Category Archives: World
US Muslims cringe at how presidential nominees portray them
NEW YORK - Many Muslim Americans cringe at the way they have been portrayed by candidates during the presidential campaign - either as potential terrorists or as eyes and ears who can help the governm...
Nov 1, 2016
Pro-Trump super PAC deploying $10 million in new TV ads
WASHINGTON - Donald Trump is getting a $10 million advertising boost from a super PAC attacking Hillary Clinton as too scandal-plagued for the White House. With this late ad buy, Future 45 and a compa...
Nov 1, 2016
Safety violations found after deadly China coal mine blast
BEIJING - Regulators found several safety violations in a coal mine in western China where 33 people died this week after being trapped underground in a gas explosion. China’s State Administrati...
Nov 1, 2016
Stewart, Seinfeld, Springsteen headline benefit
NEW YORK - Somewhat incredulously, Jon Stewart on Tuesday recalled getting into a Twitter war three years ago with the man who could be elected president of the United States next week. The former hos...
Nov 1, 2016
Brownstein and Saunders, mutual admirers, co-host reading
NEW YORK - It’s not hard to understand why author George Saunders and rock star-actress-author Carrie Brownstein admire each other. Co-hosting a reading Tuesday night in Manhattan, they each sho...
Nov 1, 2016
Civil liberties group sues over California ballot selfies
SAN FRANCISCO - California’s ban on sharing photographs of marked ballots violates voters’ First Amendment right to freedom of speech by preventing them from expressing their political vie...
Nov 1, 2016
US says money for Indian land buys will come up short
BILLINGS, Mont. - An ambitious effort to restore tribal control over huge areas of privately owned land on American Indian reservations is projected to run out of money with millions of acres still un...
Nov 1, 2016
102-year-old Arizona woman casts early vote for Clinton
PRESCOTT, Ariz. - A 102-year-old Prescott, Arizona, woman born before women gained the right to vote in America has cast her ballot early and voted for Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinto...
Nov 1, 2016
911 transcripts show confusion, fear during mall stabbings
MINNEAPOLIS - The first person to call 911 as a man stabbed several people at a central Minnesota mall in September urged a dispatcher to send police and an ambulance, saying: “There’s blo...
Nov 1, 2016
North Dakota officials borrow $4M, criticize protest cost
BISMARCK, N.D. - North Dakota leaders have agreed to borrow an additional $4 million to cover the escalating costs of policing protests at the Dakota Access pipeline and slammed the federal government...
Nov 1, 2016
