Category Archives: World
Collins: Trump should back effort to resume health subsidy
WASHINGTON - A key moderate Republican is urging President Donald Trump to support a bipartisan Senate effort to reinstate insurer payments, calling his move to halt the subsidies an immediate threat ...
Oct 16, 2017
Hurricane Ophelia's remnants to batter UK, Ireland
LONDON - Authorities in Ireland have closed schools, courts and government buildings amid concerns about potential damage from the remnants of Hurricane Ophelia. Ireland’s meteorological service...
Oct 16, 2017
McCain condemns 'half-baked, spurious nationalism' in speech
PHILADELPHIA - U.S. Sen. John McCain jabbed Monday night at unnamed pushers of isolationist politics, saying at his National Constitution Center Liberty Medal ceremony in Philadelphia that abandoning ...
Oct 16, 2017
Thousands in Puerto Rico shelters after hurricane
TOA BAJA, Puerto Rico - Arden Dragoni and his family lost everything when Hurricane Maria ravaged across Puerto Rico last month. Only a few walls of their wooden home still stand. Their clothes, furni...
Oct 16, 2017
Forest-thinning project saved homes but highlights obstacles
SISTERS, Ore. - Lightning started a forest fire one August afternoon near this Oregon tourist town, and it was spreading fast. Residents in outlying areas evacuated as flames marched toward their home...
Oct 16, 2017
Houses spared by massive fires bring joy and sense of loss
SANTA ROSA, Calif. - Tom and Catherine Andrews live on the edge of devastation. On one side of their mid-century style home, the deadly wildfires that ravaged parts of Northern California for more tha...
Oct 16, 2017
California fire evacuees spend sleepless nights at shelters
SANTA ROSA, Calif. - Barking dogs, loud snorers and a woman who appears to have dementia crying out every night. Trying to sleep on a cot in a shelter for fire evacuees is not easy. Nicole Lonefight s...
Oct 16, 2017
Trump voters in storm-ravaged county confront climate change
PORT ARTHUR, Texas - The church was empty, except for the piano too heavy for one man to move. It had been 21 days since the greatest storm Wayne Christopher had ever seen dumped a year’s worth ...
Oct 16, 2017
Malaysia rolls out red carpet for Qatar's emir
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia - Malaysia on Monday rolled out the red carpet for Qatar’s emir, who is on his first trip to Southeast Asia four months after a diplomatic crisis erupted between his natio...
Oct 16, 2017
Trump tax plan paints pretty picture for art collectors
WASHINGTON - For art aficionados, President Donald Trump’s tax plan paints a pretty picture. The president’s tax overhaul proposal - which he has pitched as a boost for hardworking farmers...
Oct 16, 2017