Category Archives: World
Polish lawmakers overwhelmingly reject total ban on abortion
WARSAW, Poland - Polish lawmakers voted overwhelmingly on Thursday to reject a proposal by an anti-abortion group that would have imposed a total ban on abortion, caving in to massive outrage by women...
Oct 06, 2016
Sheriff: Los Angeles County sergeant shot execution-style
LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles County sheriff’s sergeant was the victim of “a calculated execution” by a parolee with a long history of arrests who pumped bullets into his body as he la...
Oct 06, 2016
Allegations jobs smoothed with cash payments at Trump Tower
NEW YORK - Six years after George Gjieli left federal prison, where he’d been sent for trying to break out a triple murderer, Donald Trump gave him a job running Trump Tower, where the billionai...
Oct 06, 2016
Trump, once a data skeptic, spending millions on data
WASHINGTON - Donald Trump once called data “overrated” in politics. But with Election Day swiftly approaching, the Republican presidential nominee is spending millions of dollars on data a...
Oct 06, 2016
UN Syria envoy warns Aleppo could be 'destroyed' this year
GENEVA - The U.N. envoy for Syria called on al-Qaida-linked militants to leave the embattled city of Aleppo in exchange for an end to government and Russian bombardment, warning Thursday that thousand...
Oct 06, 2016
'A monster': A deadly Hurricane Matthew closes in on Florida
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - Hurricane Matthew pelted Florida with heavy rains as the deadly storm steamed ever closer to the coast with potentially catastrophic winds of 130 mph Thursday. Two million peopl...
Oct 06, 2016
Church restoration a throwback to days of Kennedy wedding
NEWPORT, R.I. - The church where John F. Kennedy and Jacqueline Bouvier got married is being restored to the appearance it had when they wed in 1953. St. Mary’s Church in Newport, Rhode Island, ...
Oct 05, 2016
Research group confirms white shark nursery off Long Island
BOSTON - A privately funded great white shark research group has confirmed the waters off Long Island’s Montauk Point are a “nursery,” a first in the study of great whites in the nor...
Oct 05, 2016
Bumgarner, Gillaspie lead Giants over Mets 3-0; Cubs next
NEW YORK - Nobody takes to October like Madison Bumgarner and the San Francisco Giants. Bumgarner pitched a four-hitter for his latest post-season gem, outlasting Noah Syndergaard in a classic duel be...
Oct 05, 2016
Senators ask DOJ to intervene over voter deadlines
Two Democratic senators on Wednesday asked the U.S. Department of Justice to ensure that 10 states do not violate federal law with their mail-in voter registration deadlines for the November election....
Oct 05, 2016
