Category Archives: World

Senate bargainers announce outline of gun violence agreement
WASHINGTON (AP) - Senate bargainers announced a bipartisan framework Sunday responding to last month's mass shootings, a modest breakthrough offering measured gun curbs and bolstered efforts to improv...
Jun 12, 2022

#ChurchToo revelations growing, years after movement began
A withering report on sexual abuse and cover-up in the Southern Baptist Convention, the largest Protestant denomination in the U.S. A viral video in which a woman confronts her pastor at an independen...
Jun 12, 2022

Alaska high court sides with state in ballot access case
JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) - The Alaska Supreme Court has reversed a lower court decision that barred state elections officials from certifying the results of Saturday's special U.S. House primary amid conce...
Jun 11, 2022

US judge dismisses Cristiano Ronaldo rape lawsuit in Vegas
LAS VEGAS (AP) - A Nevada woman has lost her bid in a U.S. court to force international soccer star Cristiano Ronaldo to pay millions of dollars more than the $375,000 in hush money she received after...
Jun 11, 2022

Judge blocks Texas investigating families of trans youth
A Texas judge on Friday temporarily blocked the state from investigating families of transgender children who have received gender-confirming medical care, a new obstacle to the state labeling such tr...
Jun 10, 2022

Bond set at $100,000 for Mich. cop who killed Patrick Lyoya
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (AP) - A judge set bond at $100,000 for a Michigan police officer charged with second-degree murder in the shooting of Patrick Lyoya. The judge on Tuesday also entered a not-guilty...
Jun 10, 2022

UK judge nixes first legal challenge to Rwanda deportations
LONDON (AP) - A British judge has rejected a bid to ground a flight due to take more than 30 asylum-seekers on a one-way flight to Rwanda next week. Judge Jonathan Swift refused a request from a group...
Jun 10, 2022

US lifts COVID-19 test requirement for international travel
WASHINGTON (AP) - The Biden administration is lifting its requirement that international air travelers to the U.S. take a COVID-19 test within a day before boarding their flights, easing one of the la...
Jun 10, 2022

Pope cancels trip to Congo and South Sudan due to knee issue
VATICAN CITY (AP) - Pope Francis has canceled his planned July trip to Congo and South Sudan on doctors' orders because of ongoing knee problems. The Vatican said on Friday that the trip had been post...
Jun 10, 2022

Uvalde school police chief defends Texas shooting response
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - The Texas school police chief criticized for his actions during one of the deadliest classroom shootings in U.S. history said in his first extensive comments, published Thursday, ...
Jun 09, 2022