Category Archives: World
8 trapped ducklings rescued from storm drain
STORRS, Conn. - Firefighters have rescued eight ducklings from a storm drain on the University of Connecticut campus. The school says bystanders walking near the chemistry building called the fire dep...
May 06, 2019
Award to drop name of author tied to sterilization movement
BARRE, Vt. - The Vermont Department of Libraries says it is changing the name of a children’s book award that honours a prominent author and activist accused of once being connected to a movemen...
May 06, 2019
And baby makes 3: Prince Harry, Meghan and baby boy
LONDON - Britain’s royal family has its newest member, a baby boy born to Prince Harry and his American wife Meghan, the Duchess of Sussex, nearly one year after their wedding on the grounds of ...
May 06, 2019
Maximum Security out of Preakness; Derby DQ appeal denied
LOUISVILLE, Ky. - Taken down as the Kentucky Derby winner, Maximum Security is now out of the Preakness. Maximum Security’s co-owner said Monday he will not run the horse in the middle jewel of ...
May 06, 2019
Asia stocks mostly higher after Trump trade threat
BEIJING - Asian stock markets rebounded Tuesday after Beijing said trade negotiators were preparing to go to Washington despite President Donald Trump’s threat to escalate their tariff war. Benc...
May 06, 2019
New baby alters line of succession for the British throne
The birth of a royal baby boy to Prince Harry and his wife Meghan, the Duchess of Sussex, has changed the line of succession. The baby’s name has not been released yet but here are the first 10 ...
May 06, 2019
Markets Right Now: New tariff threat spooks stock market
NEW YORK - The latest on developments in financial markets (all times local): 4 p.m. New jitters over the possibility of an escalation in the costly trade war between the U.S. and China pulled stocks ...
May 06, 2019
Springsteen, Scorsese talk Catholicism, films and creativity
LOS ANGELES - With a friendship going back to a fateful meeting at The Roxy in 1975, Bruce Springsteen and Martin Scorsese shared the stage in Los Angeles Sunday night for a wide-ranging conversation ...
May 06, 2019
"Jeopardy!" host Alex Trebek's Emmy Award comes with ovation
LOS ANGELES - Alex Trebek got a standing ovation as he accepted an Emmy Award as host of “Jeopardy!” - and immediately set the audience at ease, even as he alluded to his cancer diagnosis....
May 06, 2019
UN report: Humans accelerating extinction of other species
People are putting nature in more trouble now than at any other time in human history, with extinction looming over 1 million species of plants and animals, scientists said Monday. But it’s not ...
May 06, 2019