Category Archives: World
Animal treatment questions cancel 'A Dog's Purpose' premiere
LOS ANGELES - This weekend’s premiere of “A Dog’s Purpose” has been cancelled following the release of a video that appears to show a frightened dog being forced into churning ...
Jan 20, 2017
Dow industrials edge higher after 5 straight losses
Stocks edged higher in afternoon trading Friday, on course to recoup most of the market’s losses from the day before. The rebound came about as investors weighed Donald Trump’s swearing in...
Jan 20, 2017
Fires, bricks mark daylong assault on inaugural festivities
WASHINGTON - Protesters set fires and hurled bricks in a daylong assault on the city hosting Donald Trump’s inauguration, registering their rage against the new president in a series of clashes ...
Jan 20, 2017
'I've seen rain:' James Taylor bemoans end of Obama era
BOSTON - Half a world away from Washington, James Taylor is greeting fans with a video bemoaning the end of the Obama era. The singer emailed a clip from French Polynesia on the eve of Donald Trump...
Jan 20, 2017
Former president's breathing tube indicates severe pneumonia
Former President George H.W. Bush is being treated for pneumonia in intensive care at a Houston hospital where doctors are evaluating him before removing a breathing tube. His underlying health proble...
Jan 20, 2017
Rotting radishes stinking up Pennsylvania town
JERSEY SHORE, Pa. - A television station has found the reason one central Pennsylvania town stinks: a field of decaying radishes. WNEP-TV (http://bit.ly/2jGF7LV ) began investigating after residents o...
Jan 20, 2017
Spain: 2,000 trapped overnight as snow cuts off highways
MADRID - Authorities say some 2,000 people were trapped overnight in vehicles as heavy snowfall cut off several roads in eastern Spain. The army’s emergency unit said Friday it was distributing ...
Jan 20, 2017
Boko Haram attacks camp bombed by Nigeria's air force
MAIDUGURI, Nigeria - Boko Haram extremists attacked a refugee camp in northeast Nigeria just days after Nigeria’s air force bombed it, witnesses said Friday, as reports emerged that the death to...
Jan 20, 2017
Royal Navy removes WWII bomb from River Thames in London
LONDON - Britain’s Royal Navy on Friday removed and detonated a still-dangerous World War II bomb whose discovery in the River Thames shut down a chunk of central London. The Metropolitan Police...
Jan 20, 2017
What's on the Trump menu? Lobster, steak and chocolate
NEW YORK - Donald Trump’s first meal as president of the United States isn’t too far from the typical power lunch for a billionaire businessman - lobster, beef and a rich chocolate dessert...
Jan 20, 2017