Category Archives: World
What's next for Brazil's Temer following corruption charge?
SAO PAULO - Embattled in Congress and unpopular on the streets, President Michel Temer has now been charged with corruption by Brazil’s top prosecutor in the wake of a plea bargain signed by exe...
Jun 27, 2017
Officials: Shooter scare at Army base was false alarm
HUNTSVILLE, Ala. - A security scare that shut down an Alabama Army base and sparked fears of a shooting was a false alarm, the military said Wednesday. A statement released by Redstone Arsenal said so...
Jun 27, 2017
Inmate: I strangled prisoners to try to land on death row
COLUMBIA, S.C. - One by one, Denver Simmons recalled, he and his partner lured inmates into his cell. William Scruggs was promised cookies in exchange for doing some laundry; Jimmy Ham thought he was ...
Jun 27, 2017
UN: Colombia disarmament process for individual arms ends
MESETAS, Colombia - The United Nations says it has concluded the disarmament process for individual arms as part of a peace deal between Colombia’s leftist rebels and the government. At a ceremo...
Jun 27, 2017
Pandora CEO Tim Westergren departs
NEW YORK - The co-founder and CEO of Pandora, under intensifying pressure from Spotify and Apple Music, has relinquished his position and will step down from the company board as well. Westergren, who...
Jun 27, 2017
Longtime editor of venerable Yale Review stepping down
NEW YORK - The longtime editor of one of the world’s oldest literary publications is stepping down. J.D. McClatchy, a prize-winning poet and librettist, told The Associated Press he is leaving T...
Jun 27, 2017
Minor New York City subway derailment causes outage, delays
NEW YORK - A subway train derailed near a station in Harlem on Tuesday, frightening passengers, causing minor injuries to seven people and leading to massive systemwide delays. Joe Lhota, the chairman...
Jun 27, 2017
Consumer confidence rises in June
WASHINGTON - U.S. consumers became more confident in June -with more Americans pleased by current conditions but slightly less hopeful about what the next six months hold. The Conference Board, a busi...
Jun 27, 2017
German museum presents artworks from collector's trove
BERLIN - A small number of artworks from a reclusive German collector’s trove have been presented in Bonn in preparation for a wider exhibition. News agency dpa reported that the German cityR...
Jun 27, 2017
New cyberattack wallops Europe; spreads more slowly in US
PARIS - A new and highly virulent outbreak of data-scrambling software - apparently sown in Ukraine - caused disruption across the world Tuesday. Following a similar attack in May , the fresh cyber-as...
Jun 27, 2017
