Category Archives: World
Trump gives a partisan prime-time address insisting the economy is stronger than many voters feel
WASHINGTON (AP) - President Donald Trump delivered a politically charged speech Wednesday carried live in prime time on network television, seeking to pin the blame for economic challenges on Democrat...
Dec 17, 2025
Pulitzer Prize-winning correspondent Peter Arnett, who reported from Vietnam and Gulf War, has died
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Peter Arnett, the Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter who spent decades dodging bullets and bombs to bring the world eyewitness accounts of war from the rice paddies of Vietnam to the d...
Dec 17, 2025
US government admits negligence in helicopter-plane collision that killed 67 in Washington
WASHINGTON (AP) - The U.S. government admitted Wednesday that the Federal Aviation Administration and the Army played a role in causing the collision last January between an airliner and a Black Hawk ...
Dec 17, 2025
FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino says he plans to resign next month as bureau's No 2 official
WASHINGTON (AP) - FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino said Wednesday that he will resign from the bureau next month, ending a brief and tumultuous tenure in which he clashed with the Justice Department ov...
Dec 17, 2025
Investigators seek older video that might show the Brown campus shooter days before the attack
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) - Authorities searching for a shooter who attacked students Saturday at Brown University are asking for tips from people who might have video of the shooter potentially casing th...
Dec 17, 2025
Senate passes $901 billion defense bill that pushes Hegseth for boat strike video
WASHINGTON (AP) - The Senate gave final passage on Wednesday to an annual military policy bill that will authorize $901 billion in defense programs while pressuring Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth to p...
Dec 17, 2025
Republicans defy Speaker Johnson to force House vote on extending ACA subsidies
WASHINGTON (AP) - Four centrist Republicans broke with Speaker Mike Johnson on Wednesday and signed onto a Democratic-led petition that will force a House vote on extending for three years an enhanced...
Dec 17, 2025
Louvre workers vote to extend a strike as the museum partially reopens
PARIS (AP) - Employees at the Louvre Museum voted to extend a strike that has disrupted operations at the world's most visited museum, though the attraction partially opened Wednesday to allow visitor...
Dec 17, 2025
Accused gunman in Bondi Beach shooting charged with 15 counts of murder
SYDNEY (AP) - An accused gunman in Sydney's Bondi Beach massacre was charged with 59 offenses including 15 charges of murder on Wednesday, as hundreds of mourners gathered in Sydney to begin funerals ...
Dec 16, 2025
FIFA slashes price of some World Cup tickets to $60 after global fan backlash
GENEVA (AP-CP) - FIFA slashed the price of some World Cup tickets for teams' most loyal fans following a global backlash and some will get US$60 seats for the final instead of being asked to pay $4,18...
Dec 16, 2025