Category Archives: World

Sheriff: 2 dead, 8 hurt in South Carolina nightclub shooting
GREENVILLE, S.C. - A shooting at a nightclub early Sunday left two people dead and eight wounded in South Carolina, a sheriff's official said. Two Greenville County sheriff's deputies noticed a distur...
Jul 05, 2020

Lawyer: Remains of missing Texas soldier identified
DALLAS - Army investigators have identified the body of a soldier who vanished more than two months ago from a base in Texas, according to a lawyer for the soldier's family. Remains found last week bu...
Jul 05, 2020

Developers cancel long-delayed, $8B Atlantic Coast Pipeline
RICHMOND, Va. - The developers of the long-delayed, $8 billion Atlantic Coast Pipeline announced the cancellation of the multi-state natural gas project Sunday, citing uncertainties about costs, permi...
Jul 05, 2020

Lebanon holds Baalbek concert despite virus, economic crisis
BAALBEK, Lebanon - For the first time ever, Lebanon on Sunday hosted its annual music festival in the ancient northeastern city of Baalbek without an audience, a move organizers dubbed "an act of cult...
Jul 05, 2020

Cosby citing systemic racism as he fights assault conviction
PHILADELPHIA - In a nearly empty Philadelphia courtroom in June 2015, a lawyer for Bill Cosby implored a federal judge to keep the comedian's testimony in an old sexual battery lawsuit under wraps. It...
Jul 05, 2020

Cosby citing systemic racism as he fights assault conviction
PHILADELPHIA - In a nearly empty Philadelphia courtroom in June 2015, a lawyer for Bill Cosby implored a federal judge to keep the comedian's testimony in an old sexual battery lawsuit under wraps. It...
Jul 05, 2020

Ethiopian police patrol Oromia area and capital after unrest
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia - Ethiopian police were patrolling the country's troubled Oromia region and the capital, Addis Ababa, on Sunday, following a week of unrest in which 166 people were killed and mo...
Jul 05, 2020

Croats vote in close parliamentary race as virus spikes
ZAGREB, Croatia - Amid a spike of new coronavirus cases, voters in Croatia cast ballots on Sunday in what is expected be a close parliamentary race that could push the latest European Union member sta...
Jul 04, 2020

Columbus statue toppled by Baltimore protesters
Baltimore protesters pulled down a statue of Christopher Columbus and threw it into the city's Inner Harbor on Saturday night. Demonstrators used ropes to topple the monument near the Little Italy nei...
Jul 04, 2020

Willie Nelson's July Fourth picnic is virtual in virus era
SPICEWOOD, Texas - Willie Nelson's annual Fourth of July Picnic is going ahead this year, but to reduce concerns about the coronavirus the event will be virtual. Fans can tune in to the nearly 50-year...
Jul 03, 2020