Category Archives: World
In Google vs. the EU, a $2.7B fine could just be the start
SAN FRANCISCO - Google’s parent company Alphabet can easily afford the $2.7 billion write-down it’s taking to cover a big antitrust fine in Europe. But it might find it harder to shrug off...
Jul 24, 2017
No Fox apology in fight with New York Times about raid story
NEW YORK - Fox News Channel on Monday clarified but didn’t apologize for a weekend segment that The New York Times said falsely accused the newspaper of revealing intelligence information that e...
Jul 24, 2017
'Game of Thrones' actor who played Hodor DJs in Las Vegas
LAS VEGAS - The actor who played a gentle giant named Hodor in the HBO show “Game of Thrones” has made his Las Vegas pool party debut. The Las Vegas Review-Journal reports (http://bit.ly/2...
Jul 24, 2017
Correction: Train-SUV Collision story
NEW YORK - In a story July 24 about a federal investigation into a crash between a train and an SUV outside New York City, The Associated Press, relying on information from a U.S. official speaking on...
Jul 24, 2017
4 meetings with Russians disclosed by Jared Kushner
WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner, disclosed in a statement to members of Congress four distinct interactions with Russians during the presidential campaign and tra...
Jul 24, 2017
Dad of Hawaii boy who vanished in 1997 is sentenced in death
HONOLULU - The father of a 6-year-old Hawaii boy who disappeared two decades ago was sentenced Monday to 20 years in prison for manslaughter, fulfilling a deal with prosecutors that required him to re...
Jul 24, 2017
U2's Bono meets French President Macron to discuss poverty
PARIS - French President Emmanuel Macron has received pop singer and philanthropist Bono at the Elysee Palace in Paris for talks about poverty. Bono met with Macron for over an hour Monday to discuss ...
Jul 24, 2017
Highway Patrol: 2 dead, 6 hurt in South Dakota crash
ALCESTER, S.D. - Two people were killed and six others hurt when an 81-year-old woman drove into a group of people and then into a nursing home Monday in southeast South Dakota in an apparent accident...
Jul 24, 2017
Trump tells reporter to be "quiet"
WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump told a reporter asking questions Monday to be “quiet.” A White House reporter called out questions as Trump posed for photographs with interns in the Ea...
Jul 24, 2017
Spanish islands approve booze-free and bloodless bullfights
MADRID - Lawmakers in Spain’s Balearic Islands have banned spectators under age 18, alcohol and the killing or harming of animals at regional bullfights. A majority of left-wing deputies in the ...
Jul 24, 2017
