Category Archives: World
Michigan straight-party voting ban won't take effect
LANSING, Mich. - The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday declined to let Michigan’s new ban on straight-party voting take effect for the November election, rejecting state officials’ request to h...
Sep 09, 2016
Nissan recalls 120K vehicles; fluid leaks can cause fires
DETROIT - Nissan is recalling over 120,000 cars and SUVs in the U.S. because brake fluid could leak and cause fires. In some cases owners should park their vehicles outside until they are fixed. The r...
Sep 09, 2016

Correction: Norway-Facebook-Napalm Girl story
COPENHAGEN - In a Sept. 9 story about Facebook allowing postings of a 1972 photo of a naked, screaming girl after a napalm attack in Vietnam, The Associated Press reported erroneously that the social ...
Sep 09, 2016

MasterCard faces $18.6 billion UK lawsuit over fees
LONDON - MasterCard is being sued for 14 billion pounds ($18.6 billion) on behalf of British consumers for allegedly charging excessive fees on millions of transactions over a 16-year period. The suit...
Sep 09, 2016
Prosecutor: Failed Paris car bomb plotted by IS-guided women
PARIS - A failed car bombing in the heart of Paris was hatched by a group of French women, including one once engaged to men who had already killed in the name of the Islamic State group, France’...
Sep 09, 2016

Passenger train derails in Spain, killing 4 and injuring 48
LISBON, Portugal - A passenger train derailed Friday in Spain’s northwestern Galicia region, killing at least four people, including an American tourist, and injuring 48 others who were taken to...
Sep 09, 2016

Forum puts focus on how Clinton is judged compared to Trump
WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. - For months, Hillary Clinton’s supporters have griped that she’s held to a higher, harder standard than Donald Trump. After Wednesday night’s forum on national se...
Sep 09, 2016
Tourists rescued after overnight Mont Blanc cable car ordeal
CHAMONIX, France - Dozens of tourists, including three children, were rescued Friday after being trapped overnight in cable cars dangling above the slopes of Mont Blanc in the Alps. Their return to la...
Sep 09, 2016
Get your ballots ready: Voting in White House race underway
WASHINGTON - Get ready: Voting in the 2016 election is now underway. Advance voting begins Friday in North Carolina, the first of 37 states that will allow balloting by mail for any reason or in perso...
Sep 09, 2016

House conservatives serve notice to Ryan - and Clinton
WASHINGTON - Since returning from their summer recess, House conservatives have wasted no time showing just how tough they can make life for Speaker Paul Ryan - and for Democrat Hillary Clinton, if sh...
Sep 09, 2016