Category Archives: Canadian Press
3 men charged with planning mass killing in Australian city
CANBERRA, Australia - Three men inspired by the Islamic State group were charged on Tuesday with planning a mass-casualty attack in Australia’s second-largest city, police said. The Australian c...
Nov 20, 2018
AP FACT CHECK: Trump book didn't foreshadow bin Laden attack
WASHINGTON - In an echo of his campaign rhetoric, President Donald Trump is back to portraying himself as the Paul Revere of the terrorism age - the one who told the country Osama bin Laden was coming...
Nov 20, 2018
400 years later, natives who helped Pilgrims gain a voice
PLYMOUTH, Mass. - The seaside town where the Pilgrims came ashore in 1620 is gearing up for a 400th birthday bash, and everyone’s invited - especially the native people whose ancestors wound up ...
Nov 20, 2018
Scientists work to save wild Puerto Rican parrot after Maria
EL YUNQUE, Puerto Rico - Biologists are trying to save the last of the endangered Puerto Rican parrots after more than half the population of the bright green birds with turquoise-tipped wings disappe...
Nov 20, 2018
A demand for a ring, an eruption of gunfire and 4 dead
CHICAGO - Moments before her ex-fiance fatally shot her in the parking lot of the hospital where she worked, a Chicago doctor called 911 to report that she had spotted the man and feared for her life,...
Nov 20, 2018
Russian challenge to chemical weapons watchdog rejected
BRUSSELS - The global chemical weapons watchdog’s initiative to apportion blame for poison gas and nerve agent attacks survived two institutional challenges from Russia on Tuesday and is set to ...
Nov 20, 2018
Kosovo's bid to join Interpol fails, in victory for Serbia
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates - Kosovo failed in its bid to join Interpol on Tuesday in a vote held during the international law enforcement organization’s annual general assembly in Dubai, dealin...
Nov 20, 2018
In the news today, Nov. 20
Five stories in the news for Tuesday, Nov. 20 --- ON POT, EXPERTS PREACH BORDER VIGILANCE Marijuana has been legal in Canada for a month already, but immigration lawyers and cannabis executives say wh...
Nov 20, 2018
Vigilance the watchword for pot users, investors, executives at Canada-US border
WASHINGTON - People who work, invest or partake in Canada’s legal cannabis industry will continue to risk a lifetime ban from the United States as long as the drug remains a controlled substance...
Nov 20, 2018
Bolder action needed to reduce child poverty: Campaign 2000 report card
OTTAWA - Brynn Vincent was only 13 when she started experimenting with drugs and alcohol. Two years later, she was addicted and had run away from home and then she found out she was pregnant. She soug...
Nov 20, 2018