Category Archives: Canadian Press
Still Anonymous: White House hunt for op-ed author fades
WASHINGTON - Remember Anonymous? One month ago Friday, an unidentified Trump administration official set off a White House firestorm by claiming in a New York Times opinion piece to be part of a secre...
Oct 05, 2018
Sheriff: Man ambushed officers coming to question adult son
The decorated 74-year-old Vietnam War veteran accused of shooting seven South Carolina law enforcement officers had set an ambush for investigators coming to question his adult son about a child sexua...
Oct 05, 2018
Immigrants cheer ruling that lets them keep protected status
BOSTON - When Sudanese immigrant Hiwaida Elarabi learned the U.S. government was ending the temporary protected status that allowed her to live and work in the country legally for two decades, she sol...
Oct 05, 2018
Danny Boyle to gather Britons on beaches to mark end of WWI
LONDON - Filmmaker Danny Boyle is urging thousands of people to gather on British beaches and make silhouettes in the sand on Nov. 11 to mark 100 years since the end of World War I. Sand artists will ...
Oct 05, 2018
Vegas shooting victims' families view loved ones' portraits
LAS VEGAS - Families of some of the 58 people killed in last year’s mass shooting in Las Vegas met Thursday night with artists who spent days, weeks and months staring at pictures of their lost ...
Oct 05, 2018
Kavanaugh confirmation all but sure after long, bitter fight
WASHINGTON - After weeks of shocking accusations, hardball politics and rowdy Capitol protests, a pair of wavering senators declared Friday they will back Brett Kavanaugh’s Supreme Court confirm...
Oct 05, 2018
India signs $5 billion deal for Russian air defence systems
NEW DELHI - India signed a $5 billion deal to buy five Russian S-400 air defence systems on Friday despite a looming threat of U.S. sanctions on countries that trade with Russia’s defence and in...
Oct 05, 2018
As Gaza worsens, Palestinian leader controls fate of US plan
JERUSALEM - Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has been sidelined, isolated and humiliated by the Trump administration. But the embattled Palestinian leader may have the final say in determining the ...
Oct 05, 2018
Brazil's Workers' Party likens front-runner to Hitler
RIO DE JANEIRO - Brazil’s Workers’ Party is comparing far-right candidate Jair Bolsonaro to Adolf Hitler in a new video. The video was published Thursday from the party’s Twitter acc...
Oct 05, 2018
Dave Anderson, sports columnist, Pulitzer winner, dies at 89
NEW YORK - Dave Anderson, a genteel sports writer whose elegant, descriptive prose won a Pulitzer Prize for commentary as a columnist for The New York Times, died Thursday. He was 89. He died at an as...
Oct 05, 2018