Category Archives: World
Clinton after 'Hamilton': 'Let's not throw away our shot'
NEW YORK - Hillary Clinton said Tuesday the hit Broadway musical “Hamilton” offers lessons for the nation, telling donors following a special fundraising performance, “Let’s no...
Jul 12, 2016
AMC Theatres buying Europe's Odeon & UCI in $663M deal
LOS ANGELES - The owner of the AMC Theatre chain is buying European movie theatre operator Odeon & UCI Cinemas Group from private equity firm Terra Firma in a deal that would make it the largest m...
Jul 12, 2016
Police identify man charged with shooting at DC officers
WASHINGTON - Police in Washington have identified a man accused of firing at several officers after a robbery and a carjacking early Tuesday. A police news release Tuesday afternoon said 22-year-old L...
Jul 12, 2016
Dutch woman escapes IS-held, northern Iraqi city of Mosul
BAGHDAD - A Dutch woman has surrendered to Kurdish Peshmerga fighters near the Islamic State-held city of Mosul in northern Iraq, saying she had been trying to escape the “hell” she was li...
Jul 12, 2016
Feds examine how Tesla Autopilot reacts to crossing traffic
DETROIT - Federal investigators looking into electric car maker Tesla Motors’ Autopilot system after a fatal crash in Florida are zeroing in on the limitations of the system and how it reacts wh...
Jul 12, 2016
Castile's family vows lawsuit over Minnesota police shooting
ST. PAUL, Minn. - The family of a black Minnesota man fatally shot by a police officer during a traffic stop is planning to sue over his killing. TV judge Glenda Hatchett is the attorney representing ...
Jul 12, 2016
US to base hundreds of troops outside Afghanistan
BAGRAM AIR FIELD, Afghanistan - The top U.S. commander in Afghanistan said Tuesday that “some hundreds” of U.S. forces - in addition to the 8,400 that President Barack Obama announced woul...
Jul 12, 2016
UN: Syria fighting cuts off passage to rebel part of Aleppo
GENEVA - Intensified fighting between Syrian government forces and rebels north of Aleppo has completely cut off access for humanitarian aid deliveries into the rebel-held part of the contested city, ...
Jul 12, 2016
Britain's prime minister chairs his final Cabinet meeting
LONDON - The brutal swiftness of British politics was on display Tuesday as moving vans pulled up to take David Cameron’s possessions away from 10 Downing Street and his successor posed for phot...
Jul 12, 2016
Trump's denial of climate science at odds with world leaders
WASHINGTON - If elected president, Donald Trump would be the only head of state in the world to contend that climate change is a hoax, according to a study. The Sierra Club compiled public statements ...
Jul 12, 2016
