Category Archives: Canadian Press

NAIROBI, Kenya - Nicholas Bett, a Kenyan runner who won the 2015 world championship title in the 400-meter hurdles, was killed in an early-morning car crash Wednesday in the country’s famed high...

TAOS, N.M. - A father arrested at a ramshackle New Mexico compound where 11 hungry children were found living in filth was training youngsters to commit school shootings, prosecutors said in court doc...

AHIHUD, Israel - Anwar Saeb spent two decades in the Israeli military, rising to the rank of colonel and suffering wounds in battle while serving as a brigade commander during the 2006 war in Lebanon....

HARARE, Zimbabwe - Senior Zimbabwean opposition figure Tendai Biti on Thursday was charged with inciting public violence and declaring unofficial election results as fears grew about a government crac...

UKIAH, Calif. - Firefighters said for the first time Wednesday that they have made good progress battling the state’s largest-ever wildfire but didn’t expect to have it fully under control...

BEIJING - China’s exports to the United States surged last month as its merchants rushed to fill orders ahead of a jump in U.S. tariffs on Chinese goods. Its shipments to the United States climb...

LONDON - Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey defended his company’s decision not to ban right-wing conspiracy theorist Alex Jones and his “Infowars” show, as many other social media platforms ha...

Seven stories in the news for Wednesday, Aug. 8 --- CANADA-SAUDI SPAT NOW ENVELOPS STUDENTS, TRAVELLERS The diplomatic row between Canada and Saudi Arabia is now sweeping up Saudi students and some tr...

BANGSAL, Indonesia - Aid began reaching isolated areas of the Indonesian island struggling after a powerful earthquake that killed more than 130 people as rescuers intensified efforts Wednesday to fin...

ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. - Gretchen Carlson, the former Fox News host now in charge of the Miss America Organization, says the organization needs to heal a rift that has seen 20 state groups call for her a...