Category Archives: World

Testimony: Waffle House shooter wrote to Winfrey, Swift
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - A man who shot and killed four people in a Nashville Waffle House in 2018 had written Oprah Winfrey asking for help in determining whether his delusions that Taylor Swift was c...
Feb 02, 2022

Jury: No defamation from Roy Moore or woman who accused him
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) - A jury on Wednesday found that no defamation occurred between former U.S. Senate candidate Roy Moore and the woman who accused him of molesting her when she was 14. The former ...
Feb 02, 2022

Tennessee Senate debates expelling a convicted colleague
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - The Republican-led Tennessee Senate voted Wednesday to remove Democratic Sen. Katrina Robinson from office because of her recent wire fraud conviction, the first time the chamb...
Feb 02, 2022

Explosion fears remain as N. Carolina fertilizer plant burns
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. (AP) - An uncontrolled fire at a fertilizer plant in North Carolina continued to burn early Wednesday, forcing firefighters and thousands of evacuated residents to remain at least ...
Feb 02, 2022

Trial of 3 cops in Floyd death delayed by COVID-19 diagnosis
ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) - The judge at the trial of three former Minneapolis police officers charged with violating George Floyd's rights was abruptly recessed on Wednesday after one of the defendants te...
Feb 02, 2022

Biden sending more troops to Europe amid Ukraine tension
BRUSSELS (AP) - President Joe Biden is sending about 2,000 troops from Fort Bragg, North Carolina, to Poland and Germany this week and sending part of an infantry Stryker squadron of roughly 1,000 tro...
Feb 02, 2022

Pfizer asks FDA to allow COVID-19 vaccine for kids under 5
WASHINGTON (AP) - Pfizer on Tuesday asked the U.S. to authorize extra-low doses of its COVID-19 vaccine for children under 5, potentially opening the way for the very youngest Americans to start recei...
Feb 01, 2022

Police: Man in custody in Colo. over alleged threats to UCLA
LOS ANGELES (AP) - A man who allegedly threatened the University of California, Los Angeles, and detailed potential violence against the prominent university over hundreds of pages has been taken into...
Feb 01, 2022

A Uyghur gets death sentence, as China bans once OK'd books
TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) - As the Chinese government tightened its grip over its ethnic Uyghur population, it sentenced one man to death and three others to life in prison last year for textbooks drawn in ...
Jan 31, 2022

Russia responds to US proposal to deescalate Ukraine crisis
UNITED NATIONS (AP) - The Russian government has sent a written response to a U.S. proposal aimed at deescalating the Ukraine crisis, according to three Biden administration officials. The officials a...
Jan 31, 2022