Category Archives: World

Melania Trump: White House public tours to resume March 7
WASHINGTON - Sen. Chuck Grassley can tell his wife that White House public tours are resuming March 7. The tours had been temporarily suspended, which is typical when there’s a new president. Bu...
Kayla Derkach Feb 14, 2017
Ethics watchdog calls on WH to investigate Conway's comments
WASHINGTON - The U.S. government’s ethics watchdog urged the White House to investigate and possibly discipline President Donald Trump’s counsellor Kellyanne Conway for comments she made a...
Kayla Derkach Feb 14, 2017
Advocates demand New York lawmakers outlaw child marriage
ALBANY, N.Y. - Child advocates in New York are attempting to overturn a law that allows children as young as 14 years old to wed because they say it can trap minors in sexual abuse and domestic violen...
Kayla Derkach Feb 14, 2017

Group sues feds for delaying bumblebee's endangered listing
TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. - An environmental group is suing the Trump administration for delaying an endangered-species designation for the rusty patched bumblebee. The Natural Resources Defence Council sa...
Kayla Derkach Feb 14, 2017

Pick for Medicare post faces questions on Indiana contracts
INDIANAPOLIS - President Donald Trump’s pick to oversee Medicare and Medicaid advised Vice-President Mike Pence on health care issues while he was Indiana’s governor, a post she maintained...
Kayla Derkach Feb 14, 2017

Michigan orders Flint hospital to address Legionella risks
LANSING, Mich. - Michigan ordered a Flint hospital Tuesday to immediately comply with federal recommendations that were issued due to its association with a deadly Legionnaires’ disease outbreak...
Kayla Derkach Feb 14, 2017
Missouri Republican cuts mic to silence NAACP official
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - A Missouri Republican legislator has come under strong criticism for cutting the microphone to silence the head of the state’s NAACP chapter, who was speaking out at a publ...
Kayla Derkach Feb 14, 2017
Merck Alzheimer's drug fails in 1 study; another continues
KENILWORTH, N.J. - Merck & Co. will stop its study of an experimental Alzheimer’s drug in people with mild or moderate symptoms because interim results showed “virtually no chance̶...
Kayla Derkach Feb 14, 2017
Father charged in case of severely malnourished Utah boy
SALT LAKE CITY - The father of a 12-year-old Utah boy who was found severely malnourished in a feces-strewn bathroom was charged with child abuse on Tuesday, a month after the child’s mother was...
Kayla Derkach Feb 14, 2017

Records: Man to plead guilty to aiding San Bernardino attack
LOS ANGELES - The only man to be criminally charged in the San Bernardino terror attack has agreed to plead guilty to providing the high-powered rifles used to kill 14 people and injure nearly two doz...
Kayla Derkach Feb 14, 2017

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