Category Archives: World
Fox anchor, Hasbro end suit over toy hamster with same names
PROVIDENCE, R.I. - A Fox News anchor has settled a $5 million lawsuit against Hasbro for a toy hamster that had her name and she claims was designed to look like her. Harris Faulkner sued Pawtucket, R...
Oct 5, 2016
Caitlyn Jenner first Kardashian clan member to speak
NEW YORK - As Kim Kardashian West remains in seclusion and off social media after her Paris ordeal, Caitlyn Jenner became the first family member to post about the armed robbery, sending well wishes t...
Oct 5, 2016
Vice presidential debate seen by 35.6 million viewers
NEW YORK - More than half of the 84 million viewers who flocked last week to the first presidential debate between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton found something else to do when their respective run...
Oct 5, 2016
California water board fears water-saving has been abandoned
FRESNO, Calif. - Californians conserved about a third less water in August than a year earlier, state regulators announced Wednesday, evidence that the decision to ease up on conservation mandates cau...
Oct 5, 2016
Paris climate agreement to take effect Nov. 4
The landmark Paris agreement on climate change will enter into force on Nov. 4, after a coalition of the world’s largest polluters and small island nations threatened by rising seas pushed it pa...
Oct 5, 2016
NSA contractor arrest highlights challenge of insider threat
WASHINGTON - The arrest of a former National Security Agency contractor for allegedly stealing classified information represents the second known case since 2013 of a government contractor being publi...
Oct 5, 2016
Lawyer to file complaint in German probe over Erdogan poem
BERLIN - A lawyer for Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Wednesday he will challenge a decision by German prosecutors to drop an investigation of a TV comic who wrote a crude poem about the p...
Oct 5, 2016
UN Security Council formally nominates Guterres
Portugal’s former prime minister Antonio Guterres, who was formally nominated on Thursday to be the next U.N. secretary-general, said he faces “huge challenges” and hopes to see unit...
Oct 5, 2016
Police: Doughnut heist leads to capture of wanted man
HOBBS, N.M. - Authorities say a fugitive’s sweet tooth helped police capture a wanted New Mexico man after he tried to take a doughnut without paying for it. The Hobbs News-Sun reports (https://...
Oct 5, 2016
US services companies report fastest growth in nearly year
WASHINGTON - U.S. services companies grew last month at the fastest pace in nearly a year, potential good news for the U.S. economy. The Institute for Supply Management said Wednesday that its service...
Oct 5, 2016
