Category Archives: World
Review board wants another look at police shooting decision
CHARLOTTE, N.C. - A review board Tuesday found “substantial evidence of error” in a North Carolina police department’s decision that the fatal shooting of a black man by an officer l...
Jun 28, 2017
2 train conductors struck, killed on tracks in Washington
WASHINGTON - Two conductors who got out of their freight train to follow up on an alert that there was a problem with one or more of its wheels were struck and killed by a passenger train near Washing...
Jun 28, 2017
Total solar eclipse 1st in 99 years to sweep width of US
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - This August, the U.S. will experience its first coast-to-coast total solar eclipse in 99 years. Total solar eclipses occur every year or two or three, often in the middle of now...
Jun 28, 2017
Correction: Solar Eclipse-Kentucky story
HOPKINSVILLE, Ky. - In a story June 28 about preparations for the solar eclipse in a small Kentucky town, The Associated Press reported erroneously, based on information from NASA, the number of peopl...
Jun 28, 2017
Washington Post: March 2009 Time cover of Trump is phoney
WASHINGTON - A Time magazine cover featuring Donald Trump hangs on the walls of at least four of the president’s golf clubs, in Florida, Virginia, Ireland and Scotland. But closer inspection rev...
Jun 28, 2017
Michigan sues Flint after council refuses to OK water deal
LANSING, Mich. - The state of Michigan sued Flint Wednesday, alleging that the city council’s refusal to approve a broadly backed deal to buy water long term from a Detroit-area system is endang...
Jun 28, 2017
Lawsuits over new Utah monument to test president's power
SALT LAKE CITY - Native American tribes and environmental groups preparing for a legal battle to stop President Donald Trump from dismantling Utah’s new national monument face a tougher challeng...
Jun 28, 2017
Rising violence takes huge psychological toll in Rio favelas
RIO DE JANEIRO - Almir Arruda rode his bicycle quickly across the City of God slum in Rio de Janeiro when he heard there was a shootout between drug traffickers and police near his 4-year-old daughter...
Jun 28, 2017
Trump says 'oui' to French leader's Bastille Day invitation
WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump plans to celebrate Bastille Day in France. The White House announced Wednesday that Trump has accepted French President Emmanuel Macron’s invitation to help c...
Jun 28, 2017
US demands more security on international flights to US
WASHINGTON - The Homeland Security Department is demanding that airlines around the world step up security measures for international flights bound for the United States or face the possibility of a t...
Jun 28, 2017
