Category Archives: World
Vilsack leaving USDA early, no Trump replacement named
WASHINGTON - Secretary Tom Vilsack left the Agriculture Department a week before his tenure ends and before President-elect Donald Trump has chosen his replacement. Vilsack, who has led USDA for eight...
Jan 13, 2017
'Exorcist' author William Peter Blatty dead at 89
NEW YORK - Novelist and filmmaker William Peter Blatty, a former Jesuit school valedictorian who conjured a tale of demonic possession and gave millions the fright of their lives with the bestselling ...
Jan 13, 2017
Real-life Perry Mason pleads guilty to $110K jewelry theft
NEWPORT, Vt. - This Perry Mason has pleaded guilty and been convicted. Perry Mason of Hardwick, Vermont - not to be confused with the fictional television criminal defence lawyer played by Raymond Bur...
Jan 13, 2017
Top Trump aide in frequent contact with Russia's ambassador
WASHINGTON - President-elect Donald Trump’s national security adviser and Russia’s ambassador to the U.S. have been in frequent contact in recent weeks, including on the day the Obama admi...
Jan 13, 2017
Paralyzed detective who forgave shooter eulogized as hero
NEW YORK - Steven McDonald, a police officer best known for forgiving a teenage gunman who left him paralyzed in 1986, inspired New York City by choosing a spiritual journey over self-pity and spite, ...
Jan 13, 2017
Ohio seeks drug reversing lethal injection process if needed
COLUMBUS, Ohio - Ohio’s prisons agency is trying to obtain a drug that could reverse the lethal injection process if needed by stopping the effects of another drug previously used in problematic...
Jan 13, 2017
In early GOP win on health care repeal, Congress OKs budget
WASHINGTON - Ascendant Republicans drove a budget through Congress on Friday that gives them an early but critical victory in their crusade to scrap President Barack Obama’s health care overhaul...
Jan 13, 2017
Kerry defends trade pact on last trip as top US diplomat
HO CHI MINH CITY, Vietnam - Secretary of State John Kerry, making his last trip as the top U.S. diplomat, defended the 12-nation trade pact that the incoming administration said it would scrap and urg...
Jan 13, 2017
Definitions of 'comfort women' reveal Japan-S. Korea divide
TOKYO - “Comfort women,” used by the Japanese military for sex, were present wherever the army invaded and occupied Asia countries from the early 1930s through the end of World War II. Tha...
Jan 13, 2017
Bush daughters welcome Obama's as 'former First Children'
WASHINGTON - Former President George W. Bush’s daughters, Jenna Bush Hager and Barbara Bush, have penned a letter of advice to President Barack Obama’s daughters days before the Obama fami...
Jan 13, 2017