Category Archives: World
UN experts: Rebels, criminals, some army exploit Congo gold
Some army officers, rebel groups and criminal networks in Congo are still illegally exploiting the country’s gold and mineral riches despite government and military bans, U.N. experts said in a ...
Jan 09, 2017
Feds: More than 800 career programs are failing their grads
Hundreds of programs at for-profit colleges are at risk of losing federal funding unless their graduates start earning better wages, federal officials say. On Monday, the Education Department issued i...
Jan 09, 2017
High Court won't hear appeal over Backpage.com escort ads
WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court said Monday it won’t hear an appeal from three sex trafficking victims who accuse advertising website Backpage.com of helping to promote the exploitation of childr...
Jan 09, 2017
Apple proved a phone can change the world in just 10 years
SAN FRANCISCO - Few people realized it at the time, but the world shifted fundamentally a decade ago when Steve Jobs pulled the first iPhone from Apple’s bag of technological tricks. “Ever...
Jan 09, 2017
Clooney hopes Trump presidency won't spawn 'terrible things'
LONDON - George Clooney didn’t vote for Donald Trump and doesn’t think he’s the right choice to run the United States. But he hopes Trump succeeds in office. “We have to hope t...
Jan 09, 2017
US move to secure election systems meets criticism
WASHINGTON - A last-minute decision by the Obama administration to designate election systems as critical infrastructure drew intense criticism from state and federal elections organizations on Monday...
Jan 09, 2017
Judge: San Francisco can't be sued over death by immigrant
San Francisco cannot be held liable for a slaying by a man who was in the country illegally and had been released by sheriff’s officials despite a request by immigration officials to keep him be...
Jan 09, 2017
Dairy Queen closes Illinois store after owner uses slur
ZION, Ill. - Dairy Queen has closed one of its stores in Illinois and terminated its relationship with the franchise owner after police say he used racial slurs in an angry confrontation with a custom...
Jan 09, 2017
Jewish centres in several states targeted with bomb threats
MIAMI - Bomb threats targeted Jewish community centres in at least six states Monday, and some were made with prerecorded telephone calls, according to an official with the Jewish Federations of North...
Jan 09, 2017
Fans mourn death of California's famous 'drive-thru' sequoia
ARNOLD, Calif. - Joyce Brown was 12 when her parents first took her to visit the “drive-thru tree,” a giant sequoia in California famous for a car-sized hole carved into the base of its tr...
Jan 09, 2017