Category Archives: World
Cities, counties plan immigrant legal aid after Trump's win
CHICAGO - Major U.S. cities and counties are beefing up legal services for immigrants to help them fight deportation and avoid fraudulent lawyers in the wake of Donald Trump’s election and his h...
Dec 19, 2016
Ancient skeleton to return to Native Americans for reburial
SPOKANE, Wash. - The Ancient One is going home. One of the oldest and most complete skeletons found in North America will be given back to American Indian tribes in Washington state for reburial. Pres...
Dec 19, 2016
Israeli police arrest tycoon suspected of bribery in Guinea
JERUSALEM - Israeli police on Monday arrested billionaire businessman Beny Steinmetz on suspicion of bribing officials in the west African country of Guinea, police said, in what appeared to be a majo...
Dec 19, 2016
'Super Mario Run': Price, connectivity missteps for Nintendo
NEW YORK - Super Mario might be running, but a hefty price tag for a mobile game just won’t fly with the masses. The world so far is underwhelmed by “Super Mario Run,” which Nintendo...
Dec 19, 2016
4 companies chosen to pursue nuclear waste burial test
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. - Four companies will pursue the possibility of conducting a test to determine whether nuclear waste can be buried far underground, federal energy officials announced Monday, months ...
Dec 19, 2016
Adam West to sell Batman-themed paintings he's created
KETCHUM, Idaho - The actor who portrayed the tights-clad Batman in the 1960s TV series is selling paintings he has created of villains from the show at an art gallery in the central Idaho resort town ...
Dec 19, 2016
US FDA clears ovarian cancer drug for hard-to-treat disease
WASHINGTON - U.S. health officials have approved a new option for some women battling ovarian cancer: a drug that targets a genetic mutation seen in a subset of hard-to-treat tumors. The Food and Drug...
Dec 19, 2016
Report: DEA records show W. Va. flooded with painkillers
CHARLESTON, W.Va. - Drug wholesalers shipped 780 million hydrocodone and oxycodone pills to West Virginia in just six years, a period when 1,728 people fatally overdosed on these two painkillers, acco...
Dec 19, 2016
Witness to an assassination: AP photographer captures attack
ANKARA, Turkey - The event seemed routine, the opening of an exhibit of photographs of Russia. So when a man in a dark suit and tie pulled out a gun, I was stunned and thought it was a theatrical flou...
Dec 19, 2016
Officials: Native dreamcatchers used in meth smuggling bid
COLUMBUS, N.M. - A Mexican woman tried to smuggle liquid methamphetamine into the U.S. by hiding it inside Native American-style dreamcatchers when she crossed the border into New Mexico over the week...
Dec 19, 2016