Category Archives: Canadian Press

OTTAWA - The Bank of Canada raised its key interest rate target Wednesday. Here’s the text of the central bank’s announcement: The Bank of Canada today increased its target for the overnig...

NEW YORK - ABC News says that it is treating midterm election night coverage as if it were a presidential year, promising Wednesday to get a one-hour jump on its broadcast rivals by devoting the entir...

LONDON - Ireland’s government has approved a forensic excavation of a Catholic-run orphanage where a mass grave containing the remains of hundreds of children was discovered. Children’s Mi...

WASHINGTON - Investigators searched coast-to-coast Thursday for the culprit and motives behind the bizarre mail-bomb plot aimed at critics of the president, analyzing the innards of the crude devices ...

IQALUIT, Nunavut - The federal Liberal government is turning its face to the North with changes in a major ministry and at the Canadian Coast Guard. “It is definitely a step toward a northern st...

TORONTO - With the recognition that physician prescribing plays a significant role in Canada’s opioid crisis, a team of researchers has developed a program called STOP Narcotics to dramatically ...

NEW YORK - Bomb found at home of Hillary and Bill Clinton in New York City suburb. More coming. The Associated Press

RIYADH, Saudi Arabia - In a fiery and unwavering appearance Wednesday at an investment forum, Saudi Arabia’s crown prince called the killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi “heinous” a...

ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia - As shocking details in the killing of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi approached a crescendo, the war-torn nation of South Sudan this week issued a rare foreign ministry state...

SYDNEY, Australia - The wife of actor Geoffrey Rush cried as she told a Sydney court on Wednesday how he had wept and curled up in the fetal position following newspaper allegations he had behaved ina...