Category Archives: World

Grounded jet sends Boeing to first annual loss in 2 decades
Boeing, an icon of American manufacturing, suffered its first annual financial loss in more than two decades while the cost of fixing its marquee aircraft after two deadly crashes soared to more than ...
Jan 29, 2020

Countries evaluate evacuation of citizens in virus epicenter
TOKYO - Countries with citizens in the central Chinese city that's the epicenter of a viral outbreak are planning evacuations as the number of illnesses grow and China takes drastic measures to try to...
Jan 29, 2020

2 arrested in SC bar shooting that killed 2 and wounded 4
HARTSVILLE, S.C. - Police have arrested two suspects in a weekend shooting that killed two people and wounded several others at a South Carolina bar, authorities said. The suspects were taken into cus...
Jan 29, 2020

Amid impeachment and Iowa, 2020 top tier jilts New Hampshire
MANCHESTER, N.H. - New Hampshire isn't used to being neglected. The most prominent candidates in the 2020 presidential race spent months last year making their case to New Hampshire voters, but many o...
Jan 29, 2020

China virus outbreak rams global tourism, costing billions
Businesses around the world that have grown increasingly reliant on big-spending tourists from China are taking a heavy hit, with tens of millions of Chinese residents restricted from leaving their co...
Jan 29, 2020

At Sundance, Clinton warns of voter suppression in election
PARK CITY, Utah - Since losing the 2016 election to Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton has released a memoir about that defeat, launched a political action committee and penned another book about "gutsy wo...
Jan 29, 2020

Fed leaves key rate alone but sees virus among global risks
WASHINGTON - The Federal Reserve kept its key interest rate unchanged at a low level Wednesday amid an economy that looks solid but faces potential global threats, including from China's viral outbrea...
Jan 29, 2020

Rapper Fetty Wap likely to see charges tossed in Vegas fight
LAS VEGAS - A judge has agreed to dismiss charges against Fetty Wap stemming from a fight last year at a Las Vegas hotel if the rapper stays out of trouble. An attorney for Fetty Wap, whose real name ...
Jan 29, 2020

Ex-prosecutor: Bryant would have been convicted in Colorado
DENVER - The prosecutor who pursued sexual assault charges against Kobe Bryant 17 years ago believes he would have won a conviction if the case had gone to trial and that the woman who accused Bryant ...
Jan 29, 2020

Fed leaves key rate unchanged at low level amid global risks
WASHINGTON - The Federal Reserve kept its benchmark interest rate unchanged at a low level Wednesday amid an economy that looks solid but faces potential global threats. The Fed sketched a mostly posi...
Jan 29, 2020