Category Archives: World

Schools close as US East braces for ‘long, difficult storm’
NEW YORK - A storm that already snarled Thanksgiving travel across much of the country threatened to dump a foot and a half of snow on parts of the East, leading governments to close schools and offic...
Dec 02, 2019

Democrat Steve Bullock ends struggling presidential campaign
HELENA, Mont. - Montana Gov. Steve Bullock announced Monday that he's ending his Democratic presidential campaign, saying it's become clear that he won't have a shot at being his party's nominee. The ...
Dec 02, 2019

Ballroom dancers say immigration clampdown hurting business
ORANGE, Conn. - Ballroom dance studio owners say the tightening of federal immigration rules is making it harder for them to offer foxtrot and tango lessons. Many owners say there aren't enough qualif...
Dec 01, 2019

Loughlin’s daughter returns to her popular YouTube channel
LOS ANGELES - Social media star Olivia Jade Giannulli has posted her first YouTube video since the arrest of her parents, actress Lori Loughlin and fashion designer Mossimo Giannulli, put her at the c...
Dec 01, 2019

The Latest: London Bridge incident declared ‘terrorist’
LONDON - The Latest on an incident in London Bridge (all times local): 4:30 p.m. Police say the stabbings and shooting at London Bridge has been declared a "terrorist incident" and that a man was shot...
Dec 01, 2019

Authorities: 9 killed, 3 injured in South Dakota plane crash
CHAMBERLAIN, S.D. - Nine people died and three more were injured when a single-engine plane bound for Idaho crashed shortly after takeoff in South Dakota. Peter Knudson with the National Transportatio...
Dec 01, 2019

Japan’s ex-Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone dead at 101
TOKYO - Former Japanese Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone, a giant of his country's post-World War II politics who pushed for a more assertive Japan while strengthening military ties with the United St...
Nov 30, 2019

Trump thanks troops in Afghanistan, says Taliban want a deal
BAGRAM AIR FIELD, Afghanistan - President Donald Trump paid a surprise Thanksgiving visit to Afghanistan, where he announced the U.S. and the Taliban have been engaged in ongoing peace talks and said ...
Nov 30, 2019

Evacuation order lifted as huge Texas plant fire ‘contained’
AUSTIN, Texas - Officials lifted evacuation orders Friday for around 50,000 people on the Texas Gulf Coast, determining a massive fire was finally under control at a chemical plant rocked by two major...
Nov 30, 2019

London police shoot suspect dead after ‘terrorist’ stabbings
LONDON - A man wearing a fake explosive vest stabbed several people in what police are treating as a terrorist attack Friday before being tackled by members of the public and then fatally shot by offi...
Nov 30, 2019