Category Archives: World

WeWork CEO stepping aside amid questions about company
WeWork's charismatic but controversial CEO is stepping aside from the communal office-space company he founded, another moment of reckoning between the fast-growing startup and its disenchanted invest...
Sep 24, 2019

Investigator says FAA training inspectors weren't qualified
Federal investigators say some safety inspectors who helped set pilot-training standards for the Boeing 737 Max were unqualified and the Federal Aviation Administration seemed to mislead Congress abou...
Sep 24, 2019

Bill Cosby hit with $2.75M legal bill after losing dispute
PHILADELPHIA - Bill Cosby has been hit with a $2.75 million legal bill as he marks the end of his first year in prison. The 82-year-old Cosby had challenged a California arbitration award that upheld ...
Sep 24, 2019

Domingo withdraws from Met Opera after harassment reports
NEW YORK - The Metropolitan Opera announced Tuesday that Placido Domingo had agreed to withdraw from his slate of scheduled performances at the opera house following allegations of sexual harassment m...
Sep 24, 2019

ABC's Muir hits five-year mark at 'World News' on the top
NEW YORK - David Muir is celebrating his fifth anniversary as "World News Tonight" anchor with something that's rare in television: a larger audience. The ABC newscast finished its year-long season la...
Sep 24, 2019

Forced sell-off of 'Codfather' assets begins
A father-and-son team from Massachusetts and other buyers are acquiring scallop fishing boats owned by a disgraced fishing magnate nicknamed the Codfather. The sale of Carlos Rafael's 11 scallop boats...
Sep 24, 2019

Trump administration to triple democracy aid to Venezuela
NEW YORK - The Trump administration is more than tripling U.S. support for pro-democracy work in Venezuela and for the first time directly funding opposition leader Juan Guaid as he attempts to set up...
Sep 24, 2019

Modi is India's prime minister, but to Trump he's the 'king'
Narendra Modi may be prime minister of India. But to Donald Trump, Modi is "the King." Trump on Tuesday compared Modi to Elvis Presley, the late American singer often referred to as the king of rock a...
Sep 24, 2019

Pelosi expected to announce impeachment probe into Trump
WASHINGTON - House Speaker Nancy Pelosi plans to announce a formal impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump on Tuesday, acquiescing to mounting pressure from Democratic lawmakers following repo...
Sep 24, 2019

California halts prison gang peacemaking effort
SACRAMENTO, Calif. - California prison officials have halted an experiment aimed at forcing warring prison gangs to get along with each other after the inmates wound up brawling and even rioting when ...
Sep 24, 2019