Category Archives: World
Pineapple, cheese, raisins, oil: Prison loaf varies by state
SMYRNA, Del. - Special meals prepared for prison inmates for misbehaviour related to food or bodily waste go by a variety of names, including nutraloaf, alternative meal plan, and behaviour modified m...
Jan 31, 2017
'Baked slop': Delaware sticks to prison loaf; others end use
SMYRNA, Del. - Dinner is served in cellblock 18, and one can’t help but approach it with trepidation. It’s finger food - not even sporks allowed - sitting unadorned on a piece of brown pap...
Jan 31, 2017
Speaker defends Trump's order, warns of protests
WASHINGTON - House Speaker Paul Ryan on Tuesday defended President Donald Trump’s divisive executive order on refugees and immigration, arguing that while the rollout was bumpy, the policy is co...
Jan 31, 2017
A look at the reported top contenders for the Supreme Court
President Donald Trump is scheduled to announce his nominee for the Supreme Court Tuesday night. Neil Gorsuch, Thomas Hardiman and William Pryor are the three federal appeals court judges who are seen...
Jan 31, 2017
No free lunch: Donors come forward to erase students' debts
Ashley C. Ford felt driven to act by a sad fact of life in the nation’s school cafeterias: Kids with unpaid lunch accounts are often embarrassed with a substitute meal of a cold cheese sandwich ...
Jan 31, 2017
Famous San Francisco baseball bar to close, future uncertain
San Francisco is girding for a legal showdown over one of its most beloved and now shuttering institutions: a baseball memorabilia bar in tourist-heavy Union Square named for legendary batter and city...
Jan 31, 2017
New Indonesia tsunami network could add crucial minutes
JAKARTA, Indonesia - Indonesia’s tsunami detection system, made up of seafloor sensors that communicate with transmitting buoys on the surface, has been rendered useless by vandals and lack of f...
Jan 31, 2017
US consumer confidence slips in January from 15-year high
WASHINGTON - U.S. consumer confidence slipped this month after surging to a 15-year high in December. The Conference Board, a business research group, says its consumer confidence index dropped to 111...
Jan 31, 2017
Asian shares mostly higher on strong manufacturing data
TOKYO - Shares were mostly higher in Asia on Wednesday, lifted by upbeat manufacturing data from China and Japan. The U.S. dollar was steady, regaining some lost ground after falling on comments by Pr...
Jan 31, 2017
Gov. John Kasich of Ohio will have book out in April
NEW YORK - Ohio Gov. John Kasich, a prominent Republican detractor of President Donald Trump, has a book deal. Thomas Dunne Books says Tuesday that Kasich’s “Two Paths: America Divided or ...
Jan 31, 2017
