Category Archives: World
Spain: Rapper gets 1-yr sentence for tweets praising terror
MADRID - Spain’s Supreme Court has sentenced a rapper musician to a year in prison for exalting terrorism and humiliating terrorism victims in Twitter messages. In the tweets posted between 2013...
Jan 19, 2017
US home construction jumps, led by more apartment building
WASHINGTON - U.S. builders ramped up home construction in December, led by a surge of apartment building, while single-family houses lagged. Housing starts jumped 11.3 per cent last month, to a season...
Jan 19, 2017
Beijing to spend $2.7 billion on cleaning capital's air
Beijing will spend $2.7 billion to fight air pollution in the capital this year, state media reported Thursday. Part of the money will be used to close or upgrade more than 2,000 polluting factories, ...
Jan 19, 2017
The presidency is about to change - as Trump remains Trump
WASHINGTON - Donald Trump enters the White House on Friday just as he entered the race for president: defiant, unfiltered, unbound by tradition and utterly confident in his chosen course. In the 10 we...
Jan 19, 2017
Ask not why many inaugural speeches are so humdrum
WASHINGTON - Quick quiz: Recall a phrase, any phrase, from either inaugural speech of one of America’s most accomplished political orators, President Barack Obama. Come up empty? Sad! Fact is, i...
Jan 19, 2017
Energy pick vows to boost agency he had pledged to eliminate
WASHINGTON - Former Texas Gov. Rick Perry, tapped by President-elect Donald Trump to head the Energy Department, vowed to be an advocate for an agency he once pledged to eliminate and promised to rely...
Jan 19, 2017
Inaugural Things to Watch: the speech, the dress and more
WASHINGTON - From a morning stop at church through the swearing-in to the last dance of the evening, it’s going to be an inaugural marathon on Friday. Donald Trump will take Washington by storm,...
Jan 19, 2017
Trump asks some 50 senior Obama appointees to stay on
WASHINGTON - President-elect Donald Trump has asked roughly 50 senior Obama administration appointees to remain in their posts after his inauguration to ensure continuity in government, his incoming W...
Jan 19, 2017
Over 652K vehicles involved in latest Takata air bag recall
DETROIT - Thirteen automakers are recalling more than 652,000 vehicles in the U.S. in the latest round of dangerous Takata air bag inflator recalls. Automakers with recalls posted Thursday are Audi, N...
Jan 19, 2017
In grizzly country, DeVos' gun remark lands differently
CHEYENNE, Wyo. - In grizzly country, comments by President-elect Donald Trump’s nominee for education secretary that schools should have guns on campus to protect against the bears aren’t ...
Jan 19, 2017
