Category Archives: World
US stock indexes bust records as oil prices jump
NEW YORK - A jump in oil prices helped pull U.S. stocks to record highs Monday as investors continue to hope for a cut in oil production that could help prices go higher. The start of the week once ag...
Nov 21, 2016
Line between transition, company blurred by Trump children
NEW YORK - Nearly every morning since their father’s stunning victory on Election Day, three of Donald Trump’s grown children walk through the Trump Tower lobby and board an elevator. But ...
Nov 21, 2016
'Hamilton' actor: 'There's nothing to apologize for'
NEW YORK - If Donald Trump is waiting for an apology from the cast of “Hamilton,” he will have to continue to wait. Actor Brandon Victor Dixon, who plays Aaron Burr in the celebrated music...
Nov 21, 2016
Texas, Missouri, Florida officers shot in attacks; 1 killed
A manhunt for a suspect in the fatal shooting of a veteran Texas police detective ended Monday with an arrest in the killing that was one of several weekend attacks against law enforcement in multiple...
Nov 21, 2016
Syrian government refuses UN truce terms for Aleppo
BEIRUT - The Syrian government refused the U.N. envoy’s latest proposal for a truce in Aleppo on Sunday, calling on insurgents to withdraw and saying it would not grant autonomy to the rebel-hel...
Nov 21, 2016
Search for bodies at Indian train crash site ends; 146 dead
PUKHRAYAN, India - The death toll from India’s worst train accident in years rose to 146 on Monday after rescuers used cranes to lift the last of the twisted metal wreckage to check for bodies u...
Nov 21, 2016
Woman dragged behind car on cord in Germany badly injured
BERLIN - A woman was seriously injured when she was dragged through the streets of a northern German town behind a car with a cord tied around her neck. Her ex-partner later turned himself in to autho...
Nov 21, 2016
Turkey detains another 2 pro-Kurdish mayors
ISTANBUL - Turkey’s state-run news agency says authorities have detained another two mayors belonging to the pro-Kurdish party on terrorism-related charges. Anadolu Agency says Ahmet Turk, the m...
Nov 21, 2016
No bullet holes found in crashed Brazil military chopper
SAO PAULO - Investigators so far have found no bullet holes in a crashed Brazilian military helicopter or in the bodies of four police officers who died when the chopper went down during an anti-drug ...
Nov 21, 2016
Pope allows all priests to absolve "grave sin" of abortion
VATICAN CITY - Saying nothing is beyond the reach of God’s mercy, Pope Francis told Catholics worldwide he is allowing all priests to absolve the faithful of abortion - women and health workers ...
Nov 21, 2016