Category Archives: World
California considers lower bar for its tough lawyer exam
SAN FRANCISCO - The State Bar of California on Monday proposed lowering the minimum score on the most recent licensing exam for attorneys amid an alarming decline in people passing the test, considere...
Jul 31, 2017
Sanders says Trump joking about police brutality
WASHINGTON - The White House defended President Donald Trump’s recent remarks that police shouldn’t be too nice when transporting suspects, saying Monday that the president was “maki...
Jul 31, 2017
What's next? New Venezuela assembly has vast powers
BOGOTA - The newly elected assembly that will rewrite Venezuela’s constitution will have nearly unlimited legal power to install an even more staunchly socialist state, but its very creation has...
Jul 31, 2017
Bernie Sanders and Larry David share some 'identical DNA'
BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. - Henry Louis Gates Jr., the host of “Finding Your Roots” on PBS, says the show “couldn’t have scripted” the discovery that actor, comedian Larry Da...
Jul 31, 2017
Notorious heroin market along train tracks to be cleaned up
PHILADELPHIA - The cleanup of an open-air heroin market that has thrived for decades along a set of train tracks miles outside the heart of Philadelphia began Monday with officials cautioning that the...
Jul 31, 2017
Texas lawmakers try again to address rising pregnancy deaths
AUSTIN, Texas - Criticized over failing earlier to address skyrocketing pregnancy-related deaths, Texas lawmakers Monday pushed with renewed urgency efforts to examine why the state’s maternal m...
Jul 31, 2017
Shkreli jury ends first day of deliberations without verdict
NEW YORK - The first day of jury deliberations at the federal securities fraud trial of Martin Shkreli ended Monday without a verdict for the former biotech CEO best known for hiking up the price of a...
Jul 31, 2017
$50M settlement approved for DuPont mercury contamination
WAYNESBORO, Va. - Chemical company DuPont will pay about $50 million under an environmental settlement that aims to make up for decades of mercury pollution one of its factories released into the Sout...
Jul 31, 2017
Drug suspect arrested after 30 years on the lam
ALEXANDRIA, Va. - After 30 years on the run, a foreign national wanted on federal drug charges has been captured. Officials from the U.S. Marshal’s Office said Monday that 68-year-old Colombian ...
Jul 31, 2017
Army corps to release delayed report on blocking Asian carp
TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. - The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers says it will release a previously delayed report on measures that could be taken at an Illinois waterway chokepoint to prevent Asian carp from r...
Jul 31, 2017
