Category Archives: World
Broadcom buying Brocade Communications in $5.5B deal
NEW YORK - Chipmaker Broadcom is buying Brocade in a deal valued at approximately $5.5 billion. Brocade shareholders will receive $12.75 per share, a 13 per cent premium to the Tuesday closing prices ...
Nov 02, 2016

Sean Hannity sorry for fake story on Michelle Obama, Clinton
NEW YORK - Sean Hannity has apologized for reading a fake news story on air that claimed first lady Michelle Obama had scrubbed her Twitter account of mentions of Democratic presidential nominee Hilla...
Nov 02, 2016
Autopsy: Man killed by Chicago-area police was shot 5 times
CHICAGO - An autopsy by the Cook County medical examiner’s office has determined that a man killed by suburban Chicago police was shot five times, including once in the back. Donte Jones of Mayw...
Nov 02, 2016

Walter Scott's passenger in traffic stop: 'He was murdered'
CHARLESTON, S.C. - A man riding with a motorist who was fatally shot by a police officer while running away from a traffic stop testified Thursday that he doesn’t know why his friend tried to fl...
Nov 02, 2016

Survey: US businesses add just 147,000 jobs in October
WASHINGTON - U.S. companies added the fewest jobs in four months in October, as construction and manufacturing firms continued to shed workers, a private survey says. Payroll provider ADP says busines...
Nov 02, 2016

Iraqi forces consolidate their gains in eastern Mosul
MOSUL, Iraq - Iraqi special forces mopping up in territory seized in eastern Mosul killed eight Islamic State militants Wednesday as residents fled to safety from nearby areas and men shaved the beard...
Nov 02, 2016
Swiss police raid mosque in northern city; 8 detained
GENEVA - Swiss police raided a mosque in a northern city on Wednesday, detaining eight people including an Ethiopian imam who allegedly called for the killing of Muslims who refused to participate in ...
Nov 02, 2016
Mom charged with giving kids heroin to help them sleep
TACOMA, Wash. - A Washington state mother is charged with giving her three small children heroin after a boy told investigators his mother used a needle to inject him and his sisters with “feel ...
Nov 02, 2016

Latest: Man describes confrontations with shooting suspect
DES MOINES, Iowa - The Latest on two officers in the Des Moines, Iowa, area who were killed in what authorities describe as ambush-style attacks (all times local): 6 p.m. A man says he had two recent ...
Nov 02, 2016

South Africa watchdog report increases pressure on president
JOHANNESBURG - South African President Jacob Zuma faced growing calls to resign on Wednesday after the release of a state report that found possible evidence of corruption at top levels of a governmen...
Nov 02, 2016