Category Archives: World
Melania Trump wins damages from Daily Mail publisher
LONDON - U.S. first lady Melania Trump has accepted an apology and damages from the publisher of the Daily Mail newspaper for reporting rumours about her time as a model, the two parties in the lawsui...
Apr 12, 2017
Street turned to rubble shows cost of fight for Iraq's Mosul
MOSUL, Iraq - Two houses are all that remain standing on the street with no name in western Mosul, just blocks from the front lines of the battle to retake Iraq’s second-largest city from the Is...
Apr 12, 2017
'Perfect Storm' ship to be sunk next week, barring storms
CAPE MAY POINT, N.J. - The ship made famous in the book and film “The Perfect Storm” will be intentionally sunk off the New Jersey and Delaware coasts next week, assuming it doesn’t ...
Apr 12, 2017
AP FACT CHECK: Do Trump's Mar-a-Lago trips cost $3 million?
WASHINGTON - With President Donald Trump making his seventh presidential trip this weekend to his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida, government watchdogs and Democrats are once again seeing dollar signs: n...
Apr 12, 2017
Chills, spills, thrills in high-mountain quest to gauge snow
INDEPENDENCE, Calif. - We were trudging up the side of a mountain on skis to measure California’s massive snowpack when a late blast of winter stopped us in our tracks. I started the morning les...
Apr 12, 2017
El Faro's tragic ending 'burned' in investigator's mind
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. - It was just a fleeting moment, hardly noticeable amid the tumult: As the crew of the freighter El Faro fought their futile battle with a hurricane , the second mate asked the capt...
Apr 12, 2017
The El Faro's final hours: How it was done
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. - The story of the cargo ship El Faro’s final hours was reconstructed using thousands of pages of public documents, hours of testimony before the U.S. Coast Guard’s inve...
Apr 12, 2017
El Faro widow turns anguish into mission for safer ships
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. - Rochelle Hamm’s eyes fill with tears when she reads her terrified husband’s last words - uttered as the cargo freighter El Faro went down in hurricane, taking the live...
Apr 12, 2017
'I'M A GONER': El Faro's last hours as ship sails into storm
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. - Danielle Randolph squinted through rain-splattered windows as the sea freighter lunged upward sharply, then fell into the trough of a 30-foot-tall wave. The skies were black. The ...
Apr 12, 2017
Town manager who shot himself after harassment claim dies
CHRISTIANSBURG, Va. - The manager of a small Virginia town who shot himself in the head after a younger woman accused him of harassment died on Wednesday, a town official said. Christiansburg Town Man...
Apr 12, 2017
