Category Archives: World
Rocket launch reignites space station deliveries in Virginia
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - One of NASA’s main delivery companies made a triumphant comeback seen up and down the East Coast on Monday night, launching its first space station shipment from Virginia ...
Oct 17, 2016
Judge won't make official OK contracts with LGBT language
BATON ROUGE, La. - A judge has thrown out the Louisiana governor’s lawsuit seeking to force the state attorney general to sign off on legal contracts that include anti-discrimination language to...
Oct 17, 2016
NBC News fires Billy Bush after lewd Donald Trump tape airs
NEW YORK - NBC News on Monday fired “Today” show host Billy Bush, who was caught on tape in a vulgar conversation about women with Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump before an &#...
Oct 17, 2016
Mosul operation to test UN humanitarian efforts
The military operation to wrest Mosul from the Islamic State group could potentially become the single largest, most complex humanitarian operation in the world in 2016, a U.N. official said Monday. S...
Oct 17, 2016
Virginia man pleads guilty to trying to help Islamic State
ALEXANDRIA, Va. - A northern Virginia man pleaded guilty Monday to trying to help the Islamic State group after a sting operation caught him buying gift cards and filming potential landmarks in the D....
Oct 17, 2016
Former general pleads guilty in false statements probe
WASHINGTON - A former vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff pleaded guilty Monday to making false statements during an investigation into a leak of classified information about a covert cyberatta...
Oct 17, 2016
UN continues to support DiCaprio's work on climate change
A U.N. spokesman has expressed continued support for Leonardo DiCaprio’s work as a “Messenger for Peace” for climate change despite an environmental group’s demand that he resi...
Oct 17, 2016
Why tomatoes lose flavour in fridge: their genes chill out
NEW YORK - If you buy tomatoes from John Banscher at his farmstand in New Jersey, he’ll recommend keeping them out of the fridge or they’ll lose some of their taste. Now scientists have fi...
Oct 17, 2016
Judge drops charge against 'Democracy Now' reporter
MANDAN, N.D. - “Democracy Now!” reporter Amy Goodman won’t face a riot charge stemming from her coverage of a protest against construction of the Dakota Access oil pipeline in North ...
Oct 17, 2016
Melania Trump does not believe husband's accusers
NEW YORK - Melania Trump on Monday dismissed her husband’s sexually aggressive language as “boy talk,” insisting his remarks do not reflect “the man I know,” and said she...
Oct 17, 2016