Category Archives: World
Trump asks skeptic to probe vaccine safety, alarming doctors
WASHINGTON - President-elect Donald Trump is reviving long debunked attempts to link vaccines to autism, meeting with a vocal skeptic to discuss chairing a commission on vaccination safety - a move th...
Jan 10, 2017
Florida researchers find 2 new invasive mosquitoes in state
MIAMI - Two more tropical disease-carrying mosquitoes have been found on the U.S. mainland for the first time, caught in traps near Florida’s Everglades. The scientists involved say this could r...
Jan 10, 2017
Brother of San Bernardino shooter guilty in immigration case
LOS ANGELES - The brother of one of the shooters in the San Bernardino terror attack pleaded guilty Tuesday in an immigration fraud case stemming from the probe into the killings. Syed Raheel Farook e...
Jan 10, 2017
The Latest: Victim's brother says death appropriate for Roof
CHARLESTON, S.C. - The Latest on the federal sentencing trial of convicted Charleston church shooter Dylann Roof (all times local): 5:45 p.m. The brother of a woman slain by Dylann Roof at Emanuel AME...
Jan 10, 2017
German police called over armed passenger's 'intimate shave'
BERLIN - German media say a train conductor called police after spotting a naked man with a knife in one of the train’s restrooms, where officers found something hairy going on. Public broadcast...
Jan 10, 2017
Supreme Court temporarily blocks new NC districts, elections
RALEIGH, N.C. - The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday temporarily blocked a lower court ruling that had directed North Carolina legislators to redraw state legislative districts by March 15 and hold speci...
Jan 10, 2017
World Bank forecasting brighter prospects for 2017
WASHINGTON - The World Bank is forecasting the global economy will accelerate slightly in 2017 after turning in the worst performance last year since the 2008 financial crisis. The 189-nation lending ...
Jan 10, 2017
Volkswagen: Draft deal in scandal contains $4.3B in fines
FRANKFURT - German automaker Volkswagen AG said Tuesday that it was in “advanced talks” with United States authorities over a proposed settlement in its diesel emissions scandal under whic...
Jan 10, 2017
President of Richmond Fed Bank retiring in October
WASHINGTON - Jeffrey Lacker, the president of the Federal Reserve’s Richmond bank, announced Tuesday that he plans to retire on Oct. 1, stepping down after 28 years at the bank. Lacker becomes t...
Jan 10, 2017
Brown, Legislature differ sharply on California budget
SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Gov. Jerry Brown sees a budget deficit and an urgent need for spending cuts. Legislative leaders see a surplus with room to comfortably increase expenditures. Always at odds when ...
Jan 10, 2017
