Category Archives: Canadian Press
Analysis: With 'America First,' where do human rights rank?
WASHINGTON - If it’s an “America First” presidency, where does that rank human rights? President Donald Trump’s refusal to put public pressure on Saudi Arabia over the disappea...
Oct 18, 2018
Facebook's election 'war room' takes aim at fake information
MENLO PARK, Calif. - In an otherwise innocuous part of Facebook’s expansive Silicon Valley campus, a locked door bears a taped-on sign that reads “War Room.” Behind the door lies a n...
Oct 18, 2018
Post-Michael Florida: Fear, frustration and life on the edge
MEXICO BEACH, Fla. - Missing relatives and worries that looters are just outside the door. Dirty clothes. Hours-long lines for gasoline, insurance adjusters, food and water. No power, no air condition...
Oct 18, 2018
London's black cabs soon to be seen on the streets of Paris
London’s black cabs will be seen on the streets of Paris next year as the company that makes them begins selling its wares in the City of Light. London Electric Vehicle Co., which makes plug-in ...
Oct 18, 2018
TSA officers buy shirt for boy travelling to Denver
NEW YORK - Transportation Security Administration officers in New York bought a shirt for a shirtless boy who was travelling to Denver. The TSA says the boy and his father arrived at a checkpoint at L...
Oct 18, 2018
Farm-rich Salinas exemplifies California's housing struggles
SALINAS, Calif. - Middle-school English teacher Maryam Powers doesn’t take vacations. To earn additional money, she picks up an extra period of teaching when she can and mentors new hires. But t...
Oct 18, 2018
Man linked to Saudi prince at consulate when writer vanished
ISTANBUL - A member of Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman’s entourage during several trips abroad walked into the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul just before writer Jamal Khashoggi vanished ther...
Oct 18, 2018
Khashoggi warns in last column of free rein to silence media
WASHINGTON - The Washington Post has published a new column by missing Saudi writer Jamal Khashoggi in which he warns that governments in the Middle East “have been given free rein to continue s...
Oct 18, 2018
Crimean city turns to mourning 20 victims of school attack
MOSCOW - While Crimean authorities searched for clues that might help explain why a teenager gunned down 20 people at his vocational school before killing himself, the stunned city of Kerch prepared t...
Oct 18, 2018
Child of the storm: Homeless baby, family shelter at Walmart
PANAMA CITY, Fla. - Their home full of soggy furniture and mosquitoes, Wilmer Capps was desperate to find shelter for his wife and their son Luke, born just three days after Hurricane Michael ravaged ...
Oct 18, 2018