Category Archives: World
Penguin Random House to release Zayn Malik autobiography
LOS ANGELES - Zayn Malik is telling his life story. Penguin Random House announced Tuesday that it will publish the 23-year-old’s “first autobiography.” “Zayn” will be re...
Sep 13, 2016
Solange Knowles describes negative experience at concert
NEW ORLEANS - A family outing tied to giving her 11-year-old son and his friend a history lesson on hip-hop turned into a disappointing experience for singer Solange Knowles when she says a group of w...
Sep 13, 2016
Appeals court: Only 1 Ohio ballot rule a burden on voters
COLUMBUS, Ohio - A federal appeals court blocked rules requiring precise completion of thousands of absentee ballots in swing state Ohio, but upheld other challenged election-law changes in a Tuesday ...
Sep 13, 2016
Americans got raise last year for first time since 2007
WASHINGTON - In a long-awaited sign that middle-class Americans are finally seeing real economic gains, U.S. households got a raise last year after seven years of stagnant incomes. Rising pay also lif...
Sep 13, 2016
Death penalty no option in California girls' 1973 killings
SACRAMENTO, Calif. - A California prosecutor said Wednesday that two men charged with murder in the shotgun slayings of two young girls can’t face the death penalty because it wasn’t an op...
Sep 13, 2016
Michelle Obama debuts as Ellen DeGeneres' co-host
WASHINGTON - Michelle Obama thinks her daughters will have a “tough time” leaving the White House because they grew up there. The first lady says her family will miss the staff the most be...
Sep 13, 2016
Democrats call for probe of Trump check to Florida AG
WASHINGTON - House Democrats called Tuesday for a federal criminal investigation into an improper $25,000 donation Donald Trump’s charity made to a political group supporting Florida’s att...
Sep 13, 2016
Alec Baldwin welcomes baby boy with wife Hilaria
NEW YORK - Alec Baldwin and his wife, Hilaria, have welcomed their third child together. The actor announced the birth of son Leonardo Angel Charles on Twitter Monday night. His post linked to Hilaria...
Sep 13, 2016
Former head of officers' group pleads guilty to fraud
ST. LOUIS - A former St. Louis police sergeant on Tuesday admitted stealing stole more than $80,000 from the organization for black police officers that he once led. Darren Randal Wilson, 42, pleaded ...
Sep 13, 2016
US budget deficit totals $107.1 billion in August
WASHINGTON - The federal government recorded a deficit of $107.1 billion in August, slightly lower than the July deficit. But the imbalance through 11 months of this budget year is up sharply from a y...
Sep 13, 2016