Category Archives: World
Pew: Majority of US says fake news is creating confusion
NEW YORK - A new survey from the Pew Research Center has found that two-thirds of U.S. adults say fake news stories are causing “a great deal of confusion” about the basic facts of current...
Dec 15, 2016
Mississippi court OKs challenge to questioned execution drug
JACKSON, Miss. - A Mississippi man sentenced to death for the murder of a community college student won consent from the state’s highest court Thursday to challenge a lethal injection drug that&...
Dec 15, 2016
Banks lead US stock indexes higher, and dollar jumps again
NEW YORK - A surge in banks and other financial stocks that stand to benefit from higher interest rates lifted U.S. indexes Thursday. The dollar climbed to its strongest level in more than a decade ag...
Dec 15, 2016
Delaware court says death penalty ruling is retroactive
DOVER, Del. - A Delaware Supreme Court ruling earlier this year declaring the state’s death penalty law unconstitutional is retroactive, meaning an inmate convicted of killing a police officer m...
Dec 15, 2016
Don't look to the Electoral College to upend Trump victory
WASHINGTON - There’s more hustle than hope behind an effort to derail Donald Trump’s presidency in the Electoral College. Republican electors are being swamped with pleas to buck tradition...
Dec 15, 2016
Facebook finally gets serious about fighting fake news
NEW YORK - Facebook is taking new measures to curb the spread of fake news on its huge and influential social network, focusing on the “worst of the worst” offenders and partnering with ou...
Dec 15, 2016
Carter confident US will remain key to anti-IS coalition
LONDON - U.S. Defence Secretary Ash Carter and his British counterpart expressed confidence Thursday that the Trump administration will continue America’s role as leader of the international mil...
Dec 15, 2016
France lashes Russia over Syria; Aleppo seeks EU help
BRUSSELS - French President Francois Hollande accused Russia on Thursday of reneging on its pledges in Syria, as a local leader in the besieged Syrian city of Aleppo appealed to Europe to send monitor...
Dec 15, 2016
Toddler killed in USVI drive-by shooting; suspects at large
CHARLOTTE AMALIE, Virgin Islands - Authorities say an 18-month-old girl has been shot and killed while riding in a car in the U.S. Virgin Islands. Gov. Kenneth Mapp said Thursday that police have offe...
Dec 15, 2016
AP FACT CHECK: Trump gets timing wrong on Russia hacking
WASHINGTON - President-elect Donald Trump tweeted Thursday that the Obama administration didn’t bring up Russian hacking of U.S. political sites until after Hillary Clinton lost the election. Th...
Dec 15, 2016