Category Archives: World
In high-tax states, worries about pain from GOP tax plan
SOUTH ORANGE, N.J. - Homeowners in high-tax states like New Jersey, where a modest house within commuting distance of New York City can easily carry property taxes of over $15,000 a year, are wonderin...
Nov 03, 2017
Massachusetts 1st to ban bump stocks since Vegas shooting
BOSTON - Massachusetts on Friday became the first state to impose a ban on bump stocks since the deadly shooting at a Las Vegas music festival. An appropriations bill that included a prohibition on th...
Nov 03, 2017
Mayor won't be charged for jumping ahead of concert traffic
TINLEY PARK, Ill. - A suburban Chicago mayor won’t face criminal prosecution after he shouted “mayor coming through” and removed police traffic cones to allow a party bus he was ridi...
Nov 03, 2017
JFK files say rumours of CIA link to Oswald 'unfounded'
WASHINGTON - Government documents newly released Friday regarding John F. Kennedy’s assassination say allegations that Lee Harvey Oswald was connected to the CIA were “totally unfounded.&#...
Nov 03, 2017
NYPD says it is building rape case against Harvey Weinstein
New York City police said Friday that an actress’ rape allegations against Harvey Weinstein are credible, and if the movie mogul were in the state and the accusation more recent, they would move...
Nov 03, 2017
Inside story: How Russians hacked the Democrats' emails
WASHINGTON - It was just before noon in Moscow on March 10, 2016, when the first volley of malicious messages hit the Hillary Clinton campaign. The first 29 phishing emails were almost all misfires. A...
Nov 03, 2017
Court asked to reconsider defamation suit against Bill Cosby
BOSTON - A woman who says Bill Cosby raped her decades ago wants a federal appeals court to reconsider her defamation case against the comedian. Kathrine McKee’s attorney is asking the full 1st ...
Nov 03, 2017
US rate for gun deaths is up for the second straight year
NEW YORK - The U.S. rate for gun deaths has increased for the second straight year, following 15 years of no real change, a government report shows. Roughly two-thirds of gun deaths are suicides and t...
Nov 03, 2017
Renaming Asia: Trump admin opts for 'Indo-Pacific'
WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump isn’t just remaking American foreign policy in Asia by tearing up trade deals and getting tough on North Korea. His administration is giving the region a whol...
Nov 03, 2017
How about a vasectomy? Uganda wants more men to say yes
KAMPALA, Uganda - When Martin Owor, a father of six, told his wife he was considering having a vasectomy, she told him it was out of the question. How would they live as husband and wife after his sur...
Nov 03, 2017