Category Archives: World
Congressman quits post in GOP group over health care bill
WASHINGTON - A New Jersey Republican congressman who helped push the House health care bill to passage quit his post Tuesday as a chairman of the chamber’s moderate Tuesday Group, criticizing co...
May 23, 2017
US says Fiat Chrysler used software to beat emissions tests
DETROIT - The U.S. government is suing Fiat Chrysler, alleging that some diesel pickup trucks and Jeep SUVs cheat on emissions tests. The lawsuit filed Tuesday by the Justice Department alleges that n...
May 23, 2017
New roller coaster replaces the one Sandy plunged into sea
SEASIDE HEIGHTS, N.J. - Nearly five years after Superstorm Sandy plunged a roller coaster into the sea in what became one of the storm’s most enduring images, the ride has been replaced - safely...
May 23, 2017
Graduation day bittersweet for slain black scholar's friends
COLLEGE PARK, Md. - A black Bowie State University student who police say was fatally stabbed by a white stranger was honoured Tuesday at the commencement ceremony where he would have walked across th...
May 23, 2017
Police find Nazi items, explosives during murder probe
Investigators found white supremacist propaganda, bomb-making materials and a framed photograph of Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh at a Florida apartment where a teenager killed two roommates who...
May 23, 2017
Dina Merrill, heiress and actress, dead at 93
NEW YORK - Dina Merrill, the rebellious heiress who defied her super-rich parents to become a movie star, often portraying stylish wives or “the other woman,” has died at age 93. Merrill, ...
May 23, 2017
Disruptive passenger in Trump cap delays Shanghai flight
BEIJING - A disruptive passenger on a United Airlines flight from Shanghai to New Jersey was asked to get off the plane in a politically tinged altercation, resulting in an unscheduled stop in San Fra...
May 23, 2017
High court ruling may give voter rights groups a strong tool
RALEIGH, N.C. - The Supreme Court’s ruling that two North Carolina congressional districts relied too heavily on race should give voting-rights advocates a potent tool to fight other electoral m...
May 23, 2017
In Syria's devastated twin towns, tears mix with rubble
ZABADANI, Syria - Arriving with her husband and 10-year-old daughter to check on their home for the first time in five years, Adibeh Ghosn had trouble recognizing the neighbourhood. In disbelief, she ...
May 23, 2017
Only on AP: CEO pay climbed faster last year, up 8.5 per cent
NEW YORK - The typical CEO at the biggest U.S. companies got an 8.5 per cent raise last year, raking in $11.5 million in salary, stock and other compensation last year, according to a study by executi...
May 23, 2017
