Category Archives: World
Massive debris pile emerges from water near troubled dam
OROVILLE, Calif. - Crews worked Tuesday to clean up dirt and debris from the base of Oroville Dam and biologists rush to save stranded fish after state officials shut off the flow of water from a dama...
Feb 28, 2017
Barack and Michelle Obama have book deals
NEW YORK - Barack and Michelle Obama have book deals. The former president and first lady have signed with Penguin Random House, the publisher announced Tuesday. Financial terms were not disclosed for...
Feb 28, 2017
Efforts to repeal NC 'bathroom bill' are an at impasse again
RALEIGH, N.C. - The drive supporting a new proposal to repeal North Carolina’s “bathroom bill” is stuck in idle as Republican lawmakers and the new Democratic governor disagree about...
Feb 28, 2017
EPA chief Pruitt's ex-office given more time on emails
OKLAHOMA CITY - The chief justice of Oklahoma’s Supreme Court on Tuesday gave the state’s new attorney general more time to produce thousands of documents related to the relationship that ...
Feb 28, 2017
National Aquarium's oldest dolphin, Nani, dies at 44
BALTIMORE - The National Aquarium says its oldest Atlantic bottlenose dolphin has died. The aquarium said in a statement Tuesday that 44-year-old Nani exhibited unusual behaviour on Monday and died th...
Feb 28, 2017
Trump offers mixed messages on immigration
WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump, signalling a potential shift on a signature issue, indicated Tuesday in a private meeting with news anchors that he’s open to immigration legislation that wo...
Feb 28, 2017
Trump signs executive order on black colleges
WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump signed an executive order Tuesday aimed at signalling his commitment to historically black colleges and universities, saying that those schools will be “an ab...
Feb 28, 2017
IS using more suicide vehicles and armed drones in Mosul
CANBERRA, Australia - Islamic State fighters were increasingly using Mad Max-style suicide vehicles and commercial drones armed with grenades in their defence of the Iraqi town of Mosul, AustraliaR...
Feb 28, 2017
House GOP rejects Dem effort for info on Trump-Russia probes
WASHINGTON - House Republicans have rejected a Democratic effort to require the Justice Department to provide Congress with information about President Donald Trump’s finances and possible campa...
Feb 28, 2017
White Helmet rescue worker killed in Syria's Homs
BEIRUT - The Syrian search-and-rescue group featured in an Oscar-winning documentary announced that one of its volunteers had been killed by government artillery fire in the city of Homs Tuesday, as p...
Feb 28, 2017
