Category Archives: CP_World
Mississippi utility inks deal on troubled $7.5B power plant
JACKSON, Miss. - Regulators have reached a settlement with Mississippi Power Co. on how much customers should pay for a troubled $7.5 billion power plant once touted as a model for the future of coal....
Dec 01, 2017
Judd: Women will persevere in fighting sexual harassment
LEXINGTON, Ky. - Actress Ashley Judd, whose claims against a Hollywood mogul helped set off an avalanche of sexual harassment allegations, said Friday that the fight against sexual misconduct will be ...
Dec 01, 2017
The Latest: AP sources link KT McFarland to Flynn papers
WASHINGTON - The Latest on the investigations into Trump campaign associates and Russian election interference (all times local): 5:45 p.m. Former Deputy National Security Adviser KT McFarland is an u...
Dec 01, 2017
US wants 'Pharma Bro' Shkreli to forfeit $2M Wu-Tang album
NEW YORK - The government wants to seize Martin Shkreli’s one-of-a-kind Wu-Tang Clan album. The recording that Shkreli has boasted he bought for $2 million is on a list of assets that prosecutor...
Dec 01, 2017
Trump denies Tillerson out as secretary of state
WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump on Friday denied he wants to oust Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, calling reports to that effect “fake news,” as his top diplomat brushed off speculat...
Dec 01, 2017
Cat banned from library develops social media following
ST. PAUL, Minn. - A tabby named Max has been playing a game of cat and mouse with some Minnesota college librarians. The furtive feline has been sneaking into the Macalester College library in St. Pau...
Dec 01, 2017
Trump: Dems will lose voters because they are weak on crime
WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump lashed out Friday after a jury acquitted a Mexican man in the killing of a woman on a San Francisco pier, calling the verdict “disgraceful” and suggesti...
Dec 01, 2017
Russian Deputy PM Mutko defiant about Olympic scandal
MOSCOW - In a combative mood hours before the World Cup draw, Russian Deputy Prime Minister Vitaly Mutko defended himself and his country amid an ongoing Olympic doping scandal. Mutko aimed barbs at t...
Dec 01, 2017
NBC launches review of Lauer behaviour, company response
LOS ANGELES - NBC News Chairman Andrew Lack says the company is launching an internal review into Matt Lauer’s alleged sexual misconduct and how it was able to occur. In a company-wide memo rele...
Dec 01, 2017
Michael Flynn's rise was rapid, his fall even faster
WASHINGTON - Michael Flynn was President Donald Trump’s favourite general, rapidly vaulted to prominence by his fiery speech at the 2016 Republican National Convention about jailing Hillary Clin...
Dec 01, 2017