Category Archives: World
2 GOP lawmakers take seats after special election wins
WASHINGTON - The Republican winner of the most expensive House race ever took her seat representing Atlanta’s outskirts Monday evening, along with a South Carolina Republican who claimed a narro...
Jun 26, 2017
Carnival champions decry Rio mayor's 'betrayal'
RIO DE JANEIRO - The president of the current champion of Rio de Janeiro’s Carnival accused Mayor Marcelo Crivella on Monday of betraying the samba schools by cutting by half the city’s su...
Jun 26, 2017
CNN accepts resignations of 3 involved in retracted story
NEW YORK - CNN accepted the resignations Monday of three journalists involved in a retracted story about a supposed investigation into a pre-inaugural meeting between an associate of President Donald ...
Jun 26, 2017
UN: Colombian rebels have handed over almost all weapons
MESETAS, Colombia - Leftist rebels in Colombia have turned over almost all of their fighters’ individual weapons as part of a historic peace deal reached with the government last year to end a h...
Jun 26, 2017
Detroit studio gets historic marker after facing demolition
DETROIT - A legendary recording studio in Detroit that once welcomed artists such as Aretha Franklin and Miles Davis has received a historic marker just four years after being targeted for demolition....
Jun 26, 2017
Pharmacy boss blamed for meningitis outbreak gets 9 years
BOSTON - The co-owner of a pharmacy responsible for the deaths of 76 people was sentenced Monday to nine years in prison after he tearfully apologized to victims who described watching their loved one...
Jun 26, 2017
'Like bombs': Bankrupt company's air bags still out there
Takata’s lethally defective air bags proved to be the company’s undoing Monday. But it could take years to get the dangerous devices off the road in the U.S. and around the world. Crushed ...
Jun 26, 2017
Not quite warp speed: Speeding man had alien doll passenger
ALPHARETTA, Ga. - Police say a motorcycle officer who stopped a driver for speeding on a suburban highway north of Atlanta had an ‘extraterrestrial encounter’ - sort of. George Gordon, a s...
Jun 26, 2017
President's media strategy creating friction
NEW YORK - White House press secretary Sean Spicer’s briefing with reporters turned testy on Monday, with CNN’s Jim Acosta interrupting President Donald Trump’s chief spokesman to de...
Jun 26, 2017
Town limits councilman's broadcast of taps over loudspeaker
GLEN ROCK, Pa. - A Pennsylvania town councilman who broadcasts taps at his home through loudspeakers every night must limit the activity. The Glen Rock Borough Council voted Wednesday to restrict Coun...
Jun 26, 2017
