Category Archives: World
As congressional investigations wear on, some eye a finish
WASHINGTON - As congressional investigations into Russian interference in the 2016 elections wear on in the Capitol, some lawmakers are starting to wonder when - and how - the probes will end. After m...
Oct 18, 2017
325-pound woman charged with killing girl by sitting on her
PENSACOLA, Fla. - A 325-pound (150-kilogram) Florida woman is charged with killing her 9-year-old cousin by sitting on the child as punishment. Veronica Green Posey, 64, was arrested and charged with ...
Oct 18, 2017
Israel finds a welcome audience with Christian journalists
JERUSALEM - Israel’s nationalist government may be unpopular with Western liberals and much of its domestic press corps, but it has found a close friend among the world’s evangelical Chris...
Oct 18, 2017
Judge asks group in Trump lawsuit to justify right to sue
NEW YORK - A federal judge on Wednesday pressed government lawyers to explain why President Donald Trump’s ownership of hotels patronized by foreign government officials didn’t violate the...
Oct 18, 2017
Sessions defends Comey firing, dodges questions on Trump
WASHINGTON - Attorney General Jeff Sessions strongly defended President Donald Trump’s firing of James Comey, but at a Senate hearing Wednesday repeatedly declined to discuss private conversatio...
Oct 18, 2017
Up in smoke: Wildfires scorch California pot crop at harvest
GLEN ELLEN, Calif. - Desperate to see if wildfires had damaged his farm, Marcos Morales gunned his four-wheel-drive station wagon along the hidden dirt roads that crisscross Sonoma County vineyards. A...
Oct 18, 2017
Jerry Sandusky denied new trial on child sex abuse charges
HARRISBURG, Pa. - Jerry Sandusky lost a bid Wednesday for a new trial and a second chance to convince a jury he is innocent of the child sexual abuse charges that landed him in state prison to serve a...
Oct 18, 2017
Elvis house, Marilyn dresses, JFK radio up for auction
TUPELO, Miss. - Years before Elvis Presley became the King of Rock and Roll, the story goes, he lived in a small house up a hill from his elementary school in northeastern Mississippi and played with ...
Oct 18, 2017
Witness: Workplace shooter was increasingly angry, hostile
ABERDEEN, Md. - A witness to the deadly rampage inside a Maryland granite company said Thursday that the suspect, Radee Prince, had gathered a small group of his co-workers together by saying “c...
Oct 18, 2017
Nielsen says it will report on who's watching streamed shows
NEW YORK - The Nielsen company, which has long measured viewership of television programs, now says it has a way to collect and widely spread details about how many people watch programming produced b...
Oct 18, 2017