Category Archives: World
Netanyahu questioned for 3rd time on corruption allegations
JERUSALEM - Israeli police have questioned Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for the third time as part of a corruption investigation into allegations that he improperly accepted gifts and tried to tr...
Jan 27, 2017
Class ring lost by WWII vet 73 years ago returned to family
AUDUBON, N.J. - The family of a since-deceased World War II veteran from New Jersey has been reunited with his 1938 class ring after he lost it 73 years ago while serving in the South Pacific. Nearly ...
Jan 27, 2017
Republicans divided over border wall as Trump era begins
PHILADELPHIA - Congressional Republicans leave their annual policy retreat divided over paying for President Donald Trump’s border wall, one of several thorny issues looming to trip them up as t...
Jan 27, 2017
Trump administration pulls back on HealthCare.gov ads
WASHINGTON - The Trump administration says it is pulling back advertising to promote HealthCare.gov as open enrolment draws to a close for this year. The Health and Human Services Department said in a...
Jan 27, 2017
Little girls doubt that women can be brilliant, study shows
WASHINGTON - Can women be brilliant? Little girls are not so sure. A study published Thursday in the journal Science suggests that girls as young as 6 can be led to believe men are inherently smarter ...
Jan 27, 2017
Official: Trump wants to slash EPA workforce, budget
WASHINGTON - The former head of President Donald Trump’s transition team at the Environmental Protection Agency says he expects the new administration to seek significant budget and staff cuts. ...
Jan 27, 2017
Trump, May affirm special relationship between US, UK
WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump and British Prime Minister Theresa May appeared chummy as they faced a curious world together for the first time Friday, pledging allegiance to the special relation...
Jan 27, 2017
In Trump's White House, a day of confusion and change
WASHINGTON - A meeting with lawmakers vanished from the White House schedule. A ceremonial executive order signing was abruptly cancelled. A statement about how a signature campaign promise will be pa...
Jan 27, 2017
Rogue tweeters in government could be prosecuted as hackers
WASHINGTON - Who are the federal government’s rogue tweeters, using official agency social media accounts to poke President Donald Trump? Are these acts of civil disobedience, or federal crimes?...
Jan 27, 2017
Al-Shabab, Kenya claim dozens of deaths in Somalia attack
MOGADISHU, Somalia - The al-Shabab extremist group attacked a Kenyan military base inside Somalia with a car bomb and machine-guns early Friday, and both the insurgents and Kenya’s military clai...
Jan 26, 2017
