Category Archives: World
National security leaders say war authority sufficient
WASHINGTON - Top U.S. national security officials on Monday warned congressional Republicans and Democrats demanding a new war authorization that existing laws governing combat operations against terr...
Oct 30, 2017
Ex-Trump adviser's guilty plea poised to rattle White House
WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump dismissed George Papadopoulos on Tuesday as a “liar” and a mere campaign volunteer, but newly unsealed court papers outline the former adviser’s f...
Oct 30, 2017
Spacey apologizes after actor alleges past sexual advance
LOS ANGELES - Actor Kevin Spacey said Sunday he is “beyond horrified” by allegations that he made a sexual advance on a teen boy decades ago. The two-time Oscar winner posted on Twitter th...
Oct 30, 2017
Full recovery from California wildfires may take years
SANTA ROSA, Calif. - It will take at least months and likely years to fully recover from devastating wildfires that ripped through Northern California earlier this month, destroying at least 8,900 str...
Oct 29, 2017
UK to investigate minister who asked aide to buy sex toys
LONDON - Britain’s Cabinet Office will investigate whether an international trade minister breached conduct rules by asking his secretary to buy sex toys as widening allegations of sexual harass...
Oct 29, 2017
Spanish envoy: Catalan leader out of a job "no matter what"
MADRID - Catalonia’s deposed leader is now out of a job “no matter what he says” but could run in December’s early regional election if he hasn’t been imprisoned by then,...
Oct 29, 2017
Trump fumes as Mueller probe enters new phase with charges
WASHINGTON - Special counsel Robert Muller’s charges Monday against former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort and two other aides marked a new phase in his sprawling investigation into Russia...
Oct 29, 2017
Puerto Rico says it's scrapping $300M Whitefish contract
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico - The head of Puerto Rico’s power company said Sunday the agency will cancel its $300 million contract with Whitefish Energy Holdings amid increased scrutiny of the tiny Mo...
Oct 29, 2017
Day of Dead parade honours Mexican quake victims, rescuers
MEXICO CITY - A raised fist made of helmets, pick axes and broken rubble rolled ahead of hundreds of walking skeletons, costumed dancers and flowery floats Saturday in Mexico City’s Day of the D...
Oct 29, 2017
WWII veteran laid to rest in Illinois, 73 years after death
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. - Relatives of a World War II veteran who died in a 1944 battle in the Netherlands that was part of an Allied campaign later depicted in the movie “A Bridge Too Far” have...
Oct 29, 2017