Category Archives: World
Reactions to Tuesday's Academy Awards nominations
Reactions to nominations for the 89th annual Academy Awards, announced Tuesday from Beverly Hills, California: “I was trying not to care but caring quite a lot. And then my British agent called ...
Jan 24, 2017
Backpage.com lawyers want executives' pimping charges tossed
SACRAMENTO, Calif. - The operators of Backpage.com pushed for pimping charges to be tossed out for the second time Tuesday, two weeks after the website that prosecutors dubbed an online brothel stoppe...
Jan 24, 2017
Special toilet at U. Mich. takes aim at urine-to-fertilizer
ANN ARBOR, Mich. - The University of Michigan sees value in urine. And it wants to know if others do, too. The Ann Arbor school announced Tuesday that it has installed a toilet and urinal in a campus ...
Jan 24, 2017
Nebraska senator could face expulsion for online behaviour
LINCOLN, Neb. - A Nebraska state senator could face expulsion from the Legislature for a pattern of questionable behaviour that includes cybersex on a state computer and posting a joke on Twitter impl...
Jan 24, 2017
Girl says she was kept in basement prison with chains, cuffs
TOLEDO, Ohio - A 14-year-old girl who says she escaped a basement where she was chained and handcuffed by two relatives who she says touched her sexually, confronted the two men in court Tuesday. The ...
Jan 24, 2017
Alaska Democrat proposes gun bill after airport shooting
JUNEAU, Alaska - A deadly airport shooting in Florida has helped spur a bill in Alaska that would allow authorities to temporarily take away guns from people deemed to be a danger to themselves or oth...
Jan 24, 2017
Wildlife officials kill cougars preying on pets in Oregon
SALEM, Ore. - In a scenario that could come from a B movie, normally timid mountain lions are forced by heavy snows into a remote community, where they feast on pets and chickens. It’s happening...
Jan 24, 2017
No charges for 2 LAPD officers in killing of black man
LOS ANGELES - Two Los Angeles police officers acted in self-defence and will not face criminal charges after fatally shooting a mentally ill black man during a struggle over an officer’s gun in ...
Jan 24, 2017
Sentencing delayed for man convicted of Texas attack plot
PHOENIX - Sentencing was postponed Tuesday for an American-born Muslim convert convicted of supporting the Islamic State group and helping to plot a 2015 attack on a Prophet Muhammad cartoon contest i...
Jan 24, 2017
First legal Cuban cargo in more than 50 years arrives in US
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. - The first legal cargo from Cuba in more than 50 years has arrived in the United State. The Miami Herald (https://goo.gl/PZLZz8 ) reports that two containers of artisanal charco...
Jan 24, 2017
