Category Archives: World
Coverage of Comey testimony plays out with partisan spin
NEW YORK - The extensive coverage of former FBI director James Comey’s Senate testimony on Thursday gave Americans time to pause and focus on the slowly unfolding story about President Donald Tr...
Jun 08, 2017
Prosecutors: No merit to 'Making a Murderer' trial request
APPLETON, Wis. - Prosecutors say there’s no merit to a request for a new trial for a Wisconsin man who was the subject of the hit Netflix series “Making a Murderer.” Steven AveryR...
Jun 08, 2017
GOP-run House votes to roll back post-2008 financial rules
WASHINGTON - The Republican-led House approved sweeping legislation Thursday to undo much of former President Barack Obama’s landmark banking law created after the 2008 economic crisis that caus...
Jun 08, 2017
Trump to evangelicals: We're 'under siege,' will be stronger
WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump sought comfort in the figurative embrace of his evangelical supporters Thursday as the FBI director he recently fired told Congress about their conversations. The p...
Jun 08, 2017
Clinton to graduates: 'Never let anyone silence your voice'
NEW YORK - Losing the 2016 presidential election was “pretty devastating, especially considering who I lost to,” Hillary Clinton told graduates of Medgar Evers College on Thursday. But Cli...
Jun 08, 2017
Student who missed graduation over subway delay gets diploma
NEW YORK - A nursing student who celebrated a makeshift graduation on a New York City subway train after a train breakdown made him miss the actual ceremony has finally received his diploma. Hunter Co...
Jun 08, 2017
Trump election-fraud official running for Kansas governor
LENEXA, Kan. - A Kansas official who has supported President Donald Trump’s claim that millions of people may have voted illegally in last year’s election launched a campaign for governor ...
Jun 08, 2017
Ex-governor, wrestler Jesse Ventura heads back to Russian TV
MINNEAPOLIS - Former Minnesota governor and professional wrestler Jesse Ventura says he hasn’t been able to find work since his highly-publicized defamation lawsuit against “American Snipe...
Jun 08, 2017
A Trump-like Caesar assassinated on NYC stage
NEW YORK - He looks like Donald Trump, with his fluffy hair, dark suit and tie hanging below the belt. He moves like Trump. He even has a wife with a Slavic accent. And at the start of the third act, ...
Jun 08, 2017
US household wealth ticks up 1.4 per cent to $94.8 trillion
WASHINGTON - Buoyed by higher stock prices, Americans’ household net worth rose 1.4 per cent to $94.8 trillion in the first three months of this year, a trend that could support future spending....
Jun 08, 2017
