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Limbaugh draws bipartisan condemnation for Buttigieg remarks
WASHINGTON - Conservative talk show host Rush Limbaugh drew bipartisan condemnation Thursday for saying the country won't elect Pete Buttigieg president because he's been "kissing his husband" on stag...
Feb 13, 2020

Venezuelan opposition leader Guaidó returns home after tour
CARACAS, Venezuela - Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaid returned home Tuesday, arriving on a commercial flight to the nation's main airport near Caracas without any major incidents after a risky ...
Feb 13, 2020

Barr: Trump tweets on cases make it 'impossible' to do job
WASHINGTON - Attorney General William Barr took a public swipe at President Donald Trump on Thursday, saying that the president's tweets about Justice Department prosecutors and cases "make it impossi...
Feb 13, 2020

Toronto Argonauts, Montreal Alouettes exchange kickers
The Toronto Argonauts and Montreal Alouettes swapped kickers Thursday. Toronto acquired kicker/punter Boris Bede from Montreal for kicker Tyler Crapigna. Bede hit 31-of-35 field goals last s...
Feb 13, 2020

Canada Soccer schedules news conference amidst speculation of international game
Canada Soccer has called a news conference for Friday in Langford, B.C., with the expectation that is to announce a men's international in March. Men's coach John Herdman is due to address the media a...
Feb 13, 2020

High-tech companies eyeing supply chains as coronavirus outbreak continues
OTTAWA - High-tech companies in Canada and around the world are eyeing their supply chains as the impact of the novel coronavirus in China on manufacturing plants is starting to be felt. The...
Feb 13, 2020

Trump nominates new ambassador to Canada to fill post vacant since August
WASHINGTON - Aldona Z. Wos, a former Manhattan physician, Republican fundraiser and North Carolina lawmaker who once was George W. Bush's ambassador to Estonia, has been nominated by Preside...
Feb 13, 2020

Iraq's approval of expanded NATO mission 'very positive,' Sajjan says
OTTAWA - Defence Minister Harjit Sajjan is hailing the Iraqi government's decision to let NATO stay in the country as a "very positive development," weeks after Iraq's legislators demanded f...
Feb 13, 2020

High-tech companies eyeing supply chains as coronavirus outbreak continues
OTTAWA - High-tech companies in Canada and around the world are eyeing their supply chains as the impact of the novel coronavirus in China on manufacturing plants is starting to be felt. The...
Feb 13, 2020

Prosecutors seek nearly 5 years for former Baltimore mayor
BALTIMORE - Federal prosecutors want the disgraced former mayor of Baltimore to be sentenced to nearly five years in prison for the scheme involving sales of her self-published "Healthy Holly" childre...
Feb 13, 2020