Category Archives: World
Official: Plane in Chicago had 'uncontained engine failure'
CHICAGO - Pilots were forced to abort a takeoff and evacuate passengers from a burning American Airlines flight Friday on a runway at Chicago O’Hare International Airport after the airliner expe...
Oct 28, 2016
Activists split as Clinton makes push for black millennials
PHILADELPHIA - Six months into Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign, she met with a group of Black Lives Matter activists in Washington to make her case and seek their support. DeRay Mckesson...
Oct 28, 2016
Education gap divides white voters
DODGE CITY, Kan. - At 18, Mike Smith chose trucking over college. Hauling cattle feed was lucrative for a teenager, and it seemed he could have a pretty good life without a degree. Now, 40 years later...
Oct 28, 2016
With newfound vigour, Obama works to rebuild Democratic Party
WASHINGTON - Gone is the old President Barack Obama, who approached campaigning for other Democrats as a chore. The new Obama is throwing himself into rebuilding his party in his final months in the W...
Oct 28, 2016
Sotheby sale features Edvard Munch work that may fetch $50M
NEW YORK - A work by the Norwegian artist Edvard Munch (AYD’-vart moongk) will highlight Sotheby’s fall auction of impressionist and modern art. The auction house expects the painting R...
Oct 28, 2016
Ukrainian man renames himself iPhone 7 to win the phone
KIEV, Ukraine - A Ukrainian man has officially changed his name to iPhone 7 after an electronics store offered the latest Apple product to the first five people who do that. The 20-year old iPhone Sim...
Oct 28, 2016
FBI investigating new emails for classified information
WASHINGTON - The FBI is investigating whether there is classified information in new emails uncovered during the sexting investigation of disgraced former congressman Anthony Weiner, the estranged hus...
Oct 28, 2016
Does baby powder cause cancer? Another jury says yes.
TRENTON, N.J. - For the third time, Johnson & Johnson has been hit with a multimillion-dollar jury verdict over whether the talc in its iconic baby powder causes ovarian cancer when applied regula...
Oct 28, 2016
NewsAlert: Clinton predicts new FBI probe on emails will not change anything
DES MOINES, Iowa - Hillary Clinton says she is confident new emails will not change FBI’s conclusion she should not face prosecution. She also calls on FBI to immediately release all information...
Oct 28, 2016
UN gets release of 876 children detained by Nigeria military
LAGOS, Nigeria - The United Nations has negotiated the release this year of 876 children detained at a Nigerian army barracks holding suspected collaborators of the Boko Haram Islamic extremist group,...
Oct 28, 2016