LONDON (AP) - Britain’s delayed and disputed Brexit bill became law on Thursday, removing the last U.K. obstacle to the country leaving the European Union in just over a week. The U.K. is finally leaving the 28-nation bloc more than…
Posted: 23 January 2020 [07:15 PM] Posted: 23 January 2020 [07:14 PM] BEIJING (AP) - Chinese authorities Thursday moved to lock down at least three cities with a combined population of more than 18 million in an unprecedented effort to contain the deadly new virus that has sickened hundreds of people and…
Posted: 23 January 2020 [07:13 PM] WASHINGTON (AP) - House Democrats pressed into the second day of arguments in President Donald Trump’s impeachment case focused intently on the charge of abuse of power, which top prosecutor Adam Schiff said would leave senators with no choice but…
Posted: 23 January 2020 [07:13 PM] NEW YORK (AP) - “Sopranos” actress Annabella Sciorra confronted Harvey Weinstein from the witness stand Thursday, telling a jury in a quivering voice that the burly Hollywood studio boss barged into her apartment in the mid-1990s, overpowered her and raped…
Posted: 22 January 2020 [09:04 PM] WASHINGTON (AP) - President Donald Trump on Wednesday minimized the severity of head injuries sustained by U.S. troops during an Iranian missile strike on an Iraqi air base as he was pressed on why he had claimed no troops were…
Posted: 22 January 2020 [09:02 PM] WASHINGTON (AP) - House Democrats opened arguments in President Donald Trump’s impeachment trial Wednesday, appealing to skeptical Republican senators to join them in voting to remove Trump from office to “protect our democracy.” Trump’s lawyers sat by, waiting their turn,…
Posted: 22 January 2020 [08:59 PM] NEW YORK (AP) - Harvey Weinstein went on trial Wednesday in a landmark moment for the # MeToo movement, with prosecutors painting him as a sexual predator who used his movie-magnate stature to abuse women for decades, while his lawyers…
Posted: 21 January 2020 [08:40 PM] JACKSON, Miss. (AP) - Two inmates were killed Monday night at an understaffed Mississippi prison that has been shaken by other deadly violence in recent weeks. The state Department of Corrections confirmed the deaths Tuesday but did not immediately release…
Posted: 21 January 2020 [08:38 PM] CIUDAD HIDALGO, Mexico (AP) - Hundreds of Central American migrants who waded across a river into Mexico in hopes of eventually reaching the U.S. were sent back to their homeland or retreated across the border Tuesday after Mexican troops blocked…
Posted: 21 January 2020 [08:36 PM] DAVOS, Switzerland (AP) - President Donald Trump said Tuesday that he’s led a “spectacular” turnaround of the U.S. economy and urged the world to invest in America, but had less to say about climate change issues that are a focus…
McConnell backs off, eases impeachment trial limits Posted: 21 January 2020 [06:58 PM] WASHINGTON (AP) - Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell abruptly backed offsome of his proposed rules for President Donald Trump’s impeachment trial on…
Posted: 20 January 2020 [07:58 PM] VATICAN CITY (AP) - Pope Francis on Monday denounced populism, saying it is born of “selfish indifference” and provides fertile terrain for hatred, including anti-Semitism. Francis spoke while meeting with a delegation from the Simon Wiesenthal Center, a human…
Posted: 20 January 2020 [07:56 PM] CIUDAD HIDALGO, Mexico (AP) - Hundreds of Central American migrants waded across the Suchiate River into southern Mexico Monday in a new test of U.S. President Donald Trump’s Central America strategy to keep them away from the U.S. border. The…
Posted: 20 January 2020 [07:53 PM] COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) - Democratic presidential contenders celebrated Martin Luther King Jr.’s legacy at a Baptist church Monday and linked arms with each other and civil rights leaders in a march of tens of thousands to the Statehouse. At Zion…
Posted: 20 January 2020 [07:51 PM] WASHINGTON (AP) - President Donald Trump’s legal team asserted Monday that he did “absolutely nothing wrong,“ urging the Senate to swiftly reject an impeachment case that it called “flimsy” and a “dangerous perversion of the Constitution.” The lawyers decried the…
Posted: 20 January 2020 [07:49 PM] RICHMOND, Va. (AP) - Thousands of gun-rights activists from around the country rallied peacefully at the Virginia Capitol on Monday, protesting plans by the state’s Democratic leadership to pass gun-control legislation that have become a key flash point in the…
