Category Archives: CP_World

CVS bids $69 billion for Aetna amid health care changes
Drugstore operator CVS is making a $69 billion offer for insurer Aetna as it tries to position itself as a one-stop shop for Americans’ health care needs with prescription drugs, clinics and ins...
Dec 03, 2017

All-SEC title game on horizon? Alabama gets nod over Ohio St
Back in January 2012, the day after Alabama beat LSU in the BCS championship game, the commissioners of the FBS conferences gathered in New Orleans to discuss the future of the college football post-s...
Dec 03, 2017

Blasts fails to bring down upper section of Silverdome
PONTIAC, Mich. - A partial implosion of the Silverdome failed to bring down the upper section of the Detroit Lions’ former home as intended Sunday as demolition of the stadium began. Demolition ...
Dec 03, 2017
Trump lashes out at own FBI in a series of tweets
WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump launched a fresh attack Sunday on the credibility of his own FBI, responding to revelations that an FBI agent was removed from special counsel Robert Mueller’...
Dec 03, 2017

'Coco' tops box office for second straight week with $26.1M
NEW YORK - In a sleepy post-Thanksgiving weekend at the box office, Pixar’s “Coco” remained the top film for the second straight week while a number of Oscar contenders packed theatr...
Dec 03, 2017

Amid protests, Israeli PM asks that police bill exclude him
JERUSALEM - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday ordered his backers to reword a contentious piece of legislation that could potentially stifle a police investigation against him, in wh...
Dec 03, 2017

'Prairie Home Companion' radio show renamed 'Town Hall'
NEW YORK - “A Prairie Home Companion” is changing its name to “Town Hall” after allegations of improper conduct were made against former host Garrison Keillor. The man who repl...
Dec 03, 2017
6.0 earthquake hits Ecuador coast; no injuries reported
QUITO, Ecuador - A magnitude 6.0 earthquake struck along the coast of Ecuador Sunday in the same area where a much stronger tremor left hundreds dead last year. President Lenin Moreno said there were ...
Dec 03, 2017

UAE denies claim of Yemen missile attack against its plant
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates - The United Arab Emirates on Sunday denied a claim by Yemen’s Shiite rebels that they fired a missile toward an under-construction Emirati nuclear plant. The denial ...
Dec 03, 2017

Trump says he never asked Comey to stop Flynn probe
WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump said Sunday in a tweet that he never asked former FBI Director James Comey to stop investigating his ex-national security adviser Michael Flynn, issuing a fresh den...
Dec 03, 2017