Category Archives: World
Police: Escaped inmate captured while drinking Gatorade
ASHEVILLE, N.C. - Police in North Carolina have captured an escaped inmate after they found him drinking a Gatorade while sitting outside a doctor’s office. Buncombe County Sheriff Van Duncan to...
Nov 02, 2017
Trump nominates Jerome Powell to be next Fed chairman
WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump tapped Jerome Powell on Thursday to replace Janet Yellen as Fed chair when her term ends in February, choosing a moderate member of the Fed’s board who has ba...
Nov 02, 2017
Alaska kennel of Iditarod champ in doping scandal probed
ANCHORAGE, Alaska - Alaska investigators say no evidence of animal cruelty was found after an animal rights group complained about a kennel operated by four-time Iditarod champion Dallas Seavey, who w...
Nov 02, 2017
Settlement pending in Ventura's case against 'Sniper' author
MINNEAPOLIS - Former Minnesota Gov. Jesse Ventura and the estate of “American Sniper” author Chris Kyle are apparently working toward a settlement in Ventura’s yearslong defamation c...
Nov 02, 2017
Rick Gates: A Trump survivor is tested by Mueller probe
NEW YORK - Inside Trump Tower, some knew Rick Gates as “the walking dead.” He had somehow survived the ouster of his closest campaign ally, chairman Paul Manafort, and Donald Trump himself...
Nov 02, 2017
Correction: Bin Laden Files-Iran story
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates - In a story Nov. 2 about the CIA’s release this week of documents seized during the 2011 raid that killed al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden, The Associated Press incor...
Nov 02, 2017
DC bar offers $5 'Moscow Mueller' drinks for indictments
WASHINGTON - A Washington restaurant is offering a special $5 “Moscow Mueller” drink every time special counsel Robert Mueller indicts an associate of President Donald Trump. The Bird DC p...
Nov 02, 2017
Election dramas exhaust Kenya, where democracy is challenged
NAIROBI, Kenya - Distraught Kenyan schoolgirls huddled against an alleyway wall, trapped between stone-throwing protesters and police wielding clubs and firing tear gas in an outbreak of violence foll...
Nov 02, 2017
Under pressure, social media giants acknowledge meddling
WASHINGTON - In three exhaustive hearings this week, executives from Facebook, Twitter and Google acknowledged that their platforms were used by Russia to try and create division over such disparate i...
Nov 02, 2017
AP FACT CHECK: Trump's post-attack blame game
WASHINGTON - The deadly New York truck attack prompted President Donald Trump to go looking for someone to blame beyond the man accused of doing it. He settled, at least for a time, on Sen. Chuck Schu...
Nov 02, 2017