Category Archives: World
2 suspects in France face terror charges over explosives lab
PARIS - French prosecutors on Sunday issued preliminary terror charges for two men linked to an explosives lab discovered in an apartment near Paris. Paris counter-terrorism prosecutor Francois Molins...
Sep 10, 2017
Trump action on young immigrants divides some GOP districts
MONROE, Ga. - Anthony Pham immigrated to the United States in 1982 from Vietnam and became a citizen five years later, after President Ronald Reagan signed an immigration law that sped the legalizatio...
Sep 10, 2017

Macron to visit Caribbean as France defends hurricane prep
The French government on Sunday defended its hurricane preparations for the hard-hit Caribbean islands of St. Martin and St. Barts, rejecting criticism by political opponents and by islanders who felt...
Sep 10, 2017
Stateless Mikheil Saakashvili breaks through into Ukraine
SHEHYNI, Ukraine - Mikheil Saakashvili and a small crowd of supporters shoved their way through a line of guards at the Ukrainian border Sunday, making good on the politician’s vow to return to ...
Sep 10, 2017

WHAT'S HAPPENING: Irma puts both Florida coasts in peril
MIAMI - Hurricane Irma struck Florida on Sunday, putting the entire peninsula in peril after pummeling the Keys. Both of the state’s coasts were pounded by storm surges. Thousands of people hunk...
Sep 10, 2017
The Latest: Irma inland near Tampa, still Category 2 storm
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. - The Latest on Hurricane Irma (all times local): 12:15 a.m. The National Hurricane Center says the core of Irma is now nearing Tampa in an area south of Lakeland - a community in...
Sep 10, 2017
Report: Minnesota student left to join IS group in 2015
MINNEAPOLIS - A suburban Minneapolis college student left his family while on vacation in Morocco two years ago and joined the Islamic State group in Syria, according to newly unsealed court files. Th...
Sep 10, 2017
Mexico diplomat meets with California officials, immigrants
SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Mexico’s top diplomat will make a two-day visit to immigrant-friendly California amid strained relations between his country and the U.S. over President Donald Trump’s...
Sep 10, 2017
Irma brings fears of surge, sewers and toxins to Tampa area
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. - As Irma marches up Florida’s Gulf Coast toward Tampa Bay, residents fear what the storm will do to an area that hasn’t taken a direct hit from a major hurricane sinc...
Sep 10, 2017
Bates College grant will help with children's lit diversity
LEWISTON, Maine - The federal Institute of Museum and Library Services is giving Bates College nearly $250,000 to expand programs for racial representation in children’s literature. Republican S...
Sep 10, 2017