Category Archives: Canadian Press

SAN FRANCISCO - The first black female mayor of San Francisco made history Wednesday as she took the oath of office and outlined an ambitious to-do list to make a city known for immense wealth but als...

LONDON - Facebook is facing its first financial penalty for allowing the data-mining firm Cambridge Analytica to forage through the personal data of millions of unknowing Facebook users. A U.K. govern...

LOS ANGELES - Sarah Palin says she was “duped.” The former Republican vice-presidential candidate says she fell victim to British comedian Sacha Baron Cohen during an interview for his upc...

MIAMI - Forecasters say Atlantic Ocean beachgoers should be wary of heavy surf and life-threatening rip-currents this week as Hurricane Chris swirls off the U.S. East Coast. At 11 a.m. EDT Wednesday, ...

HALIFAX - ExxonMobil removed some of its workers from offshore oil platforms Wednesday as hurricane Chris advanced toward Atlantic Canada. The Category 2 storm, which was churning out winds in excess ...

AUGUSTA, Ga. - The mother and father of a 4-year-old Georgia boy who found a loaded gun and fatally shot himself have been indicted. The Augusta Chronicle reports that a Richmond County grand jury ind...

OTTAWA - The MV Sun Sea carried nearly 500 Tamil migrants to Canada eight years ago, but now the rusting cargo ship sits forlornly on the B.C. coast - an unwanted vessel of toxins including asbestos, ...

Five stories in the news for Wednesday, July 11 --- CANADA TO LEAD NEW IRAQ TRAINING MISSION Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says Canada will assume command of a new NATO training mission in Iraq. This ...

MUNICH - A German court found the main defendant guilty on Wednesday in a string of neo-Nazi killings more than a decade ago - a high-profile trial that raised fresh questions about the treatment of m...

BEIJING - China’s government vowed Wednesday to take “firm and forceful measures” as the U.S. threatened to expand tariffs to thousands of Chinese imports like fish sticks, apples an...