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La Scala board to decide on controversial Saudi funding
MILAN - The directors of Italy's premier opera house, Teatro alla Scala in Milan, are meeting to decide whether to accept controversial funding from Saudi Arabia. The meeting Monday came amid media re...
Mar 18, 2019
Defiant vigil starts healing in New Zealand after massacre
CHRISTCHURCH, New Zealand - They came together as one, more than 1,000 students from rival Christchurch schools and different religions, joining voices to honour the 50 lives lost in a massacre that h...
Mar 18, 2019
UK prime minister in last-minute push to win Brexit support
LONDON - British Prime Minister Theresa May was making a last-minute push Monday to win support for her European Union divorce deal, warning opponents that failure to approve it would mean a long - an...
Mar 18, 2019
AP FACT CHECK: Trump plays down white nationalist threat
WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump appears to be oblivious to the threat of white nationalism. Following a deadly mosque shooting in New Zealand, he said white supremacy isn't a rising danger. But da...
Mar 18, 2019
R. Kelly case spotlights abuse of girls in the era of #MeToo
NEW YORK - The girls, a dozen of them 15 to 18 years old, file into a conference room in a downtown Brooklyn office building, taking seats in chairs carefully arranged in a circle. On the floor in fro...
Mar 18, 2019
Japan to make crater on asteroid to get underground samples
TOKYO - Japan's space agency said Monday that its Hayabusa2 spacecraft will follow up last month's touchdown on a distant asteroid with another risky mission - dropping an explosive on the asteroid to...
Mar 18, 2019
Facebook announces changes to political advertising to meet new federal rules
OTTAWA - Facebook is launching a new advertisement library that will capture detailed information about political ads targeted at voters in Canada, including who pays for them and whom they targe...
Mar 18, 2019
'Play until you can't:' Bronco focuses on sledge hockey instead of anniversary
OKOTOKS, Alta. - At the end of a long and difficult year, Ryan Straschnitzki is on the ice and his hockey dream is intact. Straschnitzki and his Humboldt Broncos teammates were on their way to a ...
Mar 18, 2019
Prime minister to shuffle cabinet for third time in recent months
OTTAWA - Justin Trudeau will shuffle the federal cabinet today for the third time in recent months. This latest adjustment comes after the prime minister moved Jody Wilson-Raybould...
Mar 18, 2019
Australian premier sides with egger against egged senator
CANBERRA, Australia - Australia's prime minister on Sunday suggested an anti-Muslim senator should be charged after he slapped a teen who cracked a raw egg over the legislator's head. Sen. Fraser Anni...
Mar 18, 2019
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