Category Archives: World
Judge removes fatal shooting from ex-Tulsa officer's record
TULSA, Okla. - The first-degree manslaughter case brought against a white former Oklahoma police officer who was acquitted in the fatal shooting of an unarmed black man will be removed from her record...
Oct 26, 2017
Trump on Xi: "Now some people might call him the king"
WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump spoke Wednesday with Chinese President Xi Jinping, congratulating Xi on beginning a second, five-year term as leader. China’s ruling Communist Party this week...
Oct 26, 2017
Art magazine publisher resigns over sexual harassment suit
NEW YORK - A publisher of a renowned art magazine resigned Wednesday, the same day a former employee filed a lawsuit accusing him of sexually harassing her for years. The New York Times reports the su...
Oct 26, 2017
Laptop in Las Vegas shooter's suite was missing hard drive
LAS VEGAS - A laptop found inside the Las Vegas gunman’s hotel suite after he carried out the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history was missing a hard drive, a federal official told The...
Oct 26, 2017
Clerical sex abuse disclosures skyrocket in pope's Argentina
CASEROS, Argentina - Karen Maydana says she was 9 years old when the Rev. Carlos Jose fondled her at a church pew facing the altar. It was her first confession ahead of her first Holy Communion. She b...
Oct 26, 2017
Upstart Republican now in headlights of Arizona Senate race
PHOENIX - The upstart tea party Republican who challenged Arizona Sen. John McCain last year and then set her sights on the state’s junior senator is suddenly in the national spotlight. Former s...
Oct 26, 2017
Late Fats Domino mined New Orleans roots in pioneering music
NEW ORLEANS - Fats Domino didn’t look like a typical teen idol. He stood 5-feet-5 and weighed more than 200 pounds, with a wide, boyish smile and a haircut as flat as an album cover. But Domino ...
Oct 26, 2017
States lose push to force Trump to restart health subsidies
SAN FRANCISCO - A U.S. judge on Wednesday rejected a request from 18 states and the District of Columbia to force the Trump administration to resume paying “Obamacare” subsidies right away...
Oct 25, 2017
Absent-minded shopper takes cart with baby, causing lockdown
PORTLAND, Maine - Police say an absent-minded shopper at a Maine grocery store took somebody else’s cart with a sleeping baby inside, causing a lockdown and a police investigation. Portland poli...
Oct 25, 2017
Reactions to the death of rock pioneer Fats Domino
NEW YORK - Reactions to the death of Fats Domino, the rock ‘n’ roll pioneer who died Tuesday at age 89: “He was one of my greatest inspirations. God was tops - but earthly, Fats was ...
Oct 25, 2017