Category Archives: World
Mistrial declared in black motorist's shooting by officer
CHARLESTON, S.C. - A South Carolina judge declared a mistrial Monday after a jury deadlocked in the murder trial of a white former police officer charged in the shooting death of an unarmed black moto...
Dec 05, 2016
Dylann Roof allowed to hire lawyers back, for now
CHARLESTON, S.C. - A federal judge agreed Monday to let a white man accused of fatally shooting nine black parishioners rehire his attorneys until a verdict is reached, but to remain his own lawyer if...
Dec 05, 2016
Indian actress-turned-politician Jayaram Jayalalithaa dies
CHENNAI, India - Jayaram Jayalalithaa, the hugely popular south Indian actress who later turned to politics and became the highest elected official in the state of Tamil Nadu, has died. She was 68. Sh...
Dec 05, 2016
Man convicted in son's hot-car death gets life, no parole
MARIETTA, Ga. - A judge on Monday sentenced a Georgia man to serve life in prison without the possibility of parole after a jury found that he intentionally left his toddler son in a hot SUV to die. J...
Dec 05, 2016
Amazon Go store is checkout free
NEW YORK - Amazon is testing a grocery store model in Seattle that works without checkout lines. Called Amazon Go, shoppers scan their Amazon app when they enter the store, and then sensors register i...
Dec 05, 2016
In bid to fight art fraud, Sotheby's acquires forensic lab
NEW YORK - In bid to fight art fraud, Sotheby’s announced Monday that it had purchased a forensics firm whose founder once helped the auction house belatedly identify a $10 million painting as a...
Dec 05, 2016
Jimmy Kimmel to host Academy Awards
NEW YORK - The Oscars finally have a host: Jimmy Kimmel will emcee the 89th Academy Awards. Kimmel will be hosting the show for the first time, the Academy of Motion Pictures said Monday. In September...
Dec 05, 2016
HUD nominee opposes programs that aided rise from poverty
WASHINGTON - Though Ben Carson frequently touts his up-from-the-bootstraps life story, Donald Trump’s nominee for secretary of Housing and Urban Development has voiced little empathy for those w...
Dec 05, 2016
North Carolina Gov. McCrory concedes he lost re-election bid
DURHAM, N.C. - North Carolina Gov. Pat McCrory conceded the governor’s race Monday, clearing the way for Democrat Roy Cooper to be declared the winner nearly four weeks after Election Day. The w...
Dec 05, 2016
Stocks track higher after Wall Street hit another record
HONG KONG - Stock markets pushed higher on Tuesday as investors cheered another record day on Wall Street and looked past the political and economic uncertainty buffeting Europe. KEEPING SCORE: France...
Dec 05, 2016