Category Archives: Canadian Press

NEW YORK - Fair housing advocates sued Facebook Tuesday, saying it lets landlords and real estate brokers target advertising to discriminate against women, those with disabilities and families with ch...

HONOLULU - A state Senate committee in Hawaii on Tuesday called for a statue of former President Barack Obama to be erected in the state where he was born. The Senate Judiciary Committee voted unanimo...

HUNTSVILLE, Texas - A San Antonio man who became known as the “suitcase killer” was executed Tuesday evening in Texas for the slaying of a 29-year-old Lubbock woman whose battered, naked b...

TOPEKA, Kan. - A water park company co-owner accused of rushing the world’s tallest waterslide into service and a designer accused of shoddy planning were charged Tuesday in the decapitation of ...

Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates gave $930 million to U.N. humanitarian efforts in Yemen on Tuesday as a war between a Saudi-led military coalition and Yemen’s Shiite rebels enters its ...

SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Jurors recommend the death penalty Tuesday for a man who repeatedly entered the United States illegally before killing two Northern California deputies in a case that fueled the n...

LARANJEIRAS DO SUL, Brazil - Gunshots hit two buses in a caravan for former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva’s campaign tour in southern Brazil on Tuesday, officials in his Worker’s Par...

VERMILLION, S.D. - A South Dakota museum that boasts one of the world’s largest collections of musical instruments is about to get bigger. The National Music Museum at the University of South Da...

MONTREAL - A Montreal-area man whose aggressive behaviour forced a Cuba-bound aircraft to return to Canada under a U.S. miltary escort last summer will be sentenced April 18. Charalabos Nassios, 40, h...

JOHANNESBURG - Angry and with his voice trembling at times, Australia’s cricket chief announced Tuesday that team captain Steve Smith and two other players who plotted to cheat in a test in Sout...