Category Archives: World

Jackson faces pointed questions at Senate hearing
WASHINGTON (AP) - Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson faced senators' questions for the first time Tuesday as Democrats push to quickly confirm the only Black female justice in the court's 233...
Mar 22, 2022

Navalny sentenced to 9 years in prison by Russian court
MOSCOW (AP) - Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny was convicted of fraud and contempt of court and sentenced to nine years in a maximum security prison on Tuesday. A judge also ruled that Navalny...
Mar 22, 2022

Civilians fleeing Mariupol describe street-to-street battles
LVIV, Ukraine (AP) - Civilians making the dangerous escape from Ukraine's embattled southern port hub of Mariupol described fleeing through street-to-street gun battles and past unburied corpses as a ...
Mar 21, 2022

Indiana governor vetoes transgender girls sports ban
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) - Indiana's governor on Monday vetoed a bill banning transgender females from participating in girls school sports while signing another eliminating the state's permit requirement to...
Mar 21, 2022

Jury convicts man in slaying of NBA player Lorenzen Wright
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) - A jury on Monday convicted a Tennessee man in the slaying of former NBA player Lorenzen Wright, whose bullet-riddled body was found in a field nearly 12 years ago in his hometown...
Mar 21, 2022

20 days in Mariupol: The team that documented city’s agony
MARIUPOL, Ukraine (AP) - The Russians were hunting us down. They had a list of names, including ours, and they were closing in. We were the only international journalists left in the Ukrainian city, a...
Mar 21, 2022

Jamaicans shun UK royal visit, demand slavery reparations
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) - Dozens of well-known leaders in Jamaica including professors and politicians are demanding an apology and slavery reparations as the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge prepare ...
Mar 21, 2022

Ex-wife accuses top Missouri GOP Senate candidate of abuse
COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) - Former Missouri Gov. Eric Greitens, now a leading Republican Senate candidate, was physically abusive and demonstrated such "unstable and coercive behavior" that steps were taken ...
Mar 21, 2022

Hearing opens for Jackson, 1st Black female high court pick
WASHINGTON (AP) - The Senate Judiciary Committee on Monday gaveled open the Supreme Court confirmation hearings for Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, the first Black woman nominated for the nation's highes...
Mar 21, 2022

State media report crash of Chinese airliner with 133 aboard
BEIJING (AP) - A Chinese airliner with 133 people on board crashed in the southern province of Guangxi on Monday, state media has reported. Broadcaster CCTV said the accident involved a China Eastern ...
Mar 21, 2022