Category Archives: Canadian Press
Lewandowski on girl with Down syndrome: 'Wah wah'
WASHINGTON - A former campaign manager for Donald Trump has created a stir by dismissing a story about a girl with Down syndrome with a sarcastic “Wah wah.” Corey Lewandowski appeared Tues...
Jun 20, 2018
Prosecutors decline assault charges against Scott Baio
LOS ANGELES - Prosecutors have declined to file charges against Scott Baio stemming from allegations by his former “Charles in Charge” co-star that he sexually assaulted her. The Los Angel...
Jun 20, 2018
Mandalay Bay hotel in Vegas floods after water main break
LAS VEGAS - A water main broke Tuesday flooding a convention centre in the Mandalay Bay hotel in Las Vegas. The Las Vegas Review Journal reports that the break dumped water onto the first floor of the...
Jun 20, 2018
Judge disputes California aimed to hinder border enforcement
SACRAMENTO, Calif. - A U.S. judge said Wednesday that he was not convinced California enacted protections for immigrants in the country illegally in an effort to interfere with federal immigration enf...
Jun 20, 2018
Sister led California police to shackled, starving siblings
RIVERSIDE, Calif. - In a plea to a police dispatcher to “help my sisters,” a 17-year-old girl in a childlike, quivering voice detailed years of abuse she and 12 siblings suffered in a squa...
Jun 20, 2018
Chicago teen eligible for parole next April in 2014 killing
CHICAGO - A Chicago teenager who pleaded guilty to fatally shooting another 14-year-old girl in a street fight in 2014 that escalated from a Facebook feud over a boy will be eligible for parole in Apr...
Jun 20, 2018
Fixing a massive NYC plumbing leak, 55 stories underground
NEWBURGH, N.Y. - New York City is in the midst of a plumbing repair job of monumental proportions. Hard-hat workers are toiling deep underground, 55 stories beneath the Hudson River, to eliminate gush...
Jun 20, 2018
Volgograd provides the proper perspective at World Cup
VOLGOGRAD, Russia - Nearly 60 years since it changed its name to Volgograd, the Russian city once called Stalingrad and its bloody history loom large even in the midst of the fun and football of the W...
Jun 20, 2018
Kim leaves China as S. Korea urges 'concrete' plan on nukes
BEIJING - South Korea urged North Korea on Wednesday to present a plan with concrete steps toward denuclearization, raising the pressure on its leader Kim Jong Un as he met with Chinese President Xi J...
Jun 20, 2018
Despite the odds, Turkey's opposition mounts tough challenge
ANKARA, Turkey - Turkey’s airwaves and billboards are dominated by speeches and campaign ads for President Recep Tayyip Erdogan ahead of Sunday’s presidential and parliamentary elections, ...
Jun 20, 2018