Category Archives: Canadian Press

RABAT, Morocco - For 23 years, Khadija says her husband raped her, nearly every day. And her case is far from unique, according to counsellors at the Annajda Center in Rabat, one of over 1,000 associa...

CUCUTA, Colombia - In a cramped hospital near Colombia’s border with Venezuela, migrants fill stretchers bearing the wounds of the deteriorating nation they left behind. An 18-year-old woman rub...

KANDY, Sri Lanka - Buddhist mobs swept through Muslim neighbourhoods in Sri Lanka’s central hills, destroying stores and restaurants and setting homes on fire despite a curfew, a state of emerge...

WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump and his appointees have stocked federal agencies with ex-lobbyists and corporate lawyers who now help regulate the very industries from which they previously collec...

WASHINGTON - Not long ago, Gary Cohn was laying out an ambitious 2018 economic agenda for the Trump administration. Fresh off the triumph of a sweeping new tax cut, President Donald Trump’s top ...

PITTSBURGH - In the first wave of the White House’s new western Pennsylvania offensive, one of President Donald Trump’s chief aides on Thursday attacked Democratic congressional candidate ...

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. - Metal detectors at an Alabama high school were not in use the day a 17-year-old student was killed in a shooting on campus, the district’s superintendent said Thursday. Birmin...

PROVIDENCE, R.I. - When the U.S. Navy sought the first female sailors to serve on submarines, Suraya Mattocks raised her hand because she thought it would be a cool job, not because she wanted to blaz...

The head of the U.N. agency promoting equality for women says the global spotlight on sexual harassment and abuse and the punishment of some powerful men who had been “untouchable” is an i...

OTTAWA - The Supreme Court of Canada has agreed to hear an appeal in the case of an Ontario trucker who was acquitted in the death of an Indigenous woman in an Edmonton motel room. In March 2015, Brad...