Category Archives: World
US celebrates July Fourth with parades, fireworks, hot dogs
NEW YORK - From flashy firework displays for massive crowds to small-town parades, Americans celebrated the United States’ 241st birthday in both joyous and serious ways. Tuesday’s events ...
Jul 05, 2017
Lawrence of Arabia, Rolls fans say they solved WWI mystery
STOWE, Vt. - Hidden in a non-descript barn on a Vermont backroad is an under-construction replica of the Rolls-Royce used during a critical moment in the birth of the modern Middle East by one of the ...
Jul 04, 2017
North Dakota tribes seek state help with addiction treatment
BISMARCK, N.D. - North Dakota tribes are asking state officials for more help to address the opioid epidemic on their reservations. “We’re all doing something, and it’s all good work...
Jul 04, 2017
Casket with organ tissue found on Philadelphia sidewalk
PHILADELPHIA - Police are investigating the discovery of a small casket found on a north Philadelphia sidewalk that contained some embalmed remains believed to be those of an infant or child. Police s...
Jul 04, 2017
Bulldozer scrapes chicken innards from highway after spill
JACKSON, Ga. - News outlets report that a bulldozer had to scrape raw chicken waste from an interstate in Georgia after the slippery innards spilled from a tractor-trailer. It was not immediately clea...
Jul 04, 2017
Judge in Minnesota police shooting offers jurors support
ST. PAUL, Minn. - The judge who presided over the manslaughter trial of a Minnesota police officer acquitted in the fatal shooting of black motorist Philando Castile took the unusual step of writing t...
Jul 04, 2017
Massachusetts probing what killed thousands of honeybees
REHOBOTH, Mass. - The Massachusetts’ Department of Agricultural Resources is investigating a massive honeybee kill that has almost entirely wiped out a hive of 80,000 bees. A representative from...
Jul 04, 2017
Auschwitz Memorial condemns congressman's gas chamber video
NEW ORLEANS - Officials at the Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial and Museum have criticized a Louisiana congressman for narrating part of a five-minute video from inside a former gas chamber at the Nazi con...
Jul 04, 2017
Colombia rebel boss to continue recovery from stroke in Cuba
BOGOTA - The leader of Colombia’s largest rebel movement is continuing his recovery from a light stroke in Cuba. Colombia’s government Tuesday said it had authorized Rodrigo Londono’...
Jul 04, 2017
Tensions rise between Iraqi forces and civilians in Mosul
MOSUL, Iraq - “Don’t stop!” the Iraqi special forces lieutenant yelled as a wave of fleeing civilians trudged past his position in Mosul’s Old City in the scorching heat. ̶...
Jul 04, 2017
