Category Archives: World
Pro-Trump super PACs leave Cleveland with fatter wallets
CLEVELAND - After a slow start, big money is flowing toward efforts to help Donald Trump. Super PAC side meetings during the Republican National Convention have yielded millions of dollars in financia...
Jul 22, 2016
Why the Pokemon-McDonald's deal in Japan could be big
TOKYO - The Japan launch of “Pokemon Go” on Friday included the game’s first partnership with an outside company: fast-food giant McDonald’s. About 400 McDonald’s Japan o...
Jul 21, 2016
Strong smell of cooked urine prompts apartment evacuation
AMHERST, Mass. - The strong smell caused by a man cooking urine has prompted the evacuation of an apartment building in Massachusetts. Police responded to the Amherst apartment complex Wednesday after...
Jul 21, 2016
IMF head calls for quick end to Brexit uncertainty
BEIJING - The head of the International Monetary Fund called Friday for quick action to end uncertainty over Britain’s vote to leave the European Union, which she said is dampening global econom...
Jul 21, 2016
Records: Minnesota officer had 2011 interaction with Castile
MINNEAPOLIS - A Minnesota police officer and the black motorist he shot to death during a traffic stop had interacted in a previous stop more than four years earlier, newly released records show. Phil...
Jul 21, 2016
Authorities: Inmate wrote letter before fatal escape attempt
DETROIT - An inmate who killed two bailiffs during an escape attempt from a southwestern Michigan courthouse had written in a letter to his ex-wife that he was going on the run or would die trying bec...
Jul 21, 2016
Judge inclined to deny Trump's request to dismiss lawsuit
SAN DIEGO - A federal judge said Friday that he is inclined to deny a request by Donald Trump’s lawyers to dismiss a lawsuit that accuses the Republican presidential nominee of defrauding custom...
Jul 21, 2016
Safe GOP convention boosts Cleveland's image to the world
Cleveland’s safe and successful turn as host of the Republican National Convention has helped establish it as an ideal location for large events but also a city that people will consider when de...
Jul 21, 2016
Ohio county official apologizes for Hillary Clinton remark
NEWARK, Ohio - A county official in Ohio is apologizing after a newspaper quoted him as saying that Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton “should be hanging from a tree.” Licki...
Jul 21, 2016
US woman given body cavity searches at border settles case
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - U.S. Customs and Border Protection agreed to pay $475,000 to a New Mexico woman who accused agents of forcing her to undergo body cavity probes and then got charged for the exams, ...
Jul 21, 2016
