Category Archives: World
Santa Ana winds bring Southern California heat, fire danger
LOS ANGELES - Santa Ana winds gusted out of the mountains of Southern California on Wednesday, driving up temperatures and fanning several small brush fires that erupted in the drought-stricken region...
Oct 19, 2016
AP FACT CHECK: Trump, Clinton and their debate claims
WASHINGTON - Donald Trump painted an inaccurately dark portrait of manufacturing in America while Hillary Clinton stretched credulity in boasting that her spending plans won’t add to the country...
Oct 19, 2016
AP FACT CHECK: Clinton misstates high court ruling on guns
WASHINGTON - A claim from the final presidential debate and how it stacks up with the facts: HILLARY CLINTON: “I disagreed with the way the court applied the Second Amendment” in the Distr...
Oct 19, 2016
The Latest: Clinton says Trump looks to blame somebody else
LAS VEGAS - Here is The Latest news from the third and final presidential debate between Republican Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton, less than three weeks before the Nov. 8 election (all times EDT): ...
Oct 19, 2016
NYC mayor: Police shooting of woman, 66, was 'unacceptable'
New York City’s mayor castigated a police sergeant Wednesday for fatally shooting a mentally ill, 66-year-old woman brandishing a baseball bat, saying her “tragic” and “unaccep...
Oct 19, 2016
Ivanka Trump says father will concede election if defeated
NEW YORK - Ivanka Trump, arguably her father’s most influential surrogate, suggested Wednesday that the Republican nominee will honour the results of the election if he loses. Asked at Fortune M...
Oct 19, 2016
Auction of Trump's boyhood home postponed
NEW YORK - Will Donald Trump’s first boyhood home in New York City be worth more, or less, after the election? The people trying to sell the charming, Tudor-style home in a leafy section of Quee...
Oct 19, 2016
Phil Chess, co-founder of blues label Chess Records, dies
CHICAGO - Chess Records co-founder Phil Chess, who with brother Leonard helped launch the careers of Chuck Berry, Howlin’ Wolf, Muddy Waters and others and amassed a catalogue of rock and electr...
Oct 19, 2016
Zika test urged for pregnant women throughout Florida county
NEW YORK - The government on Wednesday recommended Zika testing for all pregnant women who recently spent time anywhere in Florida’s Miami-Dade County. The county is the only area in the contine...
Oct 19, 2016
Final cleanup of Alaska automobile junkyard is underway
ANCHORAGE, Alaska - The final cleanup is underway in Anchorage after the 1964 Great Alaska Earthquake helped turn a sea-side bluff into an auto junkyard. Here’s a quick look at how the vehicles ...
Oct 19, 2016