Category Archives: World
Judge blocks Texas cutting Medicaid to Planned Parenthood
AUSTIN, Texas - A federal judge ruled Tuesday that Texas can’t cut off Medicaid dollars to Planned Parenthood over secretly recorded videos taken by anti-abortion activists in 2015 that launched...
Feb 21, 2017
Houston police: No injuries amid reports of hospital gunfire
HOUSTON - No one was found injured and there was no evidence that a shooting happened amid reports of gunfire Tuesday inside a hospital at the Texas Medical Center in Houston, authorities said. “...
Feb 21, 2017
Milo Yiannopoulos resigns as editor of Breitbart Tech
NEW YORK - Polarizing right-wing writer Milo Yiannopoulos resigned as an editor at Breitbart News on Tuesday and apologized for comments he had made about sexual relationships between boys and men. Yi...
Feb 21, 2017
Mariners' Martin tells of threats in Cuban smuggling trial
MIAMI - Seattle Mariners outfielder Leonys Martin told a Miami jury Tuesday he crossed the U.S.-Mexico border without any valid papers because he feared being kidnapped or worse after he was smuggled ...
Feb 21, 2017
Marlins' Hechavarria back on stand in Cuban smuggling trial
MIAMI - It’s a second day of testimony for Miami Marlins shortstop Adeiny Hechavarria in the trial of a Florida sports agent and a baseball trainer accused of smuggling players out of Cuba. Hech...
Feb 21, 2017
Mosquito saliva vaccine? NIH tests new way to fight illness
WASHINGTON - Wanted: 60 people willing to be bitten by mosquitoes to test a new kind of vaccine - one that acts against the bugs’ saliva. Rather than separate vaccines against Zika or other mosq...
Feb 21, 2017
Judge orders R&B singer Chris Brown to stay away from ex
LOS ANGELES - A judge has ordered R&B singer Chris Brown to stay away from his ex-girlfriend after she accused him of repeatedly threatening her. The Grammy winner was ordered to stay 100 yards aw...
Feb 21, 2017
Jill Biden named board chair of aid group Save the Children
NASHVILLE - Dr. Jill Biden, educator and wife of former Vice-President Joe Biden, has been named board chair of Save the Children. Biden, who still teaches English to college students, said she was ho...
Feb 21, 2017
Follow that horse: German police track manure to culprit
BERLIN - Police in Bavaria say they were able to track down a man responsible for a hit-and-run by following the hoof prints and manure left behind by the horse pulling his carriage. Police in Grafenr...
Feb 21, 2017
Artists seek $1.25 million for Bowie memorial in London
LONDON - Artists and activists want to create a permanent memorial to David Bowie in the London neighbourhood where he was born. Plans were unveiled Tuesday for a three-story-tall lightning bolt sculp...
Feb 21, 2017
