Category Archives: World
Admin clarifies, again, travel ban rules for legal residents
WASHINGTON - Legal permanent U.S. residents from seven countries whose citizens are covered by a three-month American travel ban won’t need special permission to come back to the United States a...
Kayla Derkach Feb 01, 2017
2 federal lawsuits resolved in Chicago on Trump travel ban
CHICAGO - Lawsuits filed by two Chicago residents saying they were unlawfully prevented from re-entering the U.S. by President Donald Trump’s executive order have been resolved. Attorneys for Dr...
Kayla Derkach Feb 01, 2017

GOP Idaho lawmakers push bill banning Islamic law in courts
BOISE, Idaho - Republican lawmakers in Idaho again are pushing legislation designed to prevent state courts or government agencies from making decisions based on Islamic religious law or other foreign...
Kayla Derkach Feb 01, 2017
Trump honours fallen Navy SEAL during unannounced trip
DOVER AIR FORCE BASE, Del. - Assuming the sombre duties of commander in chief, President Donald Trump made an unannounced trip Wednesday to honour the returning remains of a U.S. Navy SEAL killed in a...
Kayla Derkach Feb 01, 2017
Trump's Supreme Court unveiling draws 33 million viewers
LOS ANGELES - More than 33 million viewers watched President Donald Trump reveal his nominee for the U.S. Supreme Court. The sizeable audience may reflect how Trump handled Tuesday’s announcemen...
Kayla Derkach Feb 01, 2017
Critics don't even want animatronic Trump to speak
ORLANDO, Fla. - Some critics of President Donald Trump are so adamant in their opposition that they don’t even want a fake version of him to speak. An online petition was started last week, aski...
Kayla Derkach Feb 01, 2017
Jury convicts man who wounded black protesters in Minnesota
MINNEAPOLIS - A jury on Wednesday convicted a Minnesota man of assault for opening fire and wounding five black men demonstrating against the fatal shooting of a black man by Minneapolis police office...
Kayla Derkach Feb 01, 2017
Bill Cosby judge to hear defence request for outside jurors
NORRISTOWN, Pa. - Bill Cosby’s lawyers will make oral arguments this month on their bid to move the actor’s sexual assault trial to another Pennsylvania county. The defence fears that Mont...
Kayla Derkach Feb 01, 2017

False news, absurd reality present challenges for satirists
NEW YORK - Between reality and the bubble of fantasy news stories, these are tough times for satirists. The New Yorker magazine recently took steps to distinguish Andy Borowitz’s humour columns ...
Kayla Derkach Feb 01, 2017

Spokesman: Congolese opposition leader Tshisekedi dies at 84
KINSHASA, Congo - Congo’s opposition icon Etienne Tshisekedi, who pushed for democratic reforms for decades in the vast Central African nation throughout dictatorship and civil war, has died, hi...
Kayla Derkach Feb 01, 2017

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