Category Archives: World
US auto sales hit a record 17.55M in 2016, led by SUVs
DETROIT - U.S. consumers bought a record number of new cars and trucks in 2016. A repeat performance in 2017 could be a tall order. Low gas prices, rising employment and low interest rates kept buyers...
Jan 04, 2017
At Mosul front, Iraqis fleeing and returning cross paths
MOSUL, Iraq - The two teenage sisters hid at home for most of the 2 1/2 years of rule by the Islamic State group. This week, as fighting engulfed their neighbourhood in the northern city of Mosul, Rus...
Jan 04, 2017
Trump, with 2 tweets, helps push GOP reversal on ethics
WASHINGTON - In a city bound by tradition, every president taps a legislative affairs director to work with Congress. President-elect Donald Trump appears ready to use a legislative whip like none oth...
Jan 04, 2017
Obama, Pence harden 'Obamacare' battle lines at Capitol
WASHINGTON - Hardening battle lines for the brawl to come, President Barack Obama urged congressional Democrats to “look out for the American people” in defending his legacy health care ov...
Jan 04, 2017
Turkey says truce violations put Syria talks in jeopardy
BEIRUT - Turkey warned on Wednesday that repeated cease-fire violations by Syrian government forces threaten to derail peace talks scheduled for later this month. Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu sai...
Jan 04, 2017
Scientists: Ash cloud from Alaska volcano has dissipated
ANCHORAGE, Alaska - Scientists say an ash cloud from a remote Alaska volcano that might have gone more than 6 miles into the atmosphere has dissipated after it was tracked north over the Bering Sea. S...
Jan 04, 2017
Indian police detain 6 for New Year's Eve molestations
NEW DELHI - Police in the southern Indian city of Bangalore detained at least six suspects Wednesday after several women said they were groped and molested during New Year’s Eve celebrations in ...
Jan 04, 2017
Kim Kardashian makes long-awaited return to social media
Kim Kardashian has made her long-awaited return to social media, three months after going silent in the wake of being held up and robbed of millions of dollars in jewelry at a Paris hotel. Kardashian ...
Jan 04, 2017
'Mortified' Mariah Carey discusses 'horrible New Year's Eve'
Mariah Carey says she was “mortified” in “real time” during her disastrous live performance just before the ball dropped on ABC’s “Dick Clark’s Rockin’ ...
Jan 04, 2017
Charles Manson's cult left 7 dead and killed a dream, too
LOS ANGELES - The seven grisly murders carried out by Charles Manson’s disciples during the summer of 1969 did more than turn the hippie cult leader into the leering face of evil on front pages ...
Jan 04, 2017
