Category Archives: World
Group with ex-alderman, unions set to buy Chicago Sun-Times
CHICAGO - An investment group led by a former Chicago alderman along with a coalition of labour unions is close to acquiring the Chicago Sun-Times, the group’s leader said Wednesday. A deal to a...
Jul 12, 2017
Execution drug challenge survives, but Arkansas lacks doses
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. - A medical supply company’s challenge to Arkansas’ three-drug execution protocol remains alive, though the state doesn’t have enough drugs to put any inmate to dea...
Jul 12, 2017
Lawsuit accuses US of turning away asylum seekers at border
SAN DIEGO - Immigrant advocacy groups sued the U.S. government Tuesday, alleging that people fleeing persecution are frequently turned away at border crossings with Mexico when they seek asylum or exp...
Jul 12, 2017
Judge not inclined to reinstate Trump sanctuary cities order
SAN FRANCISCO - A federal judge said Wednesday he is not likely to reinstate President Donald Trump’s executive order to cut funding from cities that limit co-operation with U.S. immigration aut...
Jul 12, 2017
Trump in Paris: The curious case of his friend Jim
WASHINGTON - For all things Paris, President Donald Trump’s go-to guy is Jim. The way Trump tells it - Jim is a friend who loves Paris and used to visit every year. Yet when Trump travels to the...
Jul 12, 2017
House panel unveils foreign aid cuts, backs US-Mexico wall
WASHINGTON - House Republicans on Wednesday unveiled legislation slashing $10 billion from foreign aid, a sharp reduction but not as deep a cut as President Donald Trump wants. In a flurry of summerti...
Jul 12, 2017
Where's Rey? Despite Monopoly maker's promise, still missing
PROVIDENCE, R.I. - Where’s the character Rey in the “Star Wars” version of Monopoly? In a land far, far away, apparently. Eighteen months after game-maker Hasbro Inc. promised to add...
Jul 12, 2017
House panel seeks to block FDA 'vaping' rules
WASHINGTON - A House panel is again trying to exempt increasingly popular e-cigarettes from new Food and Drug Administration rules. The legislation approved Wednesday by the Republican-controlled Appr...
Jul 12, 2017
Study: GPS rules send California juveniles into jail cycle
LOS ANGELES - An attempt to keep California juvenile offenders out of detention centres has thrust them into a system with differing and overly strict rules that send many back behind bars for minor v...
Jul 12, 2017
Railroad safety rules raised in trial over film worker death
SAVANNAH, Ga. - A jury in the civil trial of a railroad owner accused of negligence in the 2014 death of a member of a trespassing movie crew is hearing about the railroad’s safety rules. Sarah ...
Jul 12, 2017
