Category Archives: World
Judge: Newest travel ban 'same maladies' as previous version
HONOLULU - Just hours before President Donald Trump’s latest travel ban was to take full effect, a federal judge in Hawaii blocked the revised order, saying the policy has the same problems as a...
Oct 18, 2017
Puerto Rico youth stranded with school still out from storm
HATILLO, Puerto Rico - Alanys Arroyo and her little brothers have been cooped up in a school for weeks, but they aren’t in class. They’ve been living in a campus-turned-shelter in western ...
Oct 18, 2017
Amnesty: Myanmar army killed at least hundreds of Rohingya
BANGKOK - Myanmar security forces killed hundreds of men, women and children during a systematic campaign to expel Rohingya Muslims, Amnesty International said in a new report Wednesday that calls for...
Oct 18, 2017
Trump says Comey knew he was going to exonerate Clinton
WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump took to Twitter on Wednesday to revive his long-standing complaint about the FBI’s handling of the Hillary Clinton email server investigation, alleging that t...
Oct 18, 2017
Under fire, Trump defends call to soldier's grieving family
MIAMI - President Donald Trump emphatically rejected claims Wednesday that he was disrespectful to the grieving family of a slain soldier, as the firestorm he ignited over his assertions of empathy fo...
Oct 18, 2017
CIA watchdog nominee scolded for lack of preparation
WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump’s nominee to be the CIA’s independent watchdog has told Congress that he’s never read the Senate’s so-called torture report, an exhaustive, ...
Oct 18, 2017
Wildfires worsen housing crunch in famously costly Bay Area
SANTA ROSA, Calif. - Even before fire wiped out the home she rented for 17 years, Suzanne Finzell had thought about leaving this city on the edge of the San Francisco Bay Area because of rising prices...
Oct 18, 2017
Texas man's execution halted amid alleged confession scheme
HUNTSVILLE, Texas - A judge on Wednesday halted the execution of a man known as the Houston area’s “Tourniquet Killer” so authorities can investigate an alleged scheme in which the i...
Oct 18, 2017
Harry Potter exhibit marks 20th anniversary of first book
LONDON - Harry Potter fans owe a debt of gratitude to Alice Newton. Alice was 8 years old when her father, a Bloomsbury Publishing executive, brought home a new manuscript for her to read. “The ...
Oct 18, 2017
Police: 1 dead after man gives toddler gun to chase victim
WARRENVILLE, S.C. - Authorities say they have charged a man with murder after he gave a 3-year-old boy a gun and told him to chase the victim around the yard of a South Carolina home. Aiken County She...
Oct 18, 2017