Category Archives: World
California surfer makes board using 10,000 cigarette butts
SAN JUAN CAPISTRANO, Calif. - A California surfer has won a recycled surfboard contest with an entry covered with 10,000 cigarette butts. “This is the most polluted item picked up on the beach,&...
Oct 23, 2017
Oregon state senator: Sexual harassment common in Capitol
SALEM, Ore. - A female state senator who accused a male colleague of inappropriate touching said Monday she’s heard accounts from other women in the Oregon state capitol of such behaviour by men...
Oct 23, 2017
Women on trial visit scene of attack on North Korean scion
SEPANG, Malaysia - The two women accused of killing the half brother of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un were taken back to the scene of the crime on Tuesday as their murder trial moved from the courtr...
Oct 23, 2017
White House: Kelly needn't apologize to Florida Rep. Wilson
WASHINGTON - White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders says chief of staff John Kelly doesn’t need to apologize to Florida congresswoman Frederica Wilson. Wilson had accused President D...
Oct 23, 2017
Hong Kong democracy activists Wong, Law freed on bail
Hong Kong’s highest court freed pro-democracy activists Joshua Wong and Nathan Law on bail Tuesday pending an appeal of their prison sentences after they were convicted of sparking massive prote...
Oct 23, 2017
Iowa withdraws proposal to opt out of Affordable Care Act
DES MOINES, Iowa - Iowa officials withdrew a proposal Monday that sought to pull out of the Affordable Care Act and redirect federal money toward lowering premiums for younger participants under a sep...
Oct 23, 2017
Pharmacists cited for trying to see Prince's medical records
INDIANAPOLIS - Three Indiana pharmacists have been reprimanded by state regulators for trying to access Prince’s medical records within days of the music superstar’s death last year. The I...
Oct 23, 2017
Kelly on O'Reilly: Abuse, shaming of women has to stop
NEW YORK - Megyn Kelly took on her former Fox News Channel colleague Bill O’Reilly in blunt terms on Monday, revealing she had gone to her bosses to complain about O’Reilly’s behavio...
Oct 23, 2017
Star chef Besh steps down amid sexual harassment allegations
New Orleans celebrity chef John Besh stepped down from management of the restaurant group that bears his name after a newspaper reported that 25 women who are current or former employees of the busine...
Oct 23, 2017
New York attorney general launches probe of Weinstein Co.
ALBANY, N.Y. - State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman announced a civil rights investigation on Monday into The Weinstein Co. following sexual harassment and assault allegations against its co-found...
Oct 23, 2017