Category Archives: World
website for Brazil's President Temer hacked
SAO PAULO - A website for the Brazilian president has been hacked, plastered with messages calling for the death penalty for legislators in a country where many are frustrated with public corruption. ...
Dec 31, 2016
Cuban conservatory students in New Orleans for jazz concert
NEW ORLEANS - Students from Cuba’s top music academy will present a free concert of big band jazz with a Cuban accent in New Orleans on Jan. 5. The non-profit group Horns to Havana says the 14-m...
Dec 31, 2016
Rome theatre fires orchestral director for denying Santa
MILAN - Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus. Or else. An orchestral director lost his job at the Auditorium Parco della Musica in Rome after telling an audience filled with children that the man in ...
Dec 31, 2016
Geraldine Ferraro's son pardoned for 1988 cocaine conviction
MONTPELIER, Vt. - The son of former vice-presidential nominee Geraldine Ferraro has been pardoned by the governor of Vermont nearly 30 years after he was convicted of selling cocaine to an undercover ...
Dec 31, 2016
Planned Parenthood asks judge to halt Texas Medicaid cuts
AUSTIN, Texas - Planned Parenthood has asked a federal judge to stop Texas from cutting it from the state’s Medicaid program, which the nation’s largest abortion provider says would reduce...
Dec 31, 2016
Worries grow as homicides spike in Virginia's capital city
RICHMOND, Va. - George Carrington III was excited to become a father. He loved cars and couldn’t wait to buy his son a Big Wheel tricycle, his mother said. But they never met - the 17-year-old w...
Dec 31, 2016
WSJ: Reporter detained in Turkey for nearly 3 days released
NEW YORK - The Wall Street Journal says one of its reporters was detained in Turkey for nearly three days before authorities allowed him to leave the country. Editor Gerard Baker says in a statement S...
Dec 31, 2016
Texas judge takes specialized court for veterans on the road
ANNA, Texas - In the Army, Richard Ress survived duty in some of the most dangerous parts of Afghanistan, but on a July day in 2009, he seemed ready for his life to end in the back of a Texas police c...
Dec 31, 2016
Trump says he doesn't trust computers as he rings in 2017
PALM BEACH, Fla. - President-elect Donald Trump says that “no computer is safe” when it comes to keeping information private, expressing new skepticism about the security of online communi...
Dec 31, 2016
Michael Brown's family fights Ferguson push for his records
KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Michael Brown’s parents are objecting to a request from Ferguson for their son’s medical and academic records as the city defends itself against a lawsuit the parents fi...
Dec 31, 2016