Category Archives: World
Mississippi sues Google, saying it violates student privacy
JACKSON, Miss. - Mississippi’s Democratic attorney general is once again tangling with Google, alleging in a lawsuit that the company is illegally violating student privacy, even as some Republi...
Jan 17, 2017
Advocates: Asylum-seekers are being turned away at border
SAN DIEGO - Immigrant advocacy groups said Tuesday that U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers are allegedly turning away asylum-seekers before their claims can be heard, violating obligations un...
Jan 17, 2017
Search of lake for human remains from plane crash ends
CLEVELAND - The search for human remains from a plane that crashed into Lake Erie last month has ended, and DNA testing has identified three of the six people killed, an airport official said on Tuesd...
Jan 17, 2017
18 million more uninsured if Obamacare killed, not replaced
WASHINGTON - Insurance premiums would soar for millions of Americans and 18 million more would be uninsured in just one year if Republicans scuttle much of President Barack Obama’s health care o...
Jan 17, 2017
Lin-Manuel Miranda to play 'Hamilton' for Oscar Lopez Rivera
CHICAGO - “Hamilton” creator Lin-Manuel Miranda says he will play Alexander Hamilton at a Chicago performance in honour of the commutation of Oscar Lopez Rivera’s sentence by Preside...
Jan 17, 2017
WikiLeaks hails Manning clemency, makes no mention of pledge
LONDON - WikiLeaks said President Barack Obama may have saved Chelsea Manning’s life by granting clemency to the former Army intelligence analyst Tuesday. But the secret-spilling site said littl...
Jan 17, 2017
Brother of Islamic State fighter testifies at terror trial
NEW YORK - The brother of a New Yorker who joined the Islamic State group and died testified Tuesday at the terrorism trial of an Arizona man, saying he lied to his parents and the FBI in the days aft...
Jan 17, 2017
Caroline Kennedy boosted US-Japan ties as US ambassador
TOKYO - Caroline Kennedy stepped down Wednesday after three years as U.S. ambassador to Japan, where she was welcomed like a celebrity and worked to deepen the U.S.-Japan relationship despite regular ...
Jan 17, 2017
Italy convicts 8 South Americans in deaths from 1970s-80s
ROME - A Rome court on Tuesday convicted eight former South American political and military leaders in the disappearance and deaths of 23 people of Italian origin during the crackdown on leftists and ...
Jan 17, 2017
Puerto Ricans cheer commutation for nationalist Oscar Lopez
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico - Car horns rang out across Puerto Rico and people celebrated in the streets Tuesday after President Barack Obama announced he had commuted the prison sentence of 74-year-old nat...
Jan 17, 2017