Category Archives: Canadian Press

Education Secretary Betsy DeVos and other proponents of school voucher programs are praising a U.S. Supreme Court ruling that said a Lutheran church was wrongly denied a state grant for its preschool ...

WASHINGTON - Somewhere along the way, the Republican crusade to repeal “Obamacare” also turned into an effort to limit the future growth of Medicaid. That bit of mission creep is complicat...

WASHINGTON - The District of Columbia is giving residents a new gender option on their driver’s licenses or identification cards issued by the city’s department of motor vehicles. On Tuesd...

TOKYO - A 14-year-old boy is taking his country by storm with a record-breaking start to his pro career in the Japanese version of chess. Ninth-grader Sota Fujii broke a 30-year-old record this week w...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska - Leonard Larkins and nearly 4,000 other segregated black soldiers helped build a highway across Alaska and Canada during World War II, a contribution largely ignored for decades but...

SAO PAULO - Embattled in Congress and unpopular on the streets, President Michel Temer has now been charged with corruption by Brazil’s top prosecutor in the wake of a plea bargain signed by exe...

TORONTO - A proposal to bury tonnes of radioactive waste in a bunker near Lake Huron has moved a step toward a decision on whether the multibillion-dollar project can proceed. Federal authorities say ...

HUNTSVILLE, Ala. - A security scare that shut down an Alabama Army base and sparked fears of a shooting was a false alarm, the military said Wednesday. A statement released by Redstone Arsenal said so...

COLUMBIA, S.C. - One by one, Denver Simmons recalled, he and his partner lured inmates into his cell. William Scruggs was promised cookies in exchange for doing some laundry; Jimmy Ham thought he was ...

LETHBRIDGE, Alta. - Canadian rugby coach Ric Suggitt, who guided national teams on both side of the border, has died. He was 58. Suggitt, head coach of the women’s team at the University of Leth...