Category Archives: World
Younger, diverse voters are reshaping California politics
LOS ANGELES - Come Election Day, California could legalize pot. Its new U.S. senator will be black or Hispanic - a first for the state. And voters could end the death penalty and revive bilingual educ...
Oct 23, 2016
West Virginia candidate for governor owes millions in taxes
HINDMAN, Ky. - Jim Justice, a coal billionaire running for West Virginia governor, owes millions in back taxes to some of Appalachia’s most impoverished counties, including one in Kentucky that ...
Oct 23, 2016
How one drug cartel banked its cash in New York City
NEW YORK - In the photos, Alejandra Salgado and her little brother Francisco look like ordinary tourists strolling the streets of midtown Manhattan. He carries a shopping bag. She wears a white dress,...
Oct 23, 2016
Civil rights hero from 60s takes criticism as Trump backer
HIGH POINT, N.C. - Clarence Henderson was hailed as a hero nearly 60 years ago when as a young black man he participated in a sit-in at a segregated North Carolina lunch counter. In 2016, he is again ...
Oct 23, 2016
Fight over Vanderbilts' Breakers mansion goes to high court
PROVIDENCE, R.I. - The Rhode Island Supreme Court is stepping into a fight that has pitted dozens of members of the Vanderbilt family against a non-profit that owns several well-known mansions in Newp...
Oct 23, 2016
Space station accepts 1st Virginia delivery in 2 years
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - The International Space Station received its first shipment from Virginia in more than two years Sunday following a sensational nighttime launch observed 250 miles up and down t...
Oct 23, 2016
Trump's 'nasty woman' remark adds to woes with female voters
NEW YORK - “Such a nasty woman.” Like many people, 23-year-old Emily DiVito was multitasking while watching last week’s presidential debate, with a little studying and a little Twitt...
Oct 23, 2016
Arizona, long a Republican bastion, targeted by Clinton
PHOENIX - There is palpable momentum for Democrat Hillary Clinton in Arizona, a state so traditionally Republican that her party’s nominee for president has carried it just once in the past 64 y...
Oct 23, 2016
Widows of victims of Nigeria's Boko Haram say aid overdue
MAIDUGURI, Nigeria - After her husband was killed by a Boko Haram suicide bomber late last year, Hajjagana Mbasaru was forced to pull her children from school and rely on friends to feed them. Like ot...
Oct 23, 2016
Ballot selfies: A look at where they are allowed or not
Secrecy in the voting booth has become a thing of the past for those ready to share their views and daily lives on social media, but laws nationwide are mixed on the question of whether voters are all...
Oct 23, 2016