Category Archives: World
Tom Petty a rock classicist from the beginning
NEW YORK - Given the leather jacket and sneer Tom Petty wore on the cover of his 1976 debut, many people assumed he was one of those cheeky punks bent on tearing down the walls of rock ‘n’...
Oct 03, 2017
Acts of heroism emerge in chaos of Las Vegas shooting
LAS VEGAS - Rob Ledbetter’s battlefield instincts kicked in quickly as bullets rained overhead. The 42-year-old U.S. Army veteran who served as a sniper in Iraq immediately began tending to the ...
Oct 03, 2017
Trump calls Las Vegas shooter 'sick' and 'demented man'
WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump on Tuesday called the gunman who killed 59 people and wounded hundreds others at a music festival in Las Vegas a “very, very sick individual.” Trump spo...
Oct 03, 2017
Trump sees 'miracle' Puerto Rico survival, ignores critics
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico - Touring a small slice of Hurricane Maria’s devastation, President Donald Trump congratulated Puerto Rico on Tuesday for escaping the higher death toll of “a real ca...
Oct 03, 2017
Once an obscure device, 'bump stocks' are in the spotlight
ATLANTA - The Las Vegas gunman possessed a little-known device called a “bump stock” that was not widely sold - until now. Originally created with the idea of making it easier for people w...
Oct 03, 2017
For many hotels, terror risks make tight security routine
In many parts of the world, the constant fear of extremist attacks has led to tighter security measures at hotels and resorts, but that is less so in the United States, where hotels are reluctant to i...
Oct 03, 2017
GOP leader says NRA-backed gun bill shelved indefinitely
WASHINGTON - House Republican leaders called for unity and prayer Tuesday after the deadly mass shooting in Las Vegas, but offered no new legislation to tighten gun laws and said a bill to ease regula...
Oct 03, 2017
Einstein proof: Nobel winners find ripples in the universe
WASHINGTON - For decades astronomers tried to prove Albert Einstein right by doing what Einstein thought was impossible: detecting the faint ripples in the universe called gravitational waves. They fa...
Oct 03, 2017
Kurdish leader Talabani, onetime hope for Iraqi unity, dies
IRBIL, Iraq - As he stepped into office in 2005 to become Iraq’s first Kurdish president, Jalal Talabani told his followers, “I am casting off my Kurdish clothes and wearing Iraqi ones ins...
Oct 03, 2017
Families detail victims' lives: 'Nothing but good memories'
A son remembered a mother’s laugh. Elementary school employees wore red, white and blue to honour a beloved receptionist. A wife recalled her husband’s ultimate devotion: losing his life t...
Oct 03, 2017