Category Archives: World
Slammer Sale: States find closed prisons can be a tough sell
ALBANY, N.Y. - Perched atop an Adirondack mountain, the 325-acre site for sale seems to have everything a developer could want: spectacular views, a man-made lake, close proximity to the tourist desti...
Mar 17, 2017
As Trump touts Guantanamo, civilian prosecutors notch wins
NEW YORK - Admitted al-Qaida operative Ibrahim Suleiman Adnan Harun is just the type of “bad dude” that Donald Trump has said should be locked up at Guantanamo Bay. Maybe in the future, th...
Mar 17, 2017
US, Asia-Pacific allies rolling out F-35 stealth fighter
HONOLULU - The U.S. and its Asia-Pacific allies are rolling out their new stealth fighter jet, a cutting-edge plane that costs about $100 million each. The U.S. Air Force this week hosted allies and p...
Mar 17, 2017
US factory production rose for 6th straight time in February
WASHINGTON - U.S. factories cranked out more autos, steel and computers in February, the sixth straight monthly increase in manufacturing output. Factory production rose a seasonally adjusted 0.5 per ...
Mar 17, 2017
High-tech backpacks open world of whales to deaf students
SAMANA, Dominican Republic - Every winter, whale-watching excursions take tourists to ride alongside humpbacks frolicking in the Caribbean. One voyage this week pursued whales for their mysterious, mu...
Mar 17, 2017
South Sudan feels the chill as Trump's foreign aid cuts loom
BIDI BIDI, Uganda - President Donald Trump’s proposed deep cuts in foreign aid could mark the retreat of U.S. support for South Sudan, a nation America enthusiastically helped to create. The wor...
Mar 17, 2017
Pope's 2013 stump speech to cardinals a blueprint for papacy
VATICAN CITY - The handwriting is tiny, barely legible and written in the author’s native Spanish. But the ideas are so familiar by now that they are easily understood. They are the handwritten ...
Mar 17, 2017
Long before new hacks, US worried by Russian spying efforts
WASHINGTON - Years before Russian intelligence agencies stood accused of interfering in the U.S. presidential election and of orchestrating a massive Yahoo data breach, there was lingerie model Anna C...
Mar 17, 2017
AP Analysis: In Asia, Tillerson ponders US-N. Korea reboot
TOKYO - Back in 1976, all it took to bring the Korean Peninsula back to the brink of a war was a brawl over an attempt to trim a poplar tree. That escalated quickly into the death of two American GIs ...
Mar 17, 2017
Judge won't toss fatal shooting video from officer's case
CHARLESTON, S.C. - Jurors will see a key piece of video evidence in the upcoming trial of a white ex-South Carolina police officer in the shooting death of a black motorist, despite the defence’...
Mar 17, 2017
