Category Archives: World
Georgia losing patience with drug treatment tourists
RINGGOLD, Ga. - In the northwest corner of Georgia, where cows and crops vastly outnumber people, a small cluster of privately owned treatment centres has sprung up in recent years for heroin and pres...
May 03, 2017
Low-income, minority students lag in high school grad rates
WASHINGTON - Despite rising national graduation rates, low-income and minority students continue to lag behind their peers in finishing high school, according to a study released Wednesday. While the ...
May 03, 2017
Trump on Mideast peace: 'We will get it done'
WASHINGTON - Despite bleak prospects for success, President Donald Trump promised on Wednesday “to do whatever is necessary” to forge an Israeli-Palestinian peace deal. At a White House me...
May 03, 2017
Joyful House Republicans vote to repeal reviled 'Obamacare'
WASHINGTON - Delivering at last, triumphant House Republicans voted Thursday to repeal and replace the “Obamacare” health plan they have reviled for so long, overcoming united Democratic o...
May 03, 2017
Obama unveils vision for presidential library in Chicago
CHICAGO - Former President Barack Obama unveiled plans for his future presidential centre Wednesday, painting a picture of a buzzing hub for youth and community programs on the South Side of Chicago w...
May 03, 2017
UK jury finds student guilty of planting bomb on London Tube
LONDON - A university student with an interest in weapons and extremism has been found guilty of planting a home-made bomb on a busy London subway train. Damon Smith, 20, faces years in jail after a j...
May 03, 2017
Somali minister shot dead by auditor general's bodyguards
MOGADISHU, Somalia - Bodyguards for Somalia’s auditor general shot dead a government minister near the presidential palace on Wednesday evening, police said. Capt. Mohamed Hussein said bodyguard...
May 03, 2017
Police: 2 dead in suspected murder-suicide at Texas college
IRVING, Texas - Two people died Wednesday in an apparent murder-suicide at a Texas community college, prompting an active-shooter alert that instructed students and employees to barricade themselves i...
May 03, 2017
Artists across US take to stage to protest Trump policies
PRINCETON, N.J. - In 1921, Congress passed an emergency immigration law limiting the number of foreigners allowed into the United States based on their country of birth, a fearful backlash to the incr...
May 03, 2017
Puerto Rico turns to courts for debt protection
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico - Puerto Rico’s governor turned to the courts Wednesday to protect the U.S. territory from its crushing $73 billion debt in the largest effort ever made by a U.S. governmen...
May 03, 2017