Posted: 19 January 2020 [08:28 PM] BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) - Hungary’s Jewish community on Sunday commemorated the 75th anniversary of the liberation by Soviet troops of the Budapest ghetto, where over 70,000 Jews were confined near the end of World War II. While some 550,000…
Posted: 19 January 2020 [08:26 PM] ST. JOHN’S, Newfoundland (AP) - Canada’s federal government was mobilizing the Armed Forces Sunday to help Newfoundland and Labrador dig out from the monster blizzard that paralyzed eastern regions of the province with record-breaking amounts of snow and as forecasts…
Posted: 19 January 2020 [08:24 PM] MANCHESTER, N.H. (AP) - Bernie Sanders made a comparison Sunday between the challenges women face in politics today and his running for president at the age of 78 as the Democratic presidential candidate continues to face questions over his recent…
Posted: 19 January 2020 [08:21 PM] WASHINGTON (AP) - Advocates for and against President Donald Trump gave no ground Sunday on his Senate impeachment trial, digging in on whether a crime is required for his conviction and removal and whether witnesses will be called. But…
Ukraine prime minister resigns, but Zelenskiy asks him to stay on Posted: 17 January 2020 [08:20 PM] KYIV, Ukraine (AP) - Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy rejected his prime minister’s offer to resign and asked him to stay on the…
Alan Dershowitz, Ken Starr join Trump impeachment defense team Posted: 17 January 2020 [08:18 PM] WASHINGTON (AP) - President Donald Trump is adding experience in constitutional law and the politics of impeachment to his legal defense team,…
7 men, 5 women picked for Weinstein jury Posted: 17 January 2020 [08:16 PM] NEW YORK (AP) - A jury of seven men and five women was selected Friday for Harvey Weinstein’s rape trial after an…
Posted: 17 January 2020 [08:14 PM] IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) - Ann Stromquist watched this week’s Democratic presidential debate like the research scientist she is. She studied the candidates’ answers carefully, looking for something to help her make a final decision between supporting Sen. Bernie Sanders…
Posted: 16 January 2020 [07:51 PM] ISLAMABAD (AP) - The Taliban have given the U.S. envoy their offer for a temporary cease-fire in Afghanistan that would last between seven and 10 days, Taliban officials familiar with the negotiations said Thursday. The offer is seen as…
Posted: 16 January 2020 [07:50 PM] MOSCOW (AP) - President Vladimir Putin on Thursday fast-tracked work on constitutional changes that could keep him in power well past the end of his term in 2024 while lawmakers quickly sealed his choice for new prime minister. Speaking to…
Posted: 16 January 2020 [07:48 PM] COLLEGE PARK, Md. (AP) - FBI agents on Thursday arrested a former Canadian Armed Forces reservist and two other men who are linked to a violent white supremacist group and were believed to be heading to a pro-gun rally…
Posted: 16 January 2020 [07:48 PM] NEW YORK (AP) - Harvey Weinstein’s lawyers went to court Thursday with a last-minute demand to halt jury selection and move his rape trial out of New York City, where they say intense media coverage, protesters and even the consideration…
Posted: 15 January 2020 [08:48 PM] MOSCOW (AP) - President Vladimir Putin engineered a surprise shakeup of Russia’s leadership Wednesday, proposing changes to the constitution that could keep him in power well past the end of his term in 2024. Hours after he made the proposals,…
Posted: 15 January 2020 [08:43 PM] WASHINGTON (AP) - The U.S. House voted Wednesday to send two articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump to the Senate and approve House prosecutors for only the third impeachment trial in American history. The nearly party-line vote moved…
Posted: 15 January 2020 [08:40 PM] WASHINGTON (AP) - The decade that just ended was by far the hottest ever measured on Earth, capped off by the second-warmest year on record, two U.S. agencies reported Wednesday. And scientists said they see no end to the way…
Posted: 14 January 2020 [08:32 PM] NEW YORK (AP) - Federal prosecutors announced charges Tuesday against six New York City correctional officers accused of taking thousands of dollars in bribes to smuggle drugs to inmates at the Rikers Island jail complex. Fifteen other people, including…
Posted: 14 January 2020 [08:29 PM] WASHINGTON (AP) - After weeks of delay and strategizing, the U.S. House is planning to vote Wednesday to send the articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump to the Senate to start the trial on removing him from office. Speaker…
