Category Archives: World
WHY IT MATTERS: Race and Policing
WASHINGTON - THE ISSUE: Policing in the United States’ minority communities has been a flashpoint since the deaths of Michael Brown in Missouri, Tamir Rice in Ohio, Sandra Bland in Texas and oth...
Oct 06, 2016
LA sheriff's sergeant killed answering burglary call
LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles County sheriff’s sergeant was shot and killed Wednesday while answering a burglary report and the suspected gunman was arrested after commandeering his patrol car, ra...
Oct 06, 2016
Advice for parents on body image amid 2016 campaign insults
WASHINGTON - Even if your daughters don’t pay much attention to politics, they’d be hard-pressed to have missed Donald Trump’s attack of a former Miss Universe’s weight or comm...
Oct 06, 2016
Poll shows majority in Philippines satisfied with Duterte
MANILA, Philippines - An independent poll released Thursday showed that more than three-quarters of Filipinos are satisfied with President Rodrigo Duterte, even though he is under fire internationally...
Oct 06, 2016
6 killed in Kenya as al-Shabab claims to target Christians
NAIROBI, Kenya - Suspected Islamic extremists killed six people in an attack in northern Kenya near the border with Somalia, an official said Thursday, while the al-Shabab extremist group claimed it h...
Oct 06, 2016
NAACP to help 'fall guy' in deadly 2013 building collapse
PHILADELPHIA - The president of the Philadelphia NAACP says the group plans to help a demolition contractor appeal his long prison sentence in a deadly 2013 building collapse. According to The Philade...
Oct 06, 2016
Buddhist monks lead commemoration of 1976 Thai massacre
BANGKOK - Buddhist monks, survivors, mourners and activists gathered Thursday to mark the 40th anniversary of one of the darkest days in Thailand’s history, when police killed scores of universi...
Oct 06, 2016
Malaysian court lets off 'Budgie 9' who partied in swimsuits
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia - Nine Australians who spent four nights in police detention after stripping down to skimpy swimsuits printed with the Malaysian flag at that nation’s Formula One Grand Pr...
Oct 06, 2016
US claims for jobless aid drop to lowest since mid-April
WASHINGTON - The number of Americans seeking unemployment benefits last week felt to the lowest level since mid-April, another sign that workers are enjoying job security despite sluggish economic gro...
Oct 06, 2016
Lawmaker from fractious UKIP hospitalized after party clash
LONDON - Feuding in Britain’s fractious, right-wing U.K. Independence Party erupted into violence Thursday that left a member of the European Parliament hospitalized with a head injury after an ...
Oct 06, 2016