US, China Put Brakes on Trade Dispute with Cease-Fire
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — The United States and China reached a 90-day cease-fire in a trade dispute that has rattled financial markets and threatened world economic growth. The breakthrough came after a dinner meeting between President Donald Trump and Chinese leader Xi Jinping at the Group of 20 summit in Buenos Aires.Trump agreed to…
Read More
Life is Slowly Settling Down in Alaska After Major Quake
ANCHORAGE, AK (AP) — Life is slowly settling down in Alaska following a powerful earthquake that rattled buildings, disrupted power and caused heavy damage to the only highway that goes north of Anchorage. Still, hundreds of aftershocks frayed nerves Saturday as people worried about being caught in more massive shakers. "They're disturbing, and I'm not…
Read More
Former President George H.W. Bush Dies at Age 94
HOUSTON, TX (AP) — George H.W. Bush, a patrician New Englander whose presidency soared with the coalition victory over Iraq in Kuwait, but then plummeted in the throes of a weak economy that led voters to turn him out of office after a single term, has died. He was 94. The World War II hero,…
Read More
Attorney’s Plea Caused By Trump’s Dream Of A Moscow Tower
By STEPHEN BRAUN and BERNARD CONDON , Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Donald Trump for decades dreamed of building a Trump Tower in the heart of Moscow, a plan that flared and fizzled several times over the years, most recently when his presidential campaign was gaining momentum. That last plan led Trump's longtime lawyer Michael Cohen…
Read More
Congo’s Ebola Outbreak Now 2nd Largest In History, WHO Says
By CARA ANNA , Associated Press JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Congo's deadly Ebola outbreak is now the second largest in history, behind the devastating West Africa outbreak that killed thousands a few years ago, the World Health Organization said Thursday. WHO emergencies chief Dr. Peter Salama called it "a sad toll" as Congo's health ministry announced…
Read More