Category Archives: World
Haley remains boldly off-message as ambassador to UN
WASHINGTON - Nikki Haley didn’t wait to take office as U.S. ambassador to the United Nations to break with the Trump administration’s foreign policy stances. At her Senate confirmation hea...
Apr 30, 2017
12 hazing complaints since 2014 confirmed at Marine base
BEAUFORT, S.C. - Officials at the Marine Corps’ training base in South Carolina say half of 24 hazing complaints investigated since 2014 have been confirmed. The Island Packet and The Beaufort G...
Apr 30, 2017
Coppola and 'Godfather' cast reunite at Tribeca Film Fest
NEW YORK - Debilitating studio battles. One miraculously still cat. Mooning contests between James Caan and Marlon Brando. These were the memories shared, 45 years later, on the making of “The G...
Apr 30, 2017
Locker room assault sparks effort to heal Idaho communities
BOISE, Idaho - Bukky Ogunrinola’s mother taught her years ago to use caution in how she dressed and presented herself in public. Being a young black woman in Idaho meant living in a world where ...
Apr 30, 2017
Beyond 100 days, Trump faces more legislative challenges
WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump would get additional military funds, but no border wall dollars under a massive spending bill that Congress agreed to Sunday night. The $1 trillion plus spending ag...
Apr 30, 2017
France's Macron honours Holocaust victims, vows 'Never again'
PARIS - Amid worries about rising nationalism, French presidential candidate Emmanuel Macron paid homage Sunday to the tens of thousands of French Jews killed in the Holocaust with a sombre, simple me...
Apr 30, 2017
Macron's startup-style campaign upends French expectations
POITIERS, France - Whether or not Emmanuel Macron wins the French presidency in next Sunday’s runoff, he has already accomplished the unthinkable. That’s thanks to an unorthodox, American-...
Apr 30, 2017
NY lawmakers hatch plan to release Trump's state taxes
ALBANY, N.Y. - New York Democrats have hatched a plan to get a look at Donald Trump’s tax records by crafting a piece of legislation designed to get at his state returns that does everything but...
Apr 30, 2017
Parents of missing UK girl still hopeful she's 'out there'
LONDON - The parents of Madeleine McCann, the 3-year-old British girl who vanished during a family vacation to Portugal in 2007, say they are still hopeful they will one day be reunited with their dau...
Apr 30, 2017
Pope to Catholics: get out, spread faith, help cholesterol
VATICAN CITY - Pope Francis is trying to energize Catholics, telling them to be active, help others, spread the faith, and that’s all good for cholesterol levels, too. Francis himself looked ful...
Apr 30, 2017
