Category Archives: World
NSA contractor arrest highlights challenge of insider threat
WASHINGTON - The arrest of a former National Security Agency contractor for allegedly stealing classified information represents the second known case since 2013 of a government contractor being publi...
Oct 05, 2016
Lawyer to file complaint in German probe over Erdogan poem
BERLIN - A lawyer for Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Wednesday he will challenge a decision by German prosecutors to drop an investigation of a TV comic who wrote a crude poem about the p...
Oct 05, 2016
UN Security Council formally nominates Guterres
Portugal’s former prime minister Antonio Guterres, who was formally nominated on Thursday to be the next U.N. secretary-general, said he faces “huge challenges” and hopes to see unit...
Oct 05, 2016
Police: Doughnut heist leads to capture of wanted man
HOBBS, N.M. - Authorities say a fugitive’s sweet tooth helped police capture a wanted New Mexico man after he tried to take a doughnut without paying for it. The Hobbs News-Sun reports (https://...
Oct 05, 2016
US services companies report fastest growth in nearly year
WASHINGTON - U.S. services companies grew last month at the fastest pace in nearly a year, potential good news for the U.S. economy. The Institute for Supply Management said Wednesday that its service...
Oct 05, 2016
US factory orders ticked up in August
WASHINGTON - Orders to U.S. factories edged higher in August, with a key category that tracks business investment plan rising for a third straight month. Factory orders increased 0.2 per cent in Augus...
Oct 05, 2016
Arch Coal emerges from Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection
NEW YORK - Arch Coal says it has emerged from Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection and its stock will trade again on the New York Stock Exchange Wednesday. The company, which has been hurt by weakening de...
Oct 05, 2016
US says American killed by rock in restive part of Ethiopia
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia - The U.S. Embassy in Ethiopia is confirming that an American has been killed in a part of the country that has seen months of deadly protests. The embassy on Wednesday attribute...
Oct 05, 2016
AP FACT CHECK: Pence says Trump misspoke on abortion
WASHINGTON - TIM KAINE: “We do not think that women should be punished as Donald Trump said they should for making the decision to have an abortion….That is the fundamental difference betw...
Oct 05, 2016
AP FACT CHECK: Hits, misses on Clinton emails
WASHINGTON - A claim from the vice-presidential debate between Gov. Mike Pence, R-Ind., and Sen. Tim Kaine, D-Va., and how it stacks up with the facts: PENCE: “Hillary Clinton had a private serv...
Oct 05, 2016