Category Archives: World
Vegemite goes home: Oreo maker sells to Australia's Bega
CANBERRA, Australia - Vegemite, the salty, brown spread beloved in Australia, is going home, purchased by an Australian dairy company from the maker of Oreos. Mondelez International Inc. said Wednesda...
Jan 18, 2017
Alaska volcano erupts again, sends ash cloud to 31,000 feet
ANCHORAGE, Alaska - An Alaska volcano active since mid-December has erupted again. Bogoslof Volcano in the Aleutian lslands erupted at 1:20 p.m. Wednesday and sent up an ash cloud estimated at 31,000 ...
Jan 18, 2017
Judge revokes bail for hip-hop podcast host in murder case
NEW YORK - A judge has revoked bail for a hip-hop podcast host arrested in connection with a New York City concert venue shooting that left a rapper’s bodyguard dead. A Manhattan federal court j...
Jan 18, 2017
Investigators: Shooting victim saved by plate in neck
TAHLEQUAH, Okla. - Investigators say a metal plate in an Oklahoma man’s neck saved him from paralysis or worse when he was shot. Robert Thurman told 911 dispatchers Friday that his sister Gretch...
Jan 18, 2017
President-elect Donald Trump escalates Tom Ford fashion dis
The Wynn Las Vegas hotel has stopped selling Tom Ford cosmetics and sunglasses and President-elect Donald Trump declared on television it is because of the designer’s dis over dressing his wife,...
Jan 18, 2017
California withdraws immigrant health care request
SACRAMENTO, Calif. - California officials on Wednesday withdrew their request to sell unsubsidized insurance policies to people who can’t prove they’re legally in the United States after l...
Jan 18, 2017
Ice storm paralyzes parts of Oregon, Washington state
TROUTDALE, Ore. - An ice storm shut down major highways Wednesday in Oregon and Washington state and paralyzed towns in the Columbia River Gorge with up to 2 inches of ice at the same time rising temp...
Jan 18, 2017
Key players in Iran nuke deal aim message at Trump: It works
The United Nations, the European Union and key players in the Iran nuclear agreement delivered a united message Wednesday aimed at U.S. President-elect Donald Trump: The deal is working and must be ma...
Jan 18, 2017
Inaugural crowds sure to be huge - but how huge?
WASHINGTON - Donald Trump says his inauguration will have “an unbelievable, perhaps record-setting turnout.” Organizers of a protest the next day call it the biggest demonstration in histo...
Jan 18, 2017
WikiLeaks' Julian Assange retreats from extradition pledge
PARIS - WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange retreated from his pledge to accept extradition to the U.S. if Chelsea Manning was granted clemency, arguing Wednesday via his lawyers that what he was really ...
Jan 18, 2017
