Category Archives: CP_World
After US pushback, AT&T prepares to fight for Time Warner
NEW YORK - Seeing an attempt by to block its buyout out of Time Warner as a “radical” departure by the U.S. government, AT&T is preparing for a fight to see the $85 billion deal throug...
Nov 21, 2017
German police retrieve 100 stolen John Lennon items
BERLIN - A cigarette case, a handwritten musical score, three diaries and two pairs of John Lennon’s signature metal-rimmed glasses were among stolen goods belonging to the Beatles’ star t...
Nov 21, 2017
Kathy Griffin: Trump photo put me on 'Hollywood blacklist'
Kathy Griffin says she is in the middle of a “Hollywood blacklist” after taking a photo holding a fake severed head that resembled President Donald Trump. The comedian is currently on a wo...
Nov 21, 2017
Rapper Nelly's planned Saudi gig sparks social media stir
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia - Rapper Nelly is to perform in Saudi Arabia next month, but his planned concert in the ultraconservative kingdom is not being welcomed by everyone. Some Saudis on social media ar...
Nov 21, 2017
New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu working on book about race
NEW YORK - New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu is working on a book about his views on race and his support for taking down four Confederate monuments earlier this year. Viking told The Associated Press ...
Nov 21, 2017
Police: Woman confessed to putting babies in concrete in 90s
TOKYO - A Japanese woman was arrested Tuesday after police say she confessed to putting four newborns in concrete-filled buckets two decades ago and having been filled with guilt over not caring for h...
Nov 21, 2017
Manson has endured as the face of evil for nearly 50 years
LOS ANGELES - Other killers snuffed out far more lives than Charles Manson did in 1969. Yet he has endured for nearly a half century as the personification of evil, even in an age in which mass shooti...
Nov 21, 2017
US first loosened limits on lion trophies, then elephants
WASHINGTON - One month before the Trump administration sparked outrage by reversing a ban on trophies from threatened African elephants, federal officials quietly loosened restrictions on the importat...
Nov 21, 2017
A look at the 4 countries the US says sponsor terrorism
TOKYO - North Korea is on its way back onto a very short list of countries the United States says sponsor terrorism. The designation, announced by President Donald Trump on Monday, will expand the alr...
Nov 21, 2017
Myanmar treatment of Rohingya called apartheid in new report
BANGKOK - Myanmar has subjected Rohingya Muslims to long-term discrimination and persecution that amounts to “dehumanizing apartheid,” Amnesty International said Tuesday in a report that r...
Nov 21, 2017