Category Archives: World
US says 2,000 IS fighters killed, gravely wounded in Mosul
QAYARA AIR BASE, Iraq - Iraqi and U.S.-led coalition forces have killed or gravely wounded more than 2,000 Islamic State fighters in the battle for Mosul since October, the top U.S. commander in Iraq ...
Dec 10, 2016
Trump team challenges intel on Russian election influence
WASHINGTON - Donald Trump’s presidential transition team on Saturday challenged the veracity of U.S. intelligence assessments that Russia was trying to tip the November election to the Republica...
Dec 10, 2016
Governor Joe Piscopo? Comedian eyes run in New Jersey
NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J. - Joe Piscopo’s Frank Sinatra impression, made famous from his days on “Saturday Night Live,” has gotten an update. It’s no longer “New York, New York...
Dec 10, 2016
NYPD seeks cure for gun violence with data-driven cases
NEW YORK - Even as homicide rates have climbed in other American cities, New York City is again on pace to have a near-record low number of shootings, and police are partly crediting refined tactics t...
Dec 10, 2016
Chapel of Love lost to fire that ravaged city in Smokies
GATLINBURG, Tenn. - The wildfires that killed 14 people and tore through Gatlinburg also stole an iconic venue from this city at the foot of the Great Smoky Mountains whose nickname is “the wedd...
Dec 10, 2016
Italian president: We need a new government urgently
ROME - Italy’s president promised Saturday he’ll decide “in the next hours” about who to tap as the next premier, saying the country needs a new government as soon as possible ...
Dec 10, 2016
KKK, other racist groups disavow the white supremacist label
PELHAM, N.C. - In today’s racially charged environment, there’s a label that even the KKK disavows: white supremacy. Standing on a muddy dirt road in the dead of night near the North Carol...
Dec 10, 2016
Advocates call Alabama execution an 'avoidable disaster'
ATMORE, Ala. - Defenders of a condemned inmate in Alabama are calling his execution an “avoidable disaster,” but the state prison commissioner says there was no visible evidence that he su...
Dec 10, 2016
Northeast Ohio gas pipeline opponents vow to delay project
CLEVELAND - Northeast Ohio residents who have tried to get a natural gas pipeline moved away from their communities are vowing to engage in delay tactics after a federal agency dismissed their suggest...
Dec 10, 2016
Death toll in Yemen suicide bombing rises to 45
SANAA, Yemen - A suicide bomber on Saturday blew himself up inside an army base in the southern city of Aden, killing 45 soldiers and wounding another 50, security officials said. They said the bomber...
Dec 10, 2016