Category Archives: World
Key findings from USC's latest diversity study
A report to be released Wednesday by the Media, Diversity and Social Change Initiative at the University of Southern California’s Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism finds little e...
Sep 06, 2016

Happy landings: 3 space station crew members back on Earth
After watching more than 2,750 sunrises from above the Earth, three crew members of the International Space Station returned to the planet for a sparkling sunrise back on Earth Wednesday. A record-set...
Sep 06, 2016
Boston's police commissioner, union spar over body cameras
Boston’s police commissioner squared off in court Tuesday with the leader of the city’s largest police union over a plan to have 100 officers wear body cameras, as lawyers for each side ac...
Sep 06, 2016
Los Angeles airport shooter pleads guilty, faces life term
LOS ANGELES - An unemployed motorcycle mechanic who gunned down airport screening officers at Los Angeles International Airport in a 2013 attack that sent passengers running for their lives pleaded gu...
Sep 06, 2016
Lawsuit: Ballot rewrite on medical marijuana misleading
OKLAHOMA CITY - Oklahoma Republican Attorney General Scott Pruitt’s rewrite of a proposed ballot question on medical marijuana is intentionally misleading and could confuse people into thinking ...
Sep 06, 2016
13 shot to death, dozens wounded in Chicago shootings
CHICAGO - Thirteen people were shot to death over the Labor Day weekend in Chicago, making it the deadliest holiday weekend of one of the deadliest summers the city has experienced in decades. The pol...
Sep 06, 2016
Judge grants partial stop on North Dakota pipeline work
WASHINGTON - An American Indian tribe succeeded Tuesday in getting a federal judge to temporarily stop construction on some, but not all, of a $3.8 billion four-state oil pipeline, but its broader req...
Sep 06, 2016
New York's attorney general investigates EpiPen manufacturer
ALBANY, N.Y. - The state attorney general’s office is investigating whether Mylan Pharmaceuticals unfairly limited competition for its emergency allergy treatment EpiPen, which has been criticiz...
Sep 06, 2016

Trump, Clinton not planning to campaign on 9-11
NEW YORK - Neither of the two New Yorkers vying for the White House is expected to commemorate the 15th anniversary of the Sept. 11th terror attacks with a visit to ground zero. Hillary Clinton and Do...
Sep 06, 2016
High court temporarily blocks subpoena over sex ads
WASHINGTON - Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts on Tuesday temporarily blocked a congressional subpoena that seeks information on how the classified advertising website Backpage.com screens ads ...
Sep 06, 2016