Category Archives: Canadian Press

50 years after it opened, Alabama music studio plans a party
SHEFFIELD, Ala. - A small northern Alabama music studio where The Rolling Stones, Cher, and other stars recorded their hit songs is turning 50 this year. Muscle Shoals Sound Studios will host an April...
Mar 02, 2019
Kingsbury wins silver at moguls World Cup, Dufour-Lapointe takes bronze
ALMATY, Kazakhstan - Canada’s Mikael Kingsbury placed second in the final moguls singles World Cup of the season on Saturday while Justine Dufour-Lapointe took bronze in the women’s event....
Mar 02, 2019

Growing support for separating roles of justice minister and attorney general
OTTAWA - Federal Justice Minister David Lametti is publicly musing about whether Canada should consider separating the offices of its attorney general and its minister of justice in the wake of the SN...
Mar 02, 2019

Harvard choir that rejected W.E.B. Du Bois pays him tribute
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. - A Harvard University choir group that rejected author W.E.B. Du Bois when he was a student because he was black will celebrate his work through a musical tribute. The Harvard Glee C...
Mar 02, 2019
Crew capsule rockets toward space station with test dummy
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - America’s newest capsule for astronauts rocketed Saturday toward the International Space Station on a high-stakes test flight by SpaceX. The only passenger was a life-size...
Mar 02, 2019

Sanders returns to NY roots, says he can defeat Trump
NEW YORK - Bernie Sanders kicked off his presidential campaign Saturday miles from the rent-controlled apartment where he grew up in Brooklyn and forcefully made the case that he is nothing like fello...
Mar 02, 2019
North Korea's Kim leaves Vietnam after summit breakdown
DONG DANG, Vietnam - Smiling and holding up his clasped hands in a victorious pose, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un on Saturday boarded his private train at the Vietnam-China border for a 60-plus-hour...
Mar 02, 2019

Saudi prosecutors say women's rights activists to face trial
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates - Prosecutors in Saudi Arabia have referred detained women’s rights activists to trial, saying those charged “enjoy all rights preserved by the laws in the king...
Mar 02, 2019
Official: Taliban target army corps, killing 23 soldiers
KABUL - Taliban insurgents targeted an Afghan army corps at their camp in the southern Helmand province, killing at least 23, officials said Saturday. Omar Zwak, spokesman for the provincial governor,...
Mar 02, 2019

8 killed in India-Pakistan fighting amid high tensions
SRINAGAR, India - Indian and Pakistani soldiers have again targeted each other’s posts and villages along their volatile frontier in disputed Kashmir, killing at least six civilians and two Paki...
Mar 02, 2019