Category Archives: World
Thousands flee as Syrian army pushes into east Aleppo
BEIRUT - Renewed airstrikes killed at least 20 civilians as they fled government advances in Syria’s besieged eastern part of Aleppo Tuesday, opposition groups reported as troops continued to ta...
Nov 29, 2016
Ohio State attack echoes Islamic State group's brutal calls
NEW YORK - In chillingly detailed articles in a slick online magazine, Islamic State extremists exhorted English-language readers this fall to carry out attacks with knives and vehicles. Using those v...
Nov 29, 2016
Ohio State attacker stewed over treatment of fellow Muslims
COLUMBUS, Ohio - A Somali-born student who carried out a car-and-knife attack at Ohio State University stewed over the treatment of Muslims while apparently staying under the radar of federal law enfo...
Nov 29, 2016
Groups document more than 860 hate incidents since elections
WASHINGTON - Civil rights groups called for President-elect Donald Trump to forcefully and publicly denounce racism and bigotry, pointing to more than 860 bias-related incidents recorded in the 10 day...
Nov 29, 2016
Husband of California mom found by freeway details ordeal
SAN FRANCISCO - The husband of a California mother who went missing for three weeks said his wife was covered with bruises and burns and was chained at the waist and wrists when she was found on Thank...
Nov 29, 2016
Escaping wildfires meant fleeing through hell-like landscape
GATLINBURG, Tenn. - With flames dripping from tree branches and the air filled with embers, thousands of people raced through a hellish landscape as they fled wildfires that killed three people and de...
Nov 29, 2016
White House Christmas theme: 'The Gift of the Holidays'
WASHINGTON - For her family’s final Christmas in the White House, Michelle Obama used the holiday decor to highlight her core initiatives as first lady: service, education and health. The famili...
Nov 29, 2016
The Latest: North Dakota will not block supplies into camp
BISMARCK, N.D. - The Latest on the protest against the Dakota Access oil pipeline (all times local): 1:50 p.m. A spokesman for North Dakota Gov. Jack Dalrymple says the governor has no intention of bl...
Nov 29, 2016
Woman accused of stabbing boyfriend who drank her blood
KANSAS CITY, Mo. - A 19-year-old southwest Missouri woman allowed her intoxicated boyfriend to cut her arm and drink her blood while discussing vampires, and then stabbed him during an ensuing argumen...
Nov 29, 2016
Dolly Parton heartbroken by wildfires torching her hometown
ATLANTA - Country music icon Dolly Parton says she’s heartbroken about wildfires that tore through the Tennessee county where she grew up but spared the Dollywood theme park that bears her name....
Nov 29, 2016
