Category Archives: World
Prosecutor: Man helped college student join Islamic State
NEW YORK - An Arizona man charged with conspiring to help a terrorism group provided a “launching pad” for a New York college student to join the Islamic State group in Syria, a prosecutor...
Jan 10, 2017
Chicago police officer's lawyer wants murder charge dropped
CHICAGO - A lawyer for a Chicago police officer charged in Laquan McDonald’s shooting death is asking that the first-degree murder charge be dismissed. Attorney Daniel Herbert filed a motion Tue...
Jan 10, 2017
Official: Rioting prisoners were 'getting ready for war'
BOSTON - Rioting inmates armed themselves and “were getting ready for war” during a disturbance at a maximum security prison in Massachusetts, the state’s top public safety official ...
Jan 10, 2017
Los Angeles beats San Francisco for George Lucas museum site
LOS ANGELES - The force, it seems, was with Los Angeles. And San Francisco was left on the dark side. “Star Wars” creator George Lucas and his team were on the side of the City of Angels o...
Jan 10, 2017
Inauguration planner says event features 1 celebrity: Trump
NEW YORK - President-elect Donald Trump will take the traditional ride from the White House to the Capitol with his predecessor before his inauguration next week, but he will break from some of the da...
Jan 10, 2017
Writer: Gay rights TV miniseries is for all, including Trump
PASADENA, Calif. - Writer Dustin Lance Black says his upcoming TV miniseries about the gay rights movement is for everyone, up to and including the incoming president. Black told a TV critics’ m...
Jan 10, 2017
Roof's victims were united by tragedy - and faith
CHARLESTON, S.C. - They were mothers, fathers, friends and co-workers. They shared varied interests and circumstances, but each of them was a person of faith. The nine slain by Dylann Roof during a We...
Jan 10, 2017
Trump asks skeptic to probe vaccine safety, alarming doctors
WASHINGTON - President-elect Donald Trump is reviving long debunked attempts to link vaccines to autism, meeting with a vocal skeptic to discuss chairing a commission on vaccination safety - a move th...
Jan 10, 2017
Florida researchers find 2 new invasive mosquitoes in state
MIAMI - Two more tropical disease-carrying mosquitoes have been found on the U.S. mainland for the first time, caught in traps near Florida’s Everglades. The scientists involved say this could r...
Jan 10, 2017
Brother of San Bernardino shooter guilty in immigration case
LOS ANGELES - The brother of one of the shooters in the San Bernardino terror attack pleaded guilty Tuesday in an immigration fraud case stemming from the probe into the killings. Syed Raheel Farook e...
Jan 10, 2017