Category Archives: World
US factory activity picked up in October
WASHINGTON - Manufacturing expanded in the United States and China last month, good news for a sputtering global economy. The Institute for Supply Management said Tuesday that its manufacturing index ...
Nov 1, 2016
US construction spending slumped in September
WASHINGTON - U.S. builders cut their spending on construction projects in September, the second straight monthly decline. Much of the decrease came as government spending for schools, sewers and trans...
Nov 1, 2016
October US sales fall as auto boom slows
DETROIT - It’s a chilly autumn for U.S. auto sales. Sales of new cars and trucks fell an estimated 4 per cent in October as consumer demand waned, according to Autodata Corp. Hyundai and Subaru ...
Nov 1, 2016
Cosby lawyers press judge to exclude deposition from trial
NORRISTOWN, Pa. - Bill Cosby’s lawyers pressed a judge Tuesday to keep the comedian’s damaging deposition in a decade-old lawsuit out of his sexual assault trial, saying Cosby agreed to an...
Nov 1, 2016
Flush with victory! Outhouse vote favours Hillary Clinton
ASHLAND, N.H. - A week before Election Day, a New Hampshire farm stand owner has decided to tally customers’ votes for president from an outhouse-turned-fake-voting booth. The winner: Hillary Cl...
Nov 1, 2016
Newspaper deal falls apart as Gannett gives up on Tronc
NEW YORK - USA Today publisher Gannett walked away Tuesday from its attempted takeover of Tronc, the owner of the Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune and other major dailies. Gannett’s target was...
Nov 1, 2016
Obama says Clinton to face unfair gender attacks if elected
WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama predicted that some of Hillary Clinton’s opponents will belittle her as overly emotional if she becomes the nation’s first woman president. Obama’...
Nov 1, 2016
Rapper behind song 'Sell Drugz' is accused of selling drugs
LEBANON, Pa. - A rapper whose songs include “Sell Drugz” has been charged with selling drugs in Pennsylvania. Twenty-nine-year-old Michael Persaud performs under the name Montana Millz. Th...
Nov 1, 2016
A look at key players in the Dakota Access pipeline fight
BISMARCK, N.D. - The Dakota Access pipeline, a $3.8 billion, four-state project designed to carry oil from North Dakota to Illinois, has become a rallying point for American Indian tribes and others d...
Nov 1, 2016
9 killed in car bomb blast at checkpoint in northern Nigeria
MAIDUGURI, Nigeria - A car bomb targeting a military checkpoint on a road leading to Nigeria’s northeastern city of Maiduguri exploded Tuesday, killing all nine people in the vehicle, police and...
Nov 1, 2016
