Category Archives: World
As seizures top 400 in US China carfentanil trade thrives
SHANGHAI - Seizures of the deadly chemical carfentanil have exploded across the United States, with more than 400 cases documented in eight states since July alone, The Associated Press has found. Fue...
Nov 03, 2016

L.A. TV anchor arrested on suspicion of headphone theft
LOS ANGELES - Lu Parker, a local television news anchor in Los Angeles and a former Miss USA, was arrested Wednesday at Los Angeles International Airport on suspicion of stealing a pair of earbud head...
Nov 03, 2016

Putin grants Russian citizenship to actor Steven Seagal
MOSCOW - Russian President Vladimir Putin has awarded Russian citizenship to action film actor Steven Seagal, the Kremlin said Thursday. The 64-year-old Seagal has been a regular visitor to Russia in ...
Nov 03, 2016
This isn't 'Survivor,' Obama says; Trump, Clinton fire away
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. - Donald Trump warned Thursday that a cloud of investigation would follow Hillary Clinton into the White House, evoking the bitter impeachment battle of the 1990s in a closing campa...
Nov 03, 2016

Alabama scheduled to execute man in '82 murder-for-hire
ATMORE, Ala. - An Alabama man convicted of the 1982 shooting death of a woman’s husband in a murder-for-hire arrangement was set to be executed Thursday evening. Tommy Arthur, now 74, was convic...
Nov 03, 2016

Where the buffalo roam: Herd treads again on tribal land
WIND RIVER INDIAN RESERVATION, Wyo. - The men stood by the edge of the corral to mark the release of the first buffalo to run on the Wind River Indian Reservation in decades. The sound of their drums ...
Nov 03, 2016

Afghan police: Roadside bombing in Helmand kills reporter
KABUL - A roadside bombing in Afghanistan’s southern Helmand province on Friday killed an Afghan journalist and wounded another, the police said. The explosion took place in the provincial capit...
Nov 03, 2016

Egypt devalues, floats its currency, meeting key IMF demand
CAIRO - Egypt on Thursday took the unprecedented step of floating its currency and later hiked fuel prices, meeting key demands by the International Monetary Fund under a $12 billion loan agreement to...
Nov 03, 2016
No quick ruling on claim about GOP watchers at Nevada polls
LAS VEGAS - Democrats in Nevada are citing memories of post-Civil War voter intimidation by the Ku Klux Klan in a bid to get a federal judge to order people supporting Donald Trump not to harass voter...
Nov 03, 2016
Expert: Ohio cop on trial in shooting wasn't dragged by car
CINCINNATI - Analysis of body camera video shows that a white University of Cincinnati police officer was not being dragged by the car of the unarmed black man he fatally shot during a traffic stop la...
Nov 03, 2016