Category Archives: CP_World
US industrial output climbed a healthy 0.9 pct. in October
WASHINGTON - U.S. industrial production jumped a solid 0.9 per cent in October as factory activity recovered from the impact of Hurricanes Harvey and Irma. The Federal Reserve said Thursday that manuf...
Nov 16, 2017
Cards Against Humanity says it's fighting border wall
HOUSTON - The party game Cards Against Humanity says it’s bought U.S.-Mexico border land and hired a lawyer to try to stop President Donald Trump’s proposed border wall. A promotion called...
Nov 16, 2017
Egypt tries to avoid a fight as allies escalate against Iran
CAIRO - Egypt faces high expectations from Saudi Arabia and its other Gulf Arab benefactors that it will have their back as tensions rise with their rival Iran, including throwing the weight of its mi...
Nov 16, 2017
Drive-thru-window becomes squeeze-thru for McDonald's thief
COLUMBIA, Md. - A McDonald’s drive-thru window became a squeeze-thru window for a woman who apparently needed a fast food fix. A surveillance video shows her worming her way inside, helping hers...
Nov 16, 2017
Fox News' Hannity decides not to pass judgment on Roy Moore
NEW YORK - Fox News Channel host Sean Hannity ultimately said Wednesday he couldn’t be the judge of Alabama Senate candidate Roy Moore. It was an odd conclusion to a televised ultimatum. Hannity...
Nov 16, 2017
Treasury head, wife mocked for photo of them holding money
WASHINGTON - A photo of Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin and his wife posing with a sheet of new $1 bills - the first notes bearing his signature - is prompting people to poke fun at them online. The...
Nov 16, 2017
3 UCLA basketball players suspended after theft in China
LOS ANGELES - Three UCLA basketball players detained for shoplifting at three high-end stores in China publicly apologized Wednesday before coach Steve Alford announced they were being suspended indef...
Nov 16, 2017
New Ulysses Grant presidential library at home in the South
STARKVILLE, Miss. - It’s not ironic, but intentional. Ulysses S. Grant, the Union general who won the Civil War and later the presidency, is back in Mississippi in a way few would have imagined ...
Nov 16, 2017
Rohingya woman in Bangladesh helps others flee Myanmar
KUTUPALONG, Bangladesh - Zahida Begum doesn’t remember her home village, a tiny speck amid the mountains and forests of Myanmar. She was only 18 months old when her mother smuggled her across th...
Nov 16, 2017
Leonardo da Vinci's Christ painting sells for record $450M
NEW YORK - A painting of Christ by the Renaissance master Leonardo da Vinci sold for a record $450 million (380 million euros) at auction on Wednesday, smashing previous records for artworks sold at a...
Nov 16, 2017