Category Archives: Canadian Press
Pete Davidson addresses bullying after Ariana Grande breakup
NEW YORK - Pete Davidson says he’s not going to “kill myself.” Davidson is breaking his silence in an Instagram post following his short-lived engagement with Ariana Grande. The 25-y...
Dec 04, 2018
Macron caves in to French protesters - too late, they say
PARIS - The French government caved in after Paris’ worst rioting in decades and delayed an increase in energy taxes Tuesday - but it was seen as “too little, too late” by many prote...
Dec 04, 2018
Rich sex offender Epstein settles 1 suit, but more to come
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. - A decade ago, Florida financier Jeffrey Epstein pleaded guilty to sex crimes involving underage girls and got 13 months behind bars. What the public and his accusers didn’...
Dec 04, 2018
Honduras mother waits for migrant son missing en route to US
SAN PEDRO SULA, Honduras - Haydee Posadas had waited eight years for her son to come home. On the last night of her long vigil, she was too agitated to sleep. Her son had fled Honduras for the U.S. in...
Dec 04, 2018
Crowds honour Bush for long service, from war to White House
WASHINGTON - Soldiers, citizens in wheelchairs and long lines of others on foot wound through the hushed Capitol Rotunda on Tuesday to view George H.W. Bush’s casket and remember a president who...
Dec 04, 2018
Boy hits target, convinces town to scrap snowball fight ban
SEVERANCE, Colo. - A 9-year-old boy has convinced the leaders of a small northern Colorado town to overturn a nearly century-old ban on snowball fights, and he already knows who his first target will ...
Dec 04, 2018
Not just a fashion statement: Bush's socks spoke volumes
HOUSTON - President George H.W. Bush said a lot with socks. A visit from friend and fellow former president, Bill Clinton, inspired him to wear a pair emblazoned with Clinton’s face. He wore Hou...
Dec 04, 2018
Should you need to pass a social media check to get a gun?
ALBANY, N.Y. - Should hateful tweets keep you from getting a gun? That’s a question many have asked after suspects in several horrific mass shootings were found only later to have left social me...
Dec 04, 2018
Soldier who tried to help terrorists gets 25-year sentence
HONOLULU - A soldier based in Hawaii was sentenced Tuesday to 25 years in prison for trying to help the Islamic State group. Sgt. 1st Class Ikaika Kang, 35, pleaded guilty in August to four counts of ...
Dec 04, 2018
Spain, California family go to trial over disputed Nazi art
LOS ANGELES - Seventy-nine years ago a Jewish woman named Lilly Cassirer surrendered her family’s priceless Camille Pissarro painting to the Nazis in exchange for safe passage out of Nazi German...
Dec 04, 2018