids questions about talks with father
WASHINGTON - Donald Trump Jr. refused to tell lawmakers about conversations he had with his father regarding a 2016 Trump Tower meeting with a Russian lawyer after emails detailing the meeting had bec...
Dec 06, 2017
India to phase out 'petcoke' imports after AP investigation
NEW DELHI - India’s government says it plans to phase out imports of a dirty fuel known as petroleum coke, or “petcoke,” after an Associated Press investigation found U.S. oil refine...
Dec 06, 2017