Category Archives: World
Dutch justice minister resigns weeks before elections.
THE HAGUE, Netherlands - The Dutch security and justice minister resigned Thursday amid allegations that he was involved in withholding information from lawmakers, a potentially damaging blow to the a...
Jan 26, 2017
Trump proposes big import tax, triggering fight with Mexico
WASHINGTON - Determined to wall off America’s border with Mexico, President Donald Trump triggered a diplomatic clash and a fresh fight over trade Thursday as the White House proposed a 20 per c...
Jan 26, 2017
Global shares drift as euphoria over Dow's 20k breach fades
LONDON - European shares traded in narrow ranges Friday as the momentum generated by the Dow Jones’ breach of the 20,000 mark for the first time faded and following news the U.S. economy lost mo...
Jan 26, 2017
Iranian actress boycotts Oscars to protest Trump
NEW YORK - Iranian actress Taraneh Alidoosti, star of the Oscar-nominated “The Salesman,” says she won’t attend the Academy Awards in protest of President Donald Trump’s immigr...
Jan 26, 2017
AP source: Border Patrol chief says he's been forced out
WASHINGTON - The man charged with protecting America’s borders was ousted Thursday, one day after President Donald Trump announced ambitious plans to build a massive wall at the Mexican border a...
Jan 26, 2017
Mexican president cancels planned DC meeting with Trump
MEXICO CITY - Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto cancelled a planned Tuesday meeting with President Donald J. Trump on Thursday, signalling a remarkable souring of relations between Washington and o...
Jan 26, 2017
India.Arie defends Chrisette Michele's inaugural performance
India.Arie is defending Chrisette Michele’s decision to sing at an inaugural ball for President Donald Trump. Arie says in an open letter posted on TwitLonger on Wednesday that she “never&...
Jan 26, 2017
US new-home sales tumble in December
WASHINGTON - Americans pulled back sharply from buying new homes in December, but sales for all of 2016 were the highest since 2007. The Commerce Department said Thursday that new-home sales last mont...
Jan 26, 2017
Markets Right Now: US stocks drift mostly lower; Dow gains
NEW YORK - The latest on developments in financial markets (All times local): 4:00 p.m. U.S. stock indexes ended mostly lower, except for the Dow Jones industrial average, which climbed slightly a day...
Jan 26, 2017
Federal judge rejects Ohio's new lethal injection process
COLUMBUS, Ohio - Ohio’s efforts to restart executions, including a law shielding the source of its drugs, hit a new setback Thursday as a federal judge declared the state’s latest lethal i...
Jan 26, 2017
