Category Archives: Canadian Press
Police give $3 to person who found it 14 years ago
MONMOUTH BEACH, N.J. - Police in New Jersey have given $3 to the person who found it 14 years ago. Paige Woodie was 12 years old when she and a friend discovered the cash and turned it into a Monmouth...
Dec 11, 2018
Minneapolis Star Tribune film critic resigns over plagiarism
MINNEAPOLIS - The Minneapolis Star Tribune’s film critic has resigned in the face of plagiarism accusations, the newspaper reported in an apology to its readers. The newspaper on Tuesday said it...
Dec 11, 2018
Juliette Binoche to head Berlin film festival jury
BERLIN - Juliette Binoche will be the jury president at this winter’s Berlin International Film Festival. Organizers of the festival announced Tuesday that the French actress will lead the jury ...
Dec 11, 2018
US wholesale prices rise 0.1 pct., a sign inflation in check
WASHINGTON - U.S. wholesale prices barely rose last month as a sharp decline in the cost of gas offset pricier freight trucking services and mobile phone plans. The Labor Department said Tuesday that ...
Dec 11, 2018
4 journalists and a newspaper are Time's Person of the Year
NEW YORK - Time magazine on Tuesday recognized journalists, including the slain Saudi columnist Jamal Khashoggi, as its 2018 Person of the Year in what it said was an effort to emphasize the importanc...
Dec 11, 2018
Ex-diplomat who worked on Trudeau's Hong Kong visit detained in China
OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says his government has contacted Chinese authorities about the detention of a sometime Canadian diplomat in China at a time of intensifying tensions between the...
Dec 11, 2018
UK's May hits narrowing road for help rescuing Brexit deal
BRUSSELS - Prime Minister Theresa May said she found “a shared determination” among some European leaders Tuesday to persuade the British Parliament to accept a proposed Brexit deal, but h...
Dec 11, 2018
The cost of France's protests running into billions
PARIS - France’s wave of protests and violence over the past month or so has already cost the eurozone’s second-largest economy a fortune. Road blockades, demonstrations and successive wee...
Dec 11, 2018
ESPN signs Jessica Mendoza to multiyear extension
Jessica Mendoza will have more of a presence on various ESPN platforms starting next baseball season. Mendoza signed a multiyear extension with ESPN to remain part of the “Sunday Night Baseball&...
Dec 11, 2018
'Truth isn't truth' tops list of notable quotes in 2018
NEW HAVEN, Conn. - The assertion that “truth isn’t truth,” made by a personal attorney for President Donald Trump, tops a Yale Law School librarian’s list of the most notable q...
Dec 11, 2018