Category Archives: World
German police called over armed passenger's 'intimate shave'
BERLIN - German media say a train conductor called police after spotting a naked man with a knife in one of the train’s restrooms, where officers found something hairy going on. Public broadcast...
Jan 10, 2017
Supreme Court temporarily blocks new NC districts, elections
RALEIGH, N.C. - The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday temporarily blocked a lower court ruling that had directed North Carolina legislators to redraw state legislative districts by March 15 and hold speci...
Jan 10, 2017
World Bank forecasting brighter prospects for 2017
WASHINGTON - The World Bank is forecasting the global economy will accelerate slightly in 2017 after turning in the worst performance last year since the 2008 financial crisis. The 189-nation lending ...
Jan 10, 2017
Volkswagen: Draft deal in scandal contains $4.3B in fines
FRANKFURT - German automaker Volkswagen AG said Tuesday that it was in “advanced talks” with United States authorities over a proposed settlement in its diesel emissions scandal under whic...
Jan 10, 2017
President of Richmond Fed Bank retiring in October
WASHINGTON - Jeffrey Lacker, the president of the Federal Reserve’s Richmond bank, announced Tuesday that he plans to retire on Oct. 1, stepping down after 28 years at the bank. Lacker becomes t...
Jan 10, 2017
Brown, Legislature differ sharply on California budget
SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Gov. Jerry Brown sees a budget deficit and an urgent need for spending cuts. Legislative leaders see a surplus with room to comfortably increase expenditures. Always at odds when ...
Jan 10, 2017
Remains found in search for missing plane confirmed as human
A seat pulled out of Lake Erie from a plane carrying six people when it vanished more than a week ago near Cleveland contained the remains of a male, officials said Tuesday. No other remains have been...
Jan 10, 2017
Book sales suspended for Trump aide accused of plagiarism
NEW YORK - The publisher of Monica Crowley’s “What the (Bleep) Just Happened?” said Tuesday it is halting sales of the book, pending the “opportunity” for the aide to Pre...
Jan 10, 2017
Rusty patched bumblebee now an endangered species
TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. - The rusty patched bumblebee has become the first bee species in the continental U.S. to be declared endangered after suffering a dramatic population decline over the past 20 yea...
Jan 10, 2017
Woman charged with trying to hire hit man won't move trial
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. - Attorneys for a Florida woman accused of trying to hire a hit man to kill her then-husband say they will not ask to move her third trial out of Palm Beach County. Dalia Dippoli...
Jan 10, 2017