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Hundreds missing in Sierra Leone mudslides likely dead

FREETOWN, Sierra Leone – Survivors picking through the debris of Sierra Leone’s deadly mudslides were facing the reality Saturday that most, if not all, of the hundreds of people missing are...

DATE: Aug 19, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Trump to skip Kennedy Center arts awards

BRIDGEWATER, N.J. – In a break with tradition, President Donald Trump and the first lady have decided not to participate in events honoring recipients of this year’s Kennedy Center Honors ar...

DATE: Aug 19, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Prosthetics company helps amputees find better fit

FORT COLLINS, Colo. (AP) – “Two-one-two-two,” Rustin Hughes shouts above blaring music and the sound of fists hitting leather punching bags. He plants his right leg and holds up b...

DATE: Aug 18, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Charlottesville mayor calls for swift removal of Lee statue

RICHMOND, Va. – The mayor of Charlottesville on Friday called for an emergency meeting of state lawmakers to confirm the city’s right to remove a statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee, a ...

DATE: Aug 18, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Trump studying options for new approach to Afghan war

WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump is “studying and considering his options” for a new approach to Afghanistan and the broader South Asia region, the White House said Friday after the presi...

DATE: Aug 18, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Sierra Leone death toll now up to 450 after mudslides

FREETOWN, Sierra Leone – Rescue officials in Sierra Leone warned Friday that the chances of finding survivors in the debris of this week’s mudslides “are getting smaller every day,” as berea...

DATE: Aug 18, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Strategist Steve Bannon leaves Trump’s turbulent White House

WASHINGTON – Steve Bannon, a forceful but divisive presence in President Donald Trump’s White House, is leaving. Trump accepted Bannon’s resignation on Friday, ending a turbulent ...

DATE: Aug 18, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Two dead, six injured in stabbing in Finland, police say

BERLIN – Two people were killed and six others injured in a stabbing on Friday in a city in southwest Finland, police said. The attack unfolded in Turku, about 100 miles west of H...

DATE: Aug 18, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

White House strategist Steve Bannon is out

BRIDGEWATER, N.J. (AP) – The Latest on reaction to President Donald Trump, the terrorist attack in Barcelona and the Charlottesville violence (all times local): 1:00 p.m. ...

DATE: Aug 18, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Trump decries monument removals, ‘history ripped apart’

WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump bitingly decried the rising movement to pull down monuments to Confederate icons Thursday, declaring the nation is seeing “the history and culture of our ...

DATE: Aug 17, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Tech companies banishing extremists after Charlottesville

NEW YORK – It took bloodshed in Charlottesville to get tech companies to do what civil rights groups have been calling for for years: take a firmer stand against accounts used to promote hat...

DATE: Aug 17, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Barcelona van attack kills 13 in agonizing repeat for Europe

BARCELONA, Spain – A van veered onto a promenade Thursday and barreled down the busy walkway in central Barcelona, swerving back and forth as it mowed pedestrians down and turned a picturesq...

DATE: Aug 17, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

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