World

Texas officer shoots and kills woman after stun-gun struggle

BAYTOWN, Texas - A police officer shot and killed a woman at a Houston-area apartment complex after she hit him with his Taser during a struggle, shocking him, police said. In a video recorded by a wi...

May 16, 2019

Haechan meets Haechan: K-pop star honoured with zoo namesake

LOS ANGELES - Fans of the K-pop group NCT 127 donated money in January to name a baby pudu at the Los Angeles Zoo after one of its members, Haechan (HECH'-ehn). This week, the human Haechan got to mee...

May 16, 2019

DeSantis: Russians accessed 2 Florida voting databases

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. - Russian hackers gained access to voter databases in two Florida counties ahead of the 2016 presidential election, Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis said at a news conference Tuesday. De...

May 16, 2019

Comedian Tim Conway of 'The Carol Burnett Show' dies at 85

LOS ANGELES - Tim Conway, the impish second banana to Carol Burnett who won four Emmy Awards on her TV variety show, starred aboard "McHale's Navy" and later voiced the role of Barnacle Boy for "Spong...

May 16, 2019

Facebook busts Israel-based campaign to disrupt elections

JERUSALEM - Facebook said Thursday it banned an Israeli company that ran an influence campaign aimed at disrupting elections in various countries and has cancelled dozens of accounts engaged in spread...

May 16, 2019

NTSB: Autopilot was in use before Tesla hit semitrailer

DETROIT - A Tesla Model S involved in a fatal crash with a semitrailer in Florida March 1 was operating on the company's semi-autonomous Autopilot system, federal investigators have determined. The ca...

May 16, 2019

Carnival worker accused of killing 2 missing women, teen

Two missing women and a missing teenage girl were shot to death by a carnival worker who met them through the travelling show, authorities in Virginia say. James Michael Wright, 23, is accused of kill...

May 16, 2019

Firefighter killed, 3 injured at Wisconsin transit station

APPLETON, Wis. - A firefighter responding to a medical emergency was killed in a shooting at a Wisconsin bus station that left three others injured, officials said. The shooting happened after police ...

May 16, 2019

Tilda Swinton relishes her samurai turn in 'Dead Don't Die'

CANNES, France - Tilda Swinton feels most at home at the Berlin Film Festival, but she's steadily become a regular at the Cannes Film Festival. "I'm racking them up," she says cheerfully the day after...

May 16, 2019

Feds 'deeply concerned' by China's arrests of Canadians Kovrig, Spavor

OTTAWA - Public Safety Minister Ralph Goodale says the government is "deeply concerned" about China's decision to formally arrest two Canadians citizens it has been holding since December. Goodale say...

May 16, 2019