Category Archives: Canadian Press
Women will surround Trump at State of the Union address
WASHINGTON - Pelosi behind and above. Female immigrants, gazing down from the balcony. A black woman who ran a close race for governor of Georgia, rebutting. When President Donald Trump delivers his f...
Feb 01, 2019
In reversal, Trump now says he and intel chiefs in agreement
WASHINGTON - A day after he lashed out at U.S. intelligence agency chiefs over their assessments of global threats, President Donald Trump abruptly reversed course and said that he and the intelligenc...
Feb 01, 2019
China greets Lunar New Year with celebrations, travel rush
BEIJING - China is greeting next week’s Lunar New Year with celebrations and a travel rush that will see an estimated 3 billion trips by people around the country. Thousands of passengers toted ...
Feb 01, 2019
Jailed Reuters reporters appeal to Myanmar's Supreme Court
NAYPYITAW, Myanmar - A lawyer for two Reuters journalists sentenced to seven years in prison on charges of violating Myanmar’s Official Secrets Act filed an appeal Friday with the Supreme Court ...
Feb 01, 2019
Dalhousie's interim president stirs controversy with book on campus dissent
HALIFAX - Dalhousie University’s interim president has written a new book on campus debate and dissent - and it has provoked both at the Halifax school, with some students calling for his dismis...
Feb 01, 2019
Iran begins marking 40th anniversary of Islamic Revolution
TEHRAN, Iran - Iran on Friday began celebrations to mark the 40th anniversary of the 1979 Islamic Revolution that toppled the U.S.-backed shah, overturned 2,500 years of monarchical rule and brought h...
Feb 01, 2019
Ayatollah Khomeini's family mostly absent from Iran politics
TEHRAN, Iran - His image is on bank notes and in school textbooks in Iran, often as a black-and-white embodiment of the 1979 Islamic Revolution that swept aside the country’s shah and forever ch...
Feb 01, 2019
Human toll of cold: more than 2 dozen dead, hundreds hurt
CHICAGO - The dangerous cold and heavy snow that hobbled the northern U.S. this week has retreated, but not before exacting a human toll: more than two dozen weather-related deaths in eight states and...
Feb 01, 2019
Judge in Roger Stone case says she's considering gag order
WASHINGTON - A federal judge on Friday cautioned longtime Donald Trump confidant Roger Stone not to treat the charges against him like a public relations campaign or book tour, and said she may issue ...
Feb 01, 2019
US employers add robust 304K jobs in sign of durable economy
WASHINGTON - U.S. employers shrugged off last month’s partial shutdown of the government and engaged in a burst of hiring in January, adding 304,000 jobs, the most in nearly a year. The healthy ...
Feb 01, 2019