Category Archives: World
Wife of man tied to terror attack admits marriage sham
LOS ANGELES - The wife of a man accused of aiding the shooters in the San Bernardino terror attack pleaded guilty Thursday in an immigration fraud case and admitted that her marriage was a sham, feder...
Jan 26, 2017
Mayor: Miami-Dade jail to heed immigration detainer requests
Miami-Dade County’s mayor instructed jail officials in that South Florida community on Thursday to honour all immigration detainer requests, a day after President Donald Trump signed an executiv...
Jan 26, 2017
Trump admin pursues rethinking of national security policy
WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump’s embrace of Guantanamo Bay as a jail for terror suspects represents a repudiation of the Obama administration’s longtime push to prosecute captured mil...
Jan 26, 2017
UN aid chief accuses Syria of blocking help to neediest
The U.N. humanitarian chief accused the Syrian government on Thursday of blocking aid to hundreds of thousands of the country’s neediest people despite a nationwide cease-fire that has given ...
Jan 26, 2017
Proposal would establish California as separate nation
LOS ANGELES - Another attempt is underway to establish California as a separate nation. Election officials announced Thursday that a proposal has been submitted to the Secretary of State’s Offic...
Jan 26, 2017
Report: Trump called park official to dispute crowd photos
WASHINGTON - On his first full day in office, President Donald Trump called the acting director of the National Park Service to dispute widely circulated photos of Trump’s inauguration. Trump pe...
Jan 26, 2017
Judge restricts Robin Thicke's contact with his son, ex-wife
LOS ANGELES - A judge on Thursday ordered Robin Thicke to have only monitored visits with his 6-year-old son and stay away from his ex-wife, actress Paula Patton, after she accused the singer of emoti...
Jan 26, 2017
'Mannix' star Mike Connors dies at 91
LOS ANGELES - Mike Connors, who played a hard-hitting private eye on the long-running TV series “Mannix,” has died. He was 91. His son-in-law, Mike Condon, says the actor died Thursday aft...
Jan 26, 2017
Vice-President Pence to speak at anti-abortion rally in DC
WASHINGTON - Vice-President Mike Pence has agreed to speak at Friday’s March for Life, the anti-abortion demonstration held each year in Washington, organizers announced. In a statement late Thu...
Jan 26, 2017
Hundreds honour 3 astronauts lost in Apollo fire 50 years ago
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - Moonwalkers and dozens of others who took part in NASA’s storied Apollo program paid tribute Thursday to the three astronauts killed in a fire 50 years ago. On the eve of ...
Jan 26, 2017