Category Archives: World
Airline mixes up 5-year-old boys, flies them to wrong cities
NEW YORK - A woman in New York says she hasn’t stopped crying since an airline mistook her 5-year-old for another child and flew him to the wrong city. Maribel Martinez tells New York’s Da...
Sep 01, 2016

Hawaii dodges Madeline damage, prepares for second storm
HILO, Hawaii - A tropical storm left parts of Hawaii’s Big Island soggy but intact Thursday as residents of the island state prepared for a second round of potentially volatile tropical weather....
Sep 01, 2016

Syria strikes kill 25 as another Damascus suburb surrenders
BEIRUT - Syria’s government secured a deal to restore its authority over another rebellious Damascus suburb on Thursday while Syrian rebels captured new ground in a lightning advance on the cent...
Sep 01, 2016
LA airport gunman to plead guilty in TSA officer slaying
LOS ANGELES - A gunman who killed a federal airport screening officer and wounded three people in a terrifying rampage at Los Angeles International Airport three years ago agreed to plead guilty in a ...
Sep 01, 2016

YouTube star PewDiePie back on Twitter after ISIS joke
LOS ANGELES - The most popular YouTuber is back on Twitter after joking that his account became unverified because he joined ISIS. Felix “PewDiePie” Kjellberg’s Twitter account was b...
Sep 01, 2016
Rough terrain complicates efforts to recover bodies in crash
ANCHORAGE, Alaska - Rough terrain complicated efforts to recover the bodies of four Alaskans and a Montana man who were killed when two small planes collided in western Alaska, authorities said Thursd...
Sep 01, 2016

In middle of Pacific, Obama pleas for protecting ecosystems
President Barack Obama plunked down on a speck of coral reef in the middle of the Pacific Ocean on Thursday and gazed out at the turquoise waters of the marine monument he’s widened to become th...
Sep 01, 2016
Mayor: Cop's tattoo 'offensive,' especially to Nazi victims
PHILADELPHIA - The Philadelphia Police Department on Thursday announced an internal review after a photograph surfaced online of an officer with a tattoo that the mayor called “incredibly offens...
Sep 01, 2016

Report documents decades of abuse at elite boarding school
PROVIDENCE, R.I. - The elite boarding school St. George’s became a kind of “private hell” for dozens of students in the 1970s and ’80s who were manipulated and sexually abused ...
Sep 01, 2016

US factory activity shrinks for first time in 6 months
WASHINGTON - U.S. manufacturing contracted last month for the first time since February, as new orders and output plummeted and factories cut jobs. The Institute for Supply Management said Thursday th...
Sep 01, 2016