Category Archives: World
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
Russian National Guard officer kills 4 comrades, shot dead
MOSCOW - The Russian National Guard says one of its officers shot and killed four other servicemen at a barracks in the Russian republic of Chechnya before guards fatally shot him. The agency said in ...
Oct 23, 2017
Trump's candidate stirs no love in Virginia's Trump country
POUND, Va. - People in Virginia’s coal country still love President Donald Trump, but not his pick to be their next governor. Ed Gillespie is a Washington insider and Trump’s choice as Vir...
Oct 23, 2017
Trump, Abe set golf date for start of US leader's Asia tour
TOKYO - Donald Trump will start his first trip to Asia as president next month in somewhat predictable fashion: with a round of golf. Prime Minister Shinzo Abe told Trump in a phone call Monday that a...
Oct 23, 2017
Who killed Kim Jong Un's half brother? Here's what we know
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia - Eight months after the audacious assassination of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un’s estranged half brother, a Malaysian court is trying to unweave a complicated web of d...
Oct 23, 2017
In response to far right, LGBTQ gun group hits firing line
ROCHESTER, N.Y. - The former pacifist pumped a shotgun at the firing line. Lore McSpadden never touched a gun before the Trigger Warning Queer & Trans Gun Club started this past year. Now McSpadde...
Oct 23, 2017
Murder trial starts for man who stoked US immigration debate
SAN FRANCISCO - A Mexican national who touched off a debate on illegal immigration when he fatally shot a woman on a San Francisco pier fired the gun on purpose, a prosecutor said Monday in her openin...
Oct 23, 2017
Somali diaspora: Blast won't stop effort to rebuild homeland
MINNEAPOLIS - Like many Somalis displaced by decades of civil war, Mohamoud Elmi felt he had a duty to use what he learned in America to help rebuild his homeland. After getting a business administrat...
Oct 23, 2017
Doctor: Conjoined twins born in Gaza will need care abroad
GAZA, Palestinian Territory - A Palestinian doctor says a rare pair of conjoined twins born in the Gaza Strip is in good health, but will need treatment abroad. Dr. Allam Abu Hamda, a neonatal special...
Oct 23, 2017
Macron's dog pees on Elysee Palace fireplace as cameras roll
PARIS - French President Emmanuel Macron’s dog Nemo interrupted a meeting his master was having with members of his government when he urinated against a fireplace in the Elysee Palace. French T...
Oct 23, 2017