Posted: 13 January 2020 [08:40 PM] TAGAYTAY, Philippines (AP) - Red-hot lava spewed from a volcano near the Philippine capital of Manila on Monday as tens of thousands of people fled through heavy ash and frightening tremors, and authorities made plans to evacuate hundreds of thousands…
Posted: 13 January 2020 [08:39 PM] AIN AL-ASAD AIR BASE, Iraq (AP) - American troops were informed of an impending missile barrage hours before their air base in Iraq was struck by Iran, U.S. military officials said Monday, days after the attack that marked a major…
Posted: 13 January 2020 [08:37 PM] DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) - Democrat Cory Booker dropped out of the presidential race Monday, ending a campaign whose message of unity and love failed to resonate in a political era marked by chaos and anxiety. His departure now leaves…
Posted: 13 January 2020 [08:32 PM] DALLAS (AP) - A subtle design feature of the AR-15 rifle has raised a technical legal question that is derailing cases against people who are charged with illegally buying and selling the gun’s parts or building the weapon. At issue…
Posted: 12 January 2020 [08:33 PM] HOUSTON (AP) - Severe storms sweeping across southern portions of the U.S. and up into the Midwest were blamed Saturday in the deaths of at least 11 people, including two first responders, as high winds, tornadoes and unrelenting rain battered…
Posted: 12 January 2020 [08:30 PM] WARSAW, Poland (AP) - The late Gdansk Mayor Pawel Adamowicz was remembered on Sunday evening during the finale of a yearly Polish fundraiser - the same event during which he was fatally stabbed on stage last year. Adamowicz was stabbed…
Posted: 12 January 2020 [08:29 PM] DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) - Iranian demonstrators defied a heavy police presence Sunday night to protest their country’s days of denials that it shot down a Ukrainian passenger plane carrying 176 people, the latest unrest to roil the capital…
Wind whips Australia blazes in multiple directions Posted: 10 January 2020 [07:24 PM] EDEN, Australia (AP) - Thousands of people fled their homes and helicopters dropped supplies to towns at risk of nearby wildfires as…
Harry and Meghan begin their new life an ocean apart Posted: 10 January 2020 [07:21 PM] LONDON (AP) - Prince Harry and his wife Meghan were taking the first steps into their new independent life thousands of miles…
Puerto Ricans living in baseball park Posted: 10 January 2020 [07:19 PM] GUAYANILLA, Puerto Rico (AP) - A new community has popped up in this earthquake-damaged town in southwest Puerto Rico: It houses 300…
Posted: 09 January 2020 [09:00 PM] WASHINGTON (AP) - U.S. officials said Thursday it was “highly likely” that an Iranian anti-aircraft missile downed a Ukrainian jetliner late Tuesday, killing all 176 people on board. They suggested it could well have been a mistake. The crash came…
Posted: 09 January 2020 [08:58 PM] WASHINGTON (AP) - President Donald Trump on Thursday proposed rolling back enforcement of a landmark environmental law, reducing federal oversight of many major projects, from pipelines to commercial development, to speed the approval process. He said the United States cannot…
Posted: 09 January 2020 [08:57 PM] WASHINGTON (AP) - House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Thursday she will “soon’’ transmit the articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump, but warned that Senate Republicans are rushing to acquittal without a fair trial. Pelosi brushed back GOP claims that…
Posted: 08 January 2020 [08:59 PM] SHAHEDSHAHR, Iran (AP) - A Ukrainian airliner carrying 176 people crashed on the outskirts of Tehran during a takeoff attempt Wednesday hours after Iran launched its missile attack on U.S. forces, scattering flaming debris and passengers’ belongings across farmland and…
Posted: 08 January 2020 [08:56 PM] NEW YORK (AP) - Harvey Weinstein’s lawyers asked the judge in his New York City rape case to step aside Wednesday, a day after he threatened to jail the disgraced movie mogul for texting in the courtroom. Weinstein’s lawyers sent…
Posted: 07 January 2020 [08:16 PM] BALMORAL, Australia (AP) - Bolstered by cooler weather and desperately needed rain, exhausted firefighters in Australia raced to shore up defenses against deadly wildfires before the blazes flare again within days when scorching temperatures are expected to return. The first…
Posted: 07 January 2020 [08:15 PM] TEHRAN, Iran (AP) - A stampede broke out Tuesday at the funeral for a top Iranian general slain in a U.S. airstrike, and at least 56 people were killed and more than 200 were injured as thousands thronged the procession,…
