Category Archives: World
Police: Woman drives truck through Missouri clinic's doors
SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - Police in southwest Missouri say a woman outraged at a doctor was arrested after driving her pickup truck through a health centre’s glass doors. Police say no injuries resulte...
Dec 12, 2016
MH370 search ship leaves Australia for perhaps final time
PERTH, Australia - A lone survey vessel has left an Australian port for perhaps the final time to search for the Malaysian airliner that mysteriously crashed into the southern Indian Ocean two years a...
Dec 12, 2016
AP Interview: Gorbachev says US was short-sighted on Soviets
MOSCOW - As the Soviet Union was breaking up 25 years ago, Mikhail Gorbachev expected the United States and its Western allies to provide vital aid. The former Soviet president thinks their failure to...
Dec 12, 2016
Auction houses face off in website data scraping lawsuit
NEW YORK - Christie’s auction house has been accused in a lawsuit of using a computer program to scrape research, images and price information from a rival’s website and then reselling tha...
Dec 12, 2016
On the ground! Police help man stage proposal to girlfriend
MOBILE, Ala. - Police in one Alabama city said they helped stage a man’s arrest so that he could really just kneel down and propose to his terrified girlfriend. With the help of two officers, Da...
Dec 12, 2016
Trump's criticism of Russia hacking claim could haunt him
WASHINGTON - Donald Trump is holding firm to his skepticism of the huge intelligence apparatus he’s about to inherit, doubting the CIA conclusion that Russia tried to hack its way into tipping t...
Dec 12, 2016
Scientists say reindeer may be shrinking due to warming
STOCKHOLM - Reindeer living on the Arctic island of Svalbard are getting smaller - and scientists say climate change may be the cause. Scientists from Britain and Norway have found that adult Svalbard...
Dec 12, 2016
Donald Trump's avoidance of formal news conference continues
NEW YORK - President-elect Donald Trump on Monday cancelled the only news conference he has scheduled since his election, continuing to communicate with the public via Twitter and carefully curated, o...
Dec 12, 2016
Oklahoma may require restroom signs in anti-abortion effort
OKLAHOMA CITY - Oklahoma plans to force hospitals, nursing homes, restaurants and public schools to post signs inside public restrooms directing pregnant women where to receive services as part of an ...
Dec 12, 2016
The Latest: Trump says he'll leave businesses before Jan. 20
WASHINGTON - The Latest on President-elect Donald Trump (all times EST): 11:45 p.m. Donald Trump says he is leaving his businesses before Jan. 20 so he can “focus full time” on being presi...
Dec 12, 2016