Category Archives: World

House approves $40B in Ukraine aid, beefing up Biden request
WASHINGTON (AP) - The House emphatically approved a fresh $40 billion Ukraine aid package Tuesday as lawmakers beefed up President Joe Biden's initial request, signaling a magnified, bipartisan commit...
May 10, 2022

Election 2022: Blood wins Nebraska’s Democratic governor nod
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) - Nebraska state Sen. Carol Blood won the Democratic nomination for governor on Tuesday as Republicans worked through a crowded field of candidates, including one running with former ...
May 10, 2022

Rep. Carol Miller renominated in West Virginia GOP primary
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) - Incumbent U.S. Rep. Carol Miller breezed into the Republican nomination in West Virginia's 1st District race Tuesday, as two GOP incumbents battled for the lone remaining seat...
May 10, 2022

Haitian gang leader charged in kidnapping of US missionaries
WASHINGTON (AP) - Federal prosecutors in the U.S. have charged the leader of a notoriously violent Haitian gang with conspiracy to commit hostage taking for his alleged role in the kidnapping of 16 Am...
May 10, 2022

Man charged with killing mother at sea to inherit estate
BURLINGTON, Vt. (AP) - A man found floating on a raft in the ocean off the coast of Rhode Island in 2016 after his boat sank has been indicted on charges alleging he killed his mother at sea to inheri...
May 10, 2022

Leonid Kravchuk, independent Ukraine's 1st president, dies
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) - Leonid Kravchuk, who led Ukraine to independence amid the collapse of the Soviet Union and served as its first president, has died, Ukrainian officials said Tuesday. He was 88. An...
May 10, 2022

No charges for Mike Tyson for punching airplane passenger
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Authorities will not file criminal charges against former heavyweight champ Mike Tyson after he was recorded on video punching a fellow first-class passenger aboard a plane at San...
May 10, 2022

Sheriff: Alabama inmate, jailer were prepared for a shootout
The murder suspect and his jailer who evaded authorities for more than a week after walking out of an Alabama lockup were carrying $29,000 in cash, four handguns and an AR-15 rifle and were prepared f...
May 10, 2022

'Wagatha Christie': Soccer spouses' libel battle opens in UK
LONDON (AP) - A trial involving two soccer spouses, one of whom publicly called out the other for allegedly leaking her private social media posts to a British tabloid newspaper, opened Tuesday in Lon...
May 10, 2022

Putin marks Victory Day with little to show for 11-week war
ZAPORIZHZHIA, Ukraine (AP) - With no major new battlefield success to boast of, Russian President Vladimir Putin marked his country's biggest patriotic holiday without even uttering the word "Ukraine,...
May 09, 2022