Category Archives: World

A-list shows returning to Atlantic City with Guns N' Roses
ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) - Welcome (back) to the jungle: Guns N' Roses is playing an Atlantic City casino this year. The iconic hard rock band has booked two dates at the Hard Rock casino Sept. 11 and...
Jun 01, 2021

Kelly Osbourne opens up about drug and alcohol addictions
NEW YORK (AP) - Kelly Osbourne is opening up about her battles with drug and alcohol addiction, stopping by "Red Table Talk" to discuss getting hooked as a teen and relapsing after the pandemic. The T...
Jun 01, 2021

New Vatican law criminalizes abuse of adults, even by laity
VATICAN CITY (AP) - Pope Francis has changed church law to explicitly criminalize the sexual abuse of adults by priests who abuse their authority and to say that laypeople who hold church office can b...
Jun 01, 2021

UN watchdog: Access to key Iranian data lacking since Feb 23
VIENNA (AP) - The United Nations' atomic watchdog hasn't been able to access data important to monitoring Iran's nuclear program since late February when the Islamic Republic started restricting inter...
May 31, 2021

Blair Underwood, wife Desiree DaCosta ending marriage
Actor Blair Underwood and his wife, Desiree DaCosta, have announced they're ending their marriage after 27 years. In a joint statement posted to Instagram, the couple called their marriage "a beautifu...
May 31, 2021

Pakistani TV bans host of talk show after he criticized army
ISLAMABAD (AP) - A Pakistani television station on Monday took a prominent journalist off air, removing him as host of a popular talk show after he criticized the country's powerful military. The deve...
May 31, 2021

Man urges Chinese judge to reject torture-tainted evidence
CANBERRA, Australia (AP) - A Chinese Australian writer tried in Beijing for alleged espionage said he pleaded to a judge to reject evidence of what he had said while being tortured by interrogators. Y...
May 31, 2021

Dems walk, stop Texas GOP's sweeping voting restrictions
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - A restrictive voting bill in Texas that was on the verge of Republican Gov. Greg Abbott's desk failed to pass Sunday night after Democrats walked out of the House chamber before a...
May 30, 2021

Religious leaders, artists honor George Floyd in concert
HOUSTON (AP) - Religious leaders, musical guests, spoken word artists and politicians gathered for a concert in Houston, the home town of George Floyd, to commemorate the anniversary of his death. Pas...
May 30, 2021

Fueling box-office rebound, 'Quiet Place' opens with $58.5M
NEW YORK (AP) - Moviegoing increasingly looks like it didn't die during the pandemic. It just went into hibernation. John Krasinski's thriller sequel "A Quiet Place Part II" opened over the Memorial D...
May 30, 2021