Category Archives: World
Paralyzed detective who forgave shooter eulogized as hero
NEW YORK - Steven McDonald, a police officer best known for forgiving a teenage gunman who left him paralyzed in 1986, inspired New York City by choosing a spiritual journey over self-pity and spite, ...
Jan 13, 2017
Ohio seeks drug reversing lethal injection process if needed
COLUMBUS, Ohio - Ohio’s prisons agency is trying to obtain a drug that could reverse the lethal injection process if needed by stopping the effects of another drug previously used in problematic...
Jan 13, 2017
In early GOP win on health care repeal, Congress OKs budget
WASHINGTON - Ascendant Republicans drove a budget through Congress on Friday that gives them an early but critical victory in their crusade to scrap President Barack Obama’s health care overhaul...
Jan 13, 2017
Kerry defends trade pact on last trip as top US diplomat
HO CHI MINH CITY, Vietnam - Secretary of State John Kerry, making his last trip as the top U.S. diplomat, defended the 12-nation trade pact that the incoming administration said it would scrap and urg...
Jan 13, 2017
Definitions of 'comfort women' reveal Japan-S. Korea divide
TOKYO - “Comfort women,” used by the Japanese military for sex, were present wherever the army invaded and occupied Asia countries from the early 1930s through the end of World War II. Tha...
Jan 13, 2017
Bush daughters welcome Obama's as 'former First Children'
WASHINGTON - Former President George W. Bush’s daughters, Jenna Bush Hager and Barbara Bush, have penned a letter of advice to President Barack Obama’s daughters days before the Obama fami...
Jan 13, 2017
As talks loom, 'hard Brexit' option raises fear of tariffs
LONDON - Is it cod or haddock? That’s the sort of question that will matter to Britain if it leaves the European Union’s tariff-free single market and ends up operating under rules oversee...
Jan 13, 2017
Report says Chicago police violated civil rights for years
CHICAGO - The Justice Department on Friday laid bare years of civil rights violations by Chicago police, blasting the nation’s second-largest department for using excessive force that included s...
Jan 13, 2017
Ordinary Cubans fret about end to US immigration policy
HAVANA - Ordinary Cubans worried Friday about the economic problems that could be caused for some people by the sudden end to a once-easy pathway to life in the United States, saying many people who a...
Jan 13, 2017
Lord Snowdon, ex-husband of Princess Margaret, dies at 86
LONDON - Lord Snowdon, the society photographer and filmmaker who married Britain’s Princess Margaret and continued to mix in royal circles even after their divorce, has died. He was 86. Bucking...
Jan 13, 2017
