Category Archives: World
France calls up reserves to boost security after Nice attack
NICE, France - Seeking to quell fear and criticism, the French government called up thousands of police reserves Saturday to increase security around the country, after the Islamic State group claimed...
Jul 18, 2016
Trump ready to complete improbable rise at GOP convention
CLEVELAND - A year ago, few imagined Donald Trump as a headline speaker at the Republican National Convention - let alone as its star. Back then, maybe the billionaire New Yorker was alone in thinking...
Jul 18, 2016
Turks rally to defend democracy, govt seeks coup suspects
ISTANBUL - Chanting, dancing and waving flags, tens of thousands of Turks marched through the streets into the wee hours Sunday in half a dozen cities to defend democracy and support the country’...
Jul 18, 2016
Officials: Man shoots at 'Pokemon Go' players outside house
PALM COAST, Fla. - Authorities say a Florida man fired shots at two late-night “Pokemon Go” players in a car outside his house but no one was injured. Flagler County Sheriff’s Office...
Jul 18, 2016
Ex-Oklahoma sheriff pleads no contest to deputy memo charge
TULSA, Okla. - A former Oklahoma sheriff who was friends with a reserve deputy who shot and killed an unarmed man last year pleaded no contest Friday to failing to release key information about how th...
Jul 18, 2016
Ailes seeks to move Carlson case to arbitration
NEW YORK - Fox News chief Roger Ailes is seeking to move former anchor Gretchen Carlson’s harassment case against him from a New Jersey court to a closed arbitration panel in New York. Carlson, ...
Jul 18, 2016
Slain Baton Rouge officer wrote emotional Facebook post
BATON ROUGE, La. - Just days before he was shot and killed, a Baton Rouge police officer posted an emotional Facebook message saying he was “physically and emotionally” tired and expressin...
Jul 18, 2016
AP Newsbreak: Bombing suspect killed himself before blasts
LAS VEGAS - A 59-year-old man who authorities say drove a rented car from Arizona to a rural Nevada town and detonated two bombs at the house of former co-workers shot himself dead before the blasts e...
Jul 18, 2016
Peaceful remembrance for man killed by police in Baton Rouge
BATON ROUGE, La. - Grieving residents of Baton Rouge honoured an appeal at the funeral of a black man killed by police to celebrate his life rather than demonstrate about his death. At a three-hour se...
Jul 18, 2016
Former rivals, military leaders, actors to take stage at RNC
CLEVELAND - Former presidential candidates Ted Cruz, Chris Christie, Scott Walker and Marco Rubio - the latter by video link - are among those set to speak at the Republican National Convention in Cle...
Jul 18, 2016
