Category Archives: Canadian Press
Icy blast reminds of 2014 'polar vortex,' with worst to come
FARGO, N.D. - An arctic blast spread painful cold across the Midwest on Friday, closing schools, opening warming centres and even intimidating ice fishermen in a taste of the even more dangerous weath...
Jan 25, 2019
Pope brings World Youth Day to prisoners, hears confessions
LAS GARZAS, Panama - Pope Francis on Friday brought World Youth Day to Panama’s juvenile delinquents, celebrating an emotional penitential liturgy inside the country’s main youth prison si...
Jan 25, 2019
Dueling Venezuela leaders dig in defending presidency claims
CARACAS, Venezuela - The Venezuelan opposition leader who has declared himself interim president vowed Friday he would remain on the streets until the South American country has a transitional governm...
Jan 25, 2019
Trump's retreat: Shutdown ends without wall money, for now
WASHINGTON - Submitting to mounting pressure amid growing disruption, President Donald Trump agreed to a deal Friday to reopen the government for three weeks, backing down from his demand that Congres...
Jan 25, 2019
Video shows brutality of knife attack on helpless inmates
COLUMBUS, Ohio - A newly released video shows the brutality of an Ohio inmate’s knife attack on four other prisoners who were handcuffed to a table and unable to defend themselves. The video obt...
Jan 25, 2019
Trump ally Stone charged with lying about hacked emails
WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump’s confidant Roger Stone has been charged with lying about his pursuit of Russian-hacked emails damaging to Hillary Clinton’s 2016 election bid. Prosecut...
Jan 25, 2019
Spanish boy found dead in borehole after dire 13-day search
MADRID - Rescue crews in Spain early Saturday found the body of a 2-year-old boy, whose fall into a deep borehole 13 days earlier prompted a complex and heart-wrenching search-and-rescue operation tha...
Jan 25, 2019
In the news today, Jan. 25
Four stories in the news for Friday, Jan. 25 --- MOUNTIES TO GIVE UPDATE ON KINGSTON, ONT., ARRESTS RCMP are expected to give an update today on a national security investigation that saw two people a...
Jan 25, 2019
Under construction: Broncos family focused on rebuilding, not sentencing hearing
AIRDRIE, Alta. - The family of injured Humboldt Broncos player Ryan Straschnitzki is focusing its attention closer to home ahead of next week’s sentencing hearing for the truck driver who caused...
Jan 25, 2019
Indian Act to blame for pipeline gridlock in northern B.C.: federal minister
VANCOUVER - Canada’s minister of Crown-Indigenous relations is pointing her finger at the Indian Act for creating a gridlock in northern British Columbia where some hereditary clan chiefs say a ...
Jan 25, 2019