Category Archives: World

Jets hire 49ers defensive co-ordinator Robert Saleh as coach
NEW YORK - The New York Jets were searching for a leader, someone who could bring a frustrated, playoff-starved franchise back to respectability. They think they found their guy in Robert Saleh. The J...
Jan 14, 2021

Michael Cohen writes foreword for Trump impeachment book
NEW YORK - A bound edition of materials about President Donald Trump's second impeachment will feature a foreword from an estranged associate - former Trump attorney Michael Cohen. Skyhorse Publishing...
Jan 14, 2021

Quake sets off landslides, kills at least 3 in Indonesia
JAKARTA, Indonesia - A strong, shallow earthquake shook Indonesia's Sulawesi island just after midnight, causing landslides and sending people fleeing from their homes in the nighttime darkness. At le...
Jan 14, 2021

FBI tracking 'extensive' online chatter about armed protests
WASHINGTON - The FBI is tracking an "extensive amount of concerning online chatter," including calls for armed protests leading up to next week's presidential inauguration, Director Chris Wray said Th...
Jan 14, 2021

GOP senators in spotlight as second impeachment trial looms
WASHINGTON - For a second time, Republican senators face the choice of whether to convict President Donald Trump in an impeachment trial. While only one GOP senator, Utah's Mitt Romney, voted to convi...
Jan 14, 2021

Joanne Rogers, widow of TV's famed Mister Rogers, dies at 92
PITTSBURGH - Joanne Rogers, the widow of Fred Rogers and an accomplished concert pianist, has died. She was 92. Rogers, who nurtured the memory and legacy of the gentle TV host who entertained and edu...
Jan 14, 2021

Riot? Insurrection? Words matter in describing Capitol siege
NEW YORK - At first, viewed from a distance, it was a rally or protest. Then it became an assault, a riot, an insurrection, domestic terrorism or even a coup attempt. The language used by the American...
Jan 14, 2021

Expanded vaccine rollout in US spawns a new set of problems
The rapid expansion of COVID-19 vaccinations to senior citizens across the U.S. has led to bottlenecks, system crashes and hard feelings in many states because of overwhelming demand for the shots. Mi...
Jan 14, 2021

Gov't watchdog: DOJ failed 'zero tolerance' management
WASHINGTON - Justice Department leaders under President Donald Trump knew their 2018 "zero tolerance" border policy would result in family separations but pressed on with prosecutions even as other ag...
Jan 14, 2021

NY attorney general sues NYPD over Floyd protest response
New York's attorney general sued the New York Police Department on Thursday, calling the rough treatment of protesters against racial injustice last spring part of a longstanding pattern of abuse that...
Jan 14, 2021