Category Archives: Canadian Press
'Bursting point': Booming Halifax courted by multiple sports leagues
HALIFAX - When Halifax Mooseheads players laced up their skates for the first time, the team was a gamble. It was the first Quebec Major Junior Hockey League club in the Maritimes, and the city had ju...
Dec 11, 2018
Trump threatens shutdown in wild encounter with Democrats
WASHINGTON - In a wild Oval Office confrontation, President Donald Trump heatedly threatened to shut down the U.S. government Tuesday as he and Democratic leaders bickered over funding for his promise...
Dec 11, 2018
Normalcy restored in Egyptian Sinai city, but danger lurks
EL ARISH, Egypt - Mohammed Amer Shaaban stood over trays of fresh fish at his tiny store in the coastal Sinai Peninsula city of el-Arish, pointing to his right and left while recalling the tough days ...
Dec 11, 2018
US returns 3 disputed bells taken from Philippines in 1901
MANILA, Philippines - For over a century, the Bells of Balangiga have not rung in the Philippines, a silence that the president last year called “painful.” Now, the revered bells will once...
Dec 11, 2018
Police rip toddler from mother's arms at benefits office
NEW YORK - Outrage built Monday over a video showing police officers violently yanking a toddler from his mother’s arms at a Brooklyn public benefits office, with officials criticizing police fo...
Dec 11, 2018
Man who claimed Howard Hughes inheritance dies in Nevada
LAS VEGAS - Melvin Dummar died never seeing the $156 million that he argued for decades that eccentric billionaire Howard Hughes unexpectedly bequeathed to him for rescuing him on a desert road and dr...
Dec 11, 2018
Hints of Democratic agenda as Google CEO testifies
WASHINGTON - Google CEO Sundar Pichai - and other tech executives who may be watching - got hints Tuesday of what issues they can expect to face as Democrats take control of the House in three weeks. ...
Dec 11, 2018
China and US discuss plans for trade talks
BEIJING - China’s economy czar and U.S. trade envoys discussed plans for talks on a tariff battle, the government said Tuesday, indicating that negotiations are going ahead despite tension over ...
Dec 11, 2018
Refreezing still a threat after snowstorm; rain on the way
RALEIGH, N.C. - Seesawing temperatures across several southern states were gradually melting snow from a wintry storm, but also “transforming slushy roads into treacherous ice” during the ...
Dec 11, 2018
Man who killed newlywed during robbery executed in Texas
HUNTSVILLE, Texas - A Texas inmate was executed Tuesday evening for fatally shooting a newlywed during a robbery more than 25 years ago. Alvin Braziel Jr., 43, received lethal injection at the state p...
Dec 11, 2018