Category Archives: CP_World
Peru's abundant ruins feel the squeeze of urbanization
LIMA, Peru - From her small home near two golf courses and three slums, Gianina Rojas gazes up at a crumbling adobe pyramid, remnants of the vast Inca empire that flourished more than six centuries ag...
Nov 28, 2017
Ivanka Trump's India visit raises questions about her brand
HYDERABAD, India - Ivanka Trump described the hurdles faced by women during a speech Tuesday at a business conference in India, which is treating her trip like a royal visit. But her solo outing also ...
Nov 28, 2017
Keith Olbermann ends GQ run, retires from talking politics
NEW YORK - Keith Olbermann says he is so certain President Donald Trump will be impeached or resign that he is “retiring from political commentary in all media venues.” Olbermann has starr...
Nov 28, 2017
Alec Baldwin mixes Trump spoof with activism in Iowa speech
DES MOINES, Iowa - Alec Baldwin mixed his Emmy-winning impression of President Donald Trump and the advocacy of a serious Democratic activist Monday, headlining a state party banquet in Des Moines. Th...
Nov 28, 2017
Pope demands rights for all in Myanmar, omits 'Rohingya'
NAYPYITAW, Myanmar - Pope Francis insisted Tuesday that Myanmar’s future depends on respecting the rights of each ethnic group, an indirect show of support for Rohingya Muslims who have been sub...
Nov 28, 2017
Powell casts himself as a figure of stability for the Fed
WASHINGTON - Jerome Powell says that if confirmed as the next chairman of the Federal Reserve, he expects the Fed to continue raising interest rates gradually to support its twin goals of maximum empl...
Nov 28, 2017
Alabama Senate race gives GOP voters an uncomfortable choice
HOMEWOOD, Ala. - With two weeks to go until the Alabama election for U.S. Senate, Kathie Luckie of Hoover said she is “teetering” with her choice. A Republican, she usually supports the GO...
Nov 28, 2017
Thousands of foreign troops in Syria - but will they leave?
BEIRUT - Syria’s long-running civil war may be winding down slowly, but the country is awash in weapons and a confounding array of local militias and thousands of foreign troops, some of which m...
Nov 28, 2017
AP Was There: Cocoanut Grove nightclub fire kills 492
EDITOR’S NOTE - The flames began, witnesses said, in or around an artificial palm tree in a downstairs lounge of a Boston nightclub full of an estimated 1,000 people. It took less than two minut...
Nov 28, 2017
Sharpton: Meek Mill represents victims of the justice system
PHILADELPHIA - Rev. Al Sharpton said a broken criminal justice system is responsible for Meek Mill’s imprisonment and called Monday for the judge who sentenced the rapper to reconsider or step a...
Nov 28, 2017