Category Archives: World
Ex-presidents' hurricane concert raises additional $2.6M
COLLEGE STATION, Texas - A concert attended by the five living former presidents to benefit victims of hurricanes has raised about $2.6 million in addition to $31 million collected before it took plac...
Oct 24, 2017

Senate passes $36.5B disaster aid bill; Trump signature next
WASHINGTON - The Senate passed a $36.5 billion emergency aid measure Tuesday to refill disaster accounts, provide a much-needed cash infusion to Puerto Rico, and bail out the federal flood insurance p...
Oct 24, 2017
Papers believed to be lost in Holocaust go on display in US
NEW YORK - The American public is getting a chance to view newly discovered Jewish documents that had been presumed destroyed during the Holocaust. Ten documents brought over from Lithuania went on di...
Oct 24, 2017
University president's hot sauces benefit scholarship fund
GLASSBORO, N.J. - The president of a New Jersey university is using his culinary skills and his hot sauces to help raise money for student scholarships. Rowan University president Ali Houshmand has be...
Oct 24, 2017

Federal court clears way for immigrant teen to get abortion
WASHINGTON - A federal appeals court on Tuesday cleared the way for a 17-year-old immigrant held in custody in Texas to obtain an abortion. The full U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia ...
Oct 24, 2017
Polish band members plead not guilty to raping woman on bus
SPOKANE, Wash. - All four members of a Polish heavy metal band have pleaded not guilty to charges of kidnapping and raping a woman on their tour bus after a concert this summer in Washington state. Th...
Oct 24, 2017

GOP Sen. Flake, a vocal Trump critic, won't seek re-election
WASHINGTON - Republican Sen. Jeff Flake announced Tuesday he would not seek re-election next year, delivering a forceful condemnation of the “flagrant disregard of truth and decency” and b...
Oct 24, 2017
Woman says she slipped on sandwich leftovers, sues store
DOVER, Del. - A Delaware judge says a woman who says she slipped on the remnants of a sandwich can continue her lawsuit against a popular convenience store chain. Lisa Donovan says she slipped and fel...
Oct 24, 2017
Conde Nast drops Terry Richardson after misconduct claims
LONDON - Conde Nast International says it is severing ties with Terry Richardson, the U.S. fashion photographer who has faced allegations of sexual misconduct. The company’s magazines include Vo...
Oct 24, 2017
Pussy Riot members stage protest inside Trump Tower
NEW YORK - Members of the Russian punk collective Pussy Riot have staged a protest at Trump Tower in New York City to draw attention to the plight of Ukrainian filmmaker Oleg Sentsov, who is incarcera...
Oct 24, 2017