Category Archives: World
Pool party gunman called ex-girlfriend during deadly rampage
SAN DIEGO - A gunman distraught over a recent breakup calmly reclined in a pool chair as he shot strangers at a birthday party and phoned his ex-girlfriend so she could hear the gunfire and screams of...
May 01, 2017
Watchdog to Trump: Accountability not red carpet for Duterte
MANILA, Philippines - A U.S.-based human rights group says President Donald Trump should not roll out the White House red carpet for Philippine leader Rodrigo Duterte, whom it accused of being a ̶...
May 01, 2017
Vermont chocolatier sends residents on golden ticket hunt
BRATTLEBORO, Vt. - A Vermont town is giving away golden tickets courtesy of its local chocolatier and the prize is free parking for a year, not a tour of a chocolate factory. The limited edition choco...
May 01, 2017
16 dead after tornadoes, floods ravage Midwest, South
ST. LOUIS - Several southern states braced for more severe weather Monday in the wake of storms, tornadoes and flooding that claimed 16 lives and left authorities in Arkansas searching for two childre...
May 01, 2017
With Obama, Clinton gone, GOP revives Pelosi as boogeyman
ATLANTA - Move over Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, Republicans have a new campaign boogeyman. Well, sort of new. It’s more of an encore for Nancy Pelosi, the 77-year-old House Democratic lead...
May 01, 2017
Israel official: 870 Palestinians remain on hunger strike
RAMALLAH, Palestinian Territory - Popular support for a hunger strike by hundreds of Palestinians imprisoned by Israel has been gaining momentum with West Bank marches, sit-ins and a social media camp...
May 01, 2017
Ellen DeGeneres, Steve Harvey among top Daytime Emmy winners
LOS ANGELES - “The Ellen DeGeneres Show” won the Daytime Emmy Award for best entertainment talk show, 20 years to the day that her character came out as gay on the sitcom “Ellen.R...
Apr 30, 2017
4 dead, including gunman, after shooting at Topeka home
TOPEKA, Kan. - Police say four men are dead - including the suspected gunman - after a shooting at a home in Topeka, Kansas, that is part of a private business providing in-home care for people with s...
Apr 30, 2017
John Legend named 1st recipient of new social justice award
SALEM, Mass. - John Legend is expected on a Massachusetts college campus this week to receive a social justice award. The singer-songwriter becomes the first recipient of the Salem Advocate for Social...
Apr 30, 2017
French forces kill 20 jihadists on Mali-Burkina Faso border
BAMAKO, Mali - French forces fighting extremism in Africa’s Sahel region say they have killed at least 20 jihadists in a forest on the border between Mali and Burkina Faso. A statement Sunday fr...
Apr 30, 2017
