Category Archives: World
Town coffers crumble along with a region's home foundations
WILLINGTON, Conn. - As the foundation beneath their home crumbles, Christina Mailhos and her husband are trying to figure out how to come up with $200,000 or more for the massive fix while college tui...
May 15, 2017
Man gets 49 years for anti-transgender hate crime killing
GULFPORT, Miss. - A Mississippi man received a 49-year prison sentence Monday for the first-ever conviction on federal hate crime charges arising from the killing of a transgender woman. In a case wat...
May 15, 2017
Pizza delivery man takes pie to stalled Amtrak train
NEWPORT, Del. - A pizza delivery man in Delaware got an order from an unusual address: a stalled Amtrak train from New York on its way to Washington. Passenger Mitchell Katz posted a video of delivery...
May 15, 2017
First lady: Barron to attend private Episcopal school in MD
WASHINGTON - First lady Melania Trump has announced that her son, Barron, will attend a private Episcopal school in Maryland, beginning this fall. The announcement answered one of the lingering questi...
May 15, 2017
AP Explains: How lawmakers get their health care
WASHINGTON - Republican Sen. John McCain, a former Navy pilot who at 80 has had several health setbacks, gets his coverage from the Department of Veterans Affairs. House leaders, like Speaker Paul Rya...
May 15, 2017
AP Explains: North Korea missile test is huge step forward
SEOUL, Korea, Republic Of - North Korea’s latest ballistic missile test may be nearly as big a deal as the country’s propaganda machine claims. Although outside experts see several places ...
May 15, 2017
The new Vegas namaste: Yoga on a Ferris wheel, near dolphins
LAS VEGAS - Surrounded by imposing Las Vegas hotel-casinos in the foreground and desert mountains in the background, the group breathed deeply and loudly as an instructor guided them through their pos...
May 15, 2017
School sex complaints to federal agency rise - and languish
HOUSTON - Hector and Itza Ayala sat in a conference room at Houston’s prestigious high school for the performing arts, clutching a document they hoped would force administrators to investigate t...
May 15, 2017
Schools face vexing test: Which kids will sexually attack?
The children who sexually assault other children may be the popular jocks, the loners or anyone in between. There is no typical attacker, no way for schools to predict who might inflict that kind of t...
May 15, 2017
Erdogan visits Trump, amid much friction between US, Turkey
WASHINGTON - The United States is on a collision course with its NATO ally Turkey, pushing ahead with arming Syrian Kurds after deciding the immediate objective of defeating Islamic State militants ou...
May 15, 2017
