Category Archives: World
Berlin hotel denies anti-Israel claim by 'Shoah' director
BERLIN - A five-star hotel in Berlin is dismissing claims of anti-Israel bias by French Jewish filmmaker Claude Lanzmann. The director of the Holocaust documentary “Shoah” was quoted in a ...
Aug 11, 2016
IMF, Egypt agree on $12B loan to fix ailing economy
CAIRO - The International Monetary Fund said Thursday it will grant Egypt a $12 billion loan over three years to help the Arab world’s most populous country mend its ailing economy following yea...
Aug 11, 2016
Ride operator had other incident before Ferris wheel spill
NASHVILLE - The organizers of the eastern Tennessee fair where three girls fell from a Ferris wheel kept their ride operator despite an incident across the state line that injured five and caused the ...
Aug 11, 2016
Colorado Planned Parenthood gunman still incompetent
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. - A judge says a man who acknowledges killing three people at a Colorado Planned Parenthood clinic remains mentally incompetent to continue with his case. Judge Gilbert Martine...
Aug 11, 2016
Victim tells 'Grim Sleeper': 'You are truly a piece of evil'
LOS ANGELES - On the day Enietra Washington was shot and left for dead three decades ago, she looked her assailant in the eye and told him she would haunt him if she died. Washington survived, but she...
Aug 11, 2016
2 previous force complaints against academy shooting officer
MIRAMAR, Fla. - The officer who shot and killed a 73-year-old retired librarian during a citizen academy “shoot/don’t shoot” class resigned from his previous department shortly after...
Aug 11, 2016
Mississippi woman gets 12-year sentence on terrorism charge
OXFORD, Miss. - A Mississippi woman who tried to join the Islamic State group sought to apologize at sentencing Thursday, tearful as a federal judge ordered her to spend 12 years in prison on a terror...
Aug 11, 2016
Amateurs analyze Trump's mind, but should the pros do it?
WASHINGTON - Amateur psychoanalysts have put Donald Trump on the couch, calling him a sociopath, unhinged, a narcissist. Amid all this psych-talk, there is one group of people who aren’t talking...
Aug 11, 2016
WHY IT MATTERS: Health Care
WASHINGTON - THE ISSUE: About 9 in 10 Americans now have health insurance, more than at any time in history. But progress is incomplete, and the future far from certain. Millions remain uninsured. Qua...
Aug 11, 2016
Turkish jets attack PKK in northern Iraq after attacks
ANKARA, Turkey - Turkish jets raided suspected Kurdish rebel targets across the border in northern Iraq, Turkey’s state-run news agency reported Thursday, following a wave of attacks that killed...
Aug 11, 2016
