Category Archives: World
Source: Connecticut provost to lead University of Missouri
KANSAS CITY, Mo. - A University of Connecticut provost is about to be named president of the University of Missouri, nearly a year after the Columbia campus was roiled by protests over administrators&...
Oct 31, 2016
CNN: Not happy with Brazile's talk about debate questions
NEW YORK - CNN said Monday it is “completely uncomfortable” to learn through WikiLeaks that former commentator Donna Brazile had contacted the Clinton campaign ahead of time about a questi...
Oct 31, 2016
Judge throws out convictions of 2 'Norfolk Four' defendants
RICHMOND, Va. - A federal judge on Monday threw out the rape and murder convictions of two former sailors who have long maintained that police intimidated them into falsely confessing to the crimes ne...
Oct 31, 2016
Bank of England governor Mark Carney to stay through June 2019
LONDON - Bank of England governor Mark Carney announced Monday that he will extend his term in office by one year and stay in the position through June 2019, a decision that may help settle speculatio...
Oct 31, 2016
Millions pour into Wisconsin's US Senate race in final days
MADISON, Wis. - Millions of dollars poured into Wisconsin starting Monday for the final week of the election, as jittery Democrats tried to push Russ Feingold over the finish line in the U.S. Senate r...
Oct 31, 2016
Clinton shapes agenda for first year of potential presidency
WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. - Hillary Clinton’s advisers are crafting a domestic policy agenda for the opening months of a potential presidency that is centred on three issues with some level of Republic...
Oct 31, 2016
Sweden declares hero Wallenberg officially dead
STOCKHOLM - World War II hero Raoul Wallenberg, who is credited with helping at least 20,000 Hungarian Jews escape the Holocaust, has been pronounced dead by Swedish authorities, 71 years after he dis...
Oct 31, 2016
Toyota to test car-sharing system that doesn't use keys
DETROIT - Toyota will test a new car-sharing system next year that lets users unlock doors and start cars with their smartphones. The Smart Key Box system eliminates the need for a physical key. Toyot...
Oct 31, 2016
Cosby wants other accusers to take competency, memory tests
PHILADELPHIA - Bill Cosby’s lawyers accused prosecutors Monday of trying to use the “tainted, unreliable memories of women, now in their senior years” to build their sexual assault c...
Oct 31, 2016
The 2016 presidential campaign put the 'ugh' in ugly
WASHINGTON - Good riddance to Campaign 2016, the election that put the “ugh” in ugly. Big league. Headed for history books a week from Tuesday, the duel between Hillary Clinton and Donald ...
Oct 31, 2016