Category Archives: Canadian Press
Trump boosts federal assistance to Puerto Rico
WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump cleared the way for additional federal funding for storm-ravaged Puerto Rico Thursday, as the territory continues to recover from the devastation left by Hurricane ...
Nov 02, 2017
Groups sue for details on Trump plan for national monuments
BILLINGS, Mont. - Environmentalists sued the administration of President Donald Trump on Thursday seeking to pry loose details of plans to shrink national monuments and marine areas and open them to m...
Nov 02, 2017
Trump announces semiconductor company's return to US
WASHINGTON - A $100 billion semiconductor company based in Singapore will legally relocate its home address to the United States, President Donald Trump announced Thursday. Broadcom Limited, which man...
Nov 02, 2017
US won't extradite American charged with murder to Tonga
HONOLULU - An American charged with murder in Tonga in connection with his wife’s death has been released from prison in Hawaii after the U.S. State Department refused to extradite him because o...
Nov 02, 2017
3 PETA protesters barred from SeaWorld San Diego
SAN DIEGO - Three animal rights activists are barred from SeaWorld San Diego after participating in a protest led by actor James Cromwell. A judge Thursday also barred Ricky Chavez Rodriguez, Lyanne F...
Nov 02, 2017
New Mexico looks for opioid solutions amid tributes to dead
SANTA FE, N.M. - A Day of the Dead altar with family photos of orphaned children in the arms of the departed stood as silent testimony to New Mexico’s struggle to reduce the toll of opioid addic...
Nov 02, 2017
Bill introduced allowing Hawaii's foreign fishermen onshore
HONOLULU - Hundreds of foreign fishermen currently confined to vessels in Honolulu for years at a time would be allowed to come ashore when they dock under legislation introduced Thursday in Congress....
Nov 02, 2017
GOP tax plan may offer little aid for many in middle class
WASHINGTON - House Republicans have stressed that the tax plan they unveiled Thursday is tailored to benefit America’s middle class. Just how much it would remains uncertain based on the details...
Nov 02, 2017
US, Russia offer rival measures to pursue Syria violations
The United States and Russia have circulated rival U.N. resolutions on extending the work of experts seeking to determine who is responsible for chemical weapons attacks in Syria. Russia vetoed a U.S....
Nov 02, 2017
Treatment of blacks in St. Louis prompts economic boycott
ST. LOUIS - Amid ongoing protests reinvigorated by the acquittal of a white former police officer in the death of a black suspect, several African-American faith and civic leaders in St. Louis announc...
Nov 02, 2017