Category Archives: Canadian Press
Border Protection says NYC mayor crossed border illegally
WASHINGTON - New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio and his security detail violated both Mexican and U.S. immigration laws by crossing the border on foot during a visit near El Paso, Texas, U.S. Customs ...
Jul 11, 2018
Kavanaugh's views of presidential power drawing questions
WASHINGTON - Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh’s past writings that a president should not be distracted by lawsuits and investigations could become a flashpoint in what’s already shap...
Jul 11, 2018
Pardoned ranchers arrive home, plan lots of 'decompressing'
SALEM, Ore. - Father and son ranchers, who were the focus of a battle about public lands and were freed from prison after receiving a presidential pardon, were welcomed home Wednesday in Oregon by rel...
Jul 11, 2018
A brief history of German neo-Nazi group NSU
MUNICH - German authorities blame the neo-Nazi group National Socialist Underground for a string of violent crimes including the racially motivated killing of nine men, the killing of a policewoman, t...
Jul 11, 2018
A look at the 5 people convicted in Germany's neo-Nazi trial
MUNICH - Five people have been convicted as part of a trial that began in May 2013 over their involvement with the National Socialist Underground, a neo-Nazi group that carried out the biggest killing...
Jul 11, 2018
Coffee and conservation: Mozambique tries both on a mountain
MOUNT GORONGOSA, Mozambique - At Mozambique’s Mount Gorongosa - where farmers are being encouraged to grow coffee in the shade of hardwood trees, both to improve their own lot and to restore the...
Jul 11, 2018
Abe visiting flood-hit western Japan as deaths reach 176
HIROSHIMA, Japan - Residents shovelled mud and debris to clear streets so they could get out for food and other supplies Wednesday in areas of western Japan hard hit by landslides and flooding that st...
Jul 11, 2018
The case of the 141-year-old voter: Zimbabwe ballot at risk
HARARE, Zimbabwe - The world’s oldest person is 141 years of age and lives in Zimbabwe. Not far behind is a 134-year-old, also in Zimbabwe. At least that’s according to the country’s...
Jul 11, 2018
Execution blocked after company objects to use of its drug
LAS VEGAS - A twice-convicted killer who wants to die rather than spend his life in prison was about an hour from eating his final meal Wednesday when he found out a Nevada judge had indefinitely dela...
Jul 11, 2018
Pollution controls help red spruce rebound from acid rain
STOWE, Vt. - The grey trunks of red spruce trees killed by acid rain once heavily scarred the mountain forests of the Northeast. Now those forests are mostly green, with the crowns of red spruce peeki...
Jul 11, 2018