Category Archives: Canadian Press
States and feds unite on election security after '16 clashes
WASHINGTON - Weeks before the 2016 election, federal officials started making mysterious calls to the head of elections in Inyo County, California. They asked her to contact them if she noticed anythi...
Oct 19, 2018
GOP panel's foreign agent inquiry triggers harsh response
WASHINGTON - An environmental group has denounced a House oversight committee for suggesting the organization’s efforts to block construction of a U.S. military base on the southern Japanese isl...
Oct 19, 2018
A look at Afghanistan's parliamentary elections on Saturday
KABUL - Afghanistan is holding parliamentary elections on Saturday despite deep security concerns and ongoing fighting in as many as 20 out of the country’s 34 provinces. The vote comes amid a p...
Oct 19, 2018
UN Ambassador Nikki Haley pokes fun at herself at NY charity
NEW YORK - Nikki Haley was introduced as the next president of the United States by comedian Jim Gaffigan at a white-tie gala in New York Thursday evening where the outgoing U.N. Ambassador poked fun ...
Oct 19, 2018
93 women accuse former USC doctor of sex abuse
LOS ANGELES - Nearly 100 women who contend that they were sexually harassed or abused by a former University of Southern California gynecologist are suing the school, contending it ignored decades of ...
Oct 19, 2018
Indian temple priests turn back women, defying court ruling
NEW DELHI - Dozens of Hindu priests on Friday joined conservative protesters to block women of menstruating age from one of the world’s largest Hindu pilgrimage sites, defying a ruling from Indi...
Oct 19, 2018
Volunteers join search for girl whose parents were killed
BARRON, Wis. - One-hundred volunteers have joined the search for a Wisconsin girl who went missing earlier this week and whose parents were shot and killed in their home. Barron County Sheriff Chris F...
Oct 19, 2018
Seeking to frame election, Trump calls Dems 'too extreme'
MESA, Ariz. - President Donald Trump, seeking to frame the choices for voters in the midterm elections, said Friday that Democrats are “too extreme and too dangerous” to take control of Co...
Oct 19, 2018
Trump praises Montana congressman who body-slammed reporter
MISSOULA, Mont. - President Donald Trump praised a Republican congressman for body-slamming a reporter last year, calling him a “tough cookie” and saying he thinks it might have helped him...
Oct 19, 2018
Man rescued from Arizona mine lucky to survive fall, snakes
PHOENIX - An Arizona man who fell to the bottom of an old abandoned gold mine shaft, broke both his legs, fought off a trio of rattlesnakes and went two days without food or water before a friend hear...
Oct 19, 2018