Category Archives: CP_World
Sydney ferry named Ferry McFerryface after 'Boaty' overruled
SYDNEY, Australia - A new Sydney Harbor ferry will be christened Ferry McFerryface - Sydney’s second favourite choice after the now famous jokey Mc-moniker, Boaty McBoatface. New South Wales sta...
Nov 13, 2017
Rand Paul back in the Senate, walking gingerly after assault
WASHINGTON - Walking gingerly, Sen. Rand Paul returned to the Senate on Monday following an attack in his yard that left him with six broken ribs. The Kentucky Republican cast votes with his arms at h...
Nov 13, 2017
New sex assault allegation hits Moore; he calls it false
WASHINGTON - A second woman emerged Monday to accuse Roy Moore of sexually assaulting her as a teenager in the late 1970s, this time in a locked car, further roiling the Alabama Republican’s can...
Nov 13, 2017
Barbie makes doll of hijab-wearing Olympian Ibtihaj Muhammad
NEW YORK - The maker of Barbie has announced it will sell a doll modeled after Ibtihaj Muhammad, an American fencer who competed in last year’s Olympics while wearing a hijab. Mattel Inc. said t...
Nov 13, 2017
Analysis says Senate bill would hike taxes for 13.8 million
WASHINGTON - Promoted as needed relief for the middle class, the Senate Republican tax overhaul actually would increase taxes for some 13.8 million moderate-income American households, a nonpartisan a...
Nov 13, 2017
Quake kills 430 in Iranian border region rebuilt after war
TEHRAN, Iran - Rescuers dug with their bare hands Monday through the debris of buildings felled by an earthquake that killed more than 430 people in the border region of Iran and Iraq, with nearly all...
Nov 13, 2017
Appeals court allows partial enforcement of Trump travel ban
SEATTLE - On the same day a federal appeals court allowed part of President Donald Trump’s travel ban to take effect, advocacy groups filed a new lawsuit Monday challenging the administration...
Nov 13, 2017
House OKs bill slightly cutting former presidents' pensions
WASHINGTON - Former presidents get lucrative book deals and high-paid speaking gigs. So there’s no need for taxpayers to support them to the degree that the federal government has done in the pa...
Nov 13, 2017
Thousands protest proposal for total abortion ban in Brazil
RIO DE JANEIRO - Thousands of women marched through the streets of Rio de Janeiro on Monday to protest a recent congressional committee vote to make abortion illegal without exception in Brazil. Many ...
Nov 13, 2017
Attorneys: Topeka seeks to limit access to shooting video
TOPEKA, Kan. - The city of Topeka is trying to prevent the parents of a black man fatally shot by police from reviewing officers’ body camera footage by arguing that state law permits only his y...
Nov 13, 2017