Category Archives: World

Russia says station attack was on Ukrainian military target
CHAPLYNE, Ukraine (AP) - The death toll from a Russian rocket attack on a train station and the surrounding area as Ukraine celebrated its Independence Day climbed to 25, including at least two childr...
Aug 25, 2022

Putin orders Russian military to start beefing up in 2023
MOSCOW (AP) - Russian President Vladimir Putin has ordered the Russian military to increase the size of the country's armed forces by 137,000 amid Moscow's military action in Ukraine. Putin's decree s...
Aug 25, 2022

Japan police chief to resign over Abe shooting death
TOKYO (AP) - Japan's national police chief on Thursday said he will resign to take responsibility over the fatal shooting of former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe at a campaign speech last month. ...
Aug 24, 2022

Idaho can’t enforce abortion ban in medical emergencies
LUBBOCK, Texas - A federal judge has barred Idaho from enforcing a strict abortion ban in medical emergencies, clearing the way for hospitals to continue treating ectopic pregnancies and other pregnan...
Aug 24, 2022

Kobe Bryant widow awarded $16M in trial over crash photos
LOS ANGELES (AP) - A federal jury found Wednesday that Los Angeles County must pay Kobe Bryant's widow $16 million over photos of the NBA star's body at the site of the 2020 helicopter crash site that...
Aug 24, 2022

Uvalde school chief defends actions ahead of possible firing
UVALDE, Texas (AP) - An attorney for Uvlade's embattled school police leader defended the response of the Robb Elementary School massacre Wednesday in a scathing and defiant letter released just befor...
Aug 24, 2022

Utah sues Biden over move to restore 2 national monuments
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) - Republican state leaders in Utah sued the Biden administration on Wednesday over the president's decision last year to restore two sprawling national monuments on rugged lands sa...
Aug 24, 2022

Ghislaine Maxwell's lawyers sue for over $878K in fees
DENVER (AP) - A law firm that helped defend Ghislaine Maxwell, the socialite convicted of helping the financier Jeffrey Epstein sexually abuse underage girls, is suing her, her brother and husband, sa...
Aug 24, 2022

15 reported killed in Independence Day attack in Ukraine
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) - Ukraine's president says Russian forces have launched a rocket attack on a railroad station in central Ukraine on the country's Independence Day, killing at least 15 people and wo...
Aug 24, 2022

Oklahoma governor rejects clemency for death row inmate
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) - Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt on Wednesday rejected clemency for a man facing execution this week for the 1997 hammer killing of a Choctaw man, despite a recommendation from the state...
Aug 24, 2022