Category Archives: World
Haley on UN job: South Carolina crises, lessons in diplomacy
COLUMBIA, S.C. - South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley says dealing with lawmakers and serving as the state’s healer-in-chief through deadly natural disasters, a shooting massacre and other crises hav...
Jan 11, 2017
Inmates' uncertainty on Guantanamo prison's 15th anniversary
MIAMI - The looming presidency of Donald Trump has created a deep sense of uncertainty for inmates at Guantanamo on the 15th anniversary of the arrival of the first prisoners at the U.S. base in Cuba....
Jan 11, 2017
AP News Guide: Trump's business ties around the world
NEW YORK - Donald Trump says his business is “great,” and you’ll have to trust him on that. One of the few things an outsider can know for sure is that it’s a complex and opaqu...
Jan 11, 2017
North Korea is a bad trip if you're looking to get high
PYONGYANG, Korea, Democratic People’s Republic Of - North Korea has been getting some pretty high praise lately from the stoner world. Marijuana news outlets including High Times, Merry Jane and...
Jan 11, 2017
Fierce battles leave hospital in Iraqi city of Mosul gutted
MOSUL, Iraq - After weeks of airstrikes and artillery fire, Mosul’s al-Salam hospital is little more than a burnt-out shell. Retaken from the Islamic State group by Iraqi forces this month, the ...
Jan 11, 2017
Prosecutors: UK children's author 'drugged by partner'
LONDON - British children’s author Helen Bailey was plied with sedatives and likely suffocated by her fiance in a financially motivated killing, prosecutors said Wednesday. The body of 51-year-o...
Jan 11, 2017
Compromising material appears frequently in Russian politics
MOSCOW - Blurry video of highly placed men engaging in sexual acts, audio recordings of influential figures profanely insulting their nominal allies - in Russia these appear enough that a special word...
Jan 11, 2017
Civil rights advocates avoid calling Sessions 'racist'
WASHINGTON - Opponents to GOP Sen. Jeff Sessions’ selection as attorney general are calling him extremist, anti-immigration and insensitive to civil rights. But they’re refusing to call hi...
Jan 11, 2017
Combative Trump concedes Russia's role in election hacking
NEW YORK - In a combative and freewheeling news conference, President-elect Donald Trump said for the first time Wednesday that he accepts Russia was behind the election year hacking of Democrats that...
Jan 11, 2017
Trump says for first time: I think Russia hacked Dems
WASHINGTON - President-elect Donald Trump speculated Wednesday that U.S. intelligence agencies might have leaked details about a classified briefing with him that included unsubstantiated allegations ...
Jan 11, 2017