Category Archives: Canadian Press

OXON HILL, Md. - Ananya Vinay showed little emotion as she plowed through word after mystifying word in the final rounds of the Scripps National Spelling Bee. Later, as she stood beside the confetti-c...

TOKYO - Taxpayers beware: The cost of hosting an Olympics is likely to be far more than advertised. The price tag on the 2020 Tokyo Olympics has ballooned to nearly twice the initial estimate, even af...

WASHINGTON - The U.S. trade deficit rose in April to the highest level since January. The politically sensitive trade gap with China registered a sharp increase. The Commerce Department said Friday th...

Friday’s Games AHL Calder Cup final Grand Rapids 3 Syracuse 2 (Grand Rapids leads series 1-0) — MLB American Toronto 7 N.Y. Yankees 5 Baltimore 3 Boston 2 Detroit 15 Chicago White Sox 5 Ka...

TOKYO - A bill allowing the 83-year-old emperor to abdicate has cleared the more powerful chamber of Japan’s parliament, setting the stage for his elder son Crown Prince Naruhito to succeed the ...

OTTAWA - Federal officials have advised Public Safety Minister Ralph Goodale to put the brakes on setting up a publicly accessible database of high-risk child sex offenders. The previous Conservative ...

JUBA, South Sudan - Fifteen young children have died in a botched measles vaccination campaign that saw people as young as 12 years old administering the vaccines, South Sudan’s government annou...

LOS ANGELES - Embattled comedian Kathy Griffin says she’s not afraid of Donald Trump and plans to keep making fun of him but maintained that she’s sorry for a video that depicted her holdi...

OTTAWA - Opposition parties and international legal experts are calling on Ottawa to say what it plans to do about three UN drug treaties that pose a conundrum for the Liberal government and its plans...

WASHINGTON - The Trump administration has asked the Supreme Court to immediately reinstate its ban on travellers from six mostly Muslim countries and refugees from anywhere in the world, saying the U....