Category Archives: World

Google digitizes artworks in Puerto Rico for 1st time
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico - The 1953 painting by Rafael Tufio Figueroa features his mother with a red scarf on her head, a determined look on her face and heavy expression lines, a depiction of a working-...
Nov 09, 2019

Gap CEO Art Peck steps down amid slumping sales, stock price
NEW YORK - Gap announced Thursday that CEO Art Peck is stepping down as the company struggles to turn around a long-standing sales slump. The San Francisco-based retailer also lowered its earnings out...
Nov 09, 2019

Woody Allen and Amazon end legal battle
NEW YORK - Woody Allen and Amazon.com have ended their legal battle. The filmmaker had sued Amazon in February after the online giant ended his 2017 contract without ever releasing a completed film, "...
Nov 09, 2019

Interior proposes coveted deal to ex-client of agency head
WASHINGTON - The Interior Department is proposing to award one of the first contracts for federal water in perpetuity to a powerful rural California water district that had long employed Secretary Dav...
Nov 09, 2019

Manafort's former son-in-law sentenced for multiple scams
LOS ANGELES - The former son-in-law of Paul Manafort has been sentenced in Los Angeles to nine years in prison for a series of schemes, including one that bilked $3 million from actor Dustin Hoffman. ...
Nov 09, 2019

Bloomberg opens door to 2020 Democratic run for president
WASHINGTON - Michael Bloomberg, the billionaire former mayor of New York City, is opening the door to a 2020 Democratic presidential campaign, warning that the current field of candidates is ill equip...
Nov 09, 2019

Judge fines Trump $2 million for misusing charity foundation
NEW YORK - A judge Thursday ordered President Donald Trump to pay $2 million to an array of charities as a fine for misusing his own charitable foundation to further his political and business interes...
Nov 09, 2019

Secret Service study: School attackers showed warning signs
WASHINGTON - Most students who committed deadly school attacks over the past decade were badly bullied, had a history of disciplinary trouble and their behaviour concerned others but was never reporte...
Nov 09, 2019

AP Exclusive: Steyer aide offered money for endorsements
DES MOINES, Iowa - A top aide to Democratic presidential candidate Tom Steyer in Iowa privately offered campaign contributions to local politicians in exchange for endorsing his White House bid, accor...
Nov 09, 2019

Film probes history of Native Americans in the US military
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - A new PBS film, "The Warrior Tradition," seeks to examine the history of Native Americans in the U.S. military since World War I. Through interviews with veterans, the documentary ...
Nov 09, 2019