Category Archives: World
143 arrested after protest blocks St. Louis highway traffic
ST. LOUIS - Police arrested 143 people after protesters blocked traffic on a busy highway near downtown St. Louis as part of the ongoing demonstrations against the acquittal of a white former police o...
Oct 06, 2017
Last known body recovered from rubble after Mexico quake
MEXICO CITY - The last body known to be trapped in rubble has been recovered two weeks after a magnitude 7.1 earthquake killed at least 369 people in Mexico, officials said Wednesday. The body was rec...
Oct 06, 2017
Tillerson denies he weighed resigning or called boss 'moron'
WASHINGTON - Secretary of State Rex Tillerson declared Wednesday he never considered resigning as President Donald Trump’s top diplomat, disputing what he called “erroneous” reports ...
Oct 06, 2017
Michelle Obama decries lack of diversity in politics
PHILADELPHIA - Michelle Obama says the lack of diversity among some segments of the political landscape is a reason that “people don’t trust politics.” The former first lady made the...
Oct 06, 2017
Judge tosses lawsuit by Jared Fogle's ex-wife against Subway
LEBANON, Ind. - An Indiana judge has thrown out a lawsuit filed by former Subway pitchman Jared Fogle’s ex-wife, which alleged that the fast-food chain continued promoting Fogle as its spokesman...
Oct 06, 2017
Survey: US services sector improved at best pace in 12 years
WASHINGTON - U.S. services companies in September expanded at the strongest rate in dozen years as a measure for new orders climbed sharply. The Institute for Supply Management said Wednesday that its...
Oct 06, 2017
Suicide attack on police station in Syrian capital kills 17
BEIRUT - Two suicide bombers stormed a police station in the Syrian capital on Monday, killing at least 17 civilians and police, state TV reported, while a drone strike in eastern Syria killed 10 Hezb...
Oct 06, 2017
Las Vegas high-rise shooting scenario a security nightmare
NEW YORK - A Las Vegas shooter’s perch in a 32nd-floor hotel room overlooking 22,000 people jammed into a country music festival below is just the kind of nightmare scenario police dread in plac...
Oct 06, 2017
'I wasn't ready to die,' Vegas victim says from hospital bed
LAS VEGAS - Tubes connecting to veins in her arms, Natalie Vanderstay clutches a pillow to her stomach, over the spot where a bullet entered her body. Blankets cover the leg that was ripped apart, doc...
Oct 06, 2017
Analysis: If attacks aim to divide US-Cuba, they're working
WASHINGTON - When Americans started falling ill last year in Havana, the victims of eerie, invisible attacks, investigators seized on a key question: Who had the motive to drive the United States and ...
Oct 06, 2017