Category Archives: Canadian Press

Vancouver Starbucks locations will be the first in Canada to serve drinks without plastic straws as it works to eliminate the product from all its stores by 2020, the company announced Monday. The cof...

COVINGTON, Ky. - It had taken a decade for Brandon Tomas Tomas to establish a life in America: a wife, a steady job and five American-born children. It took 20 seconds for that life to be taken away. ...

TOKYO - North Korea’s vitriolic criticism of the U.S. following a first round of nuclear negotiations went out of its way to spare one person: President Donald Trump. In a statement issued just ...

ROME - As NATO allies convene, one issue not on their formal agenda but never far from their thoughts is immigration - even though illegal border crossings are decreasing on both sides of the Atlantic...

NEW YORK - Harvey Weinstein, who was previously indicted on charges involving two women, was released on bail on Monday while fighting sex crime accusations that now include a third woman. “We f...

WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump gloated about a court case that didn’t offer him the vindication he implied in his triumphant tweet. That capped a week of distortions, half-truths and swerve...

JOHANNESBURG - Beyonce and Jay-Z will headline a special Global Citizen Festival in honour of Nelson Mandela in South Africa late this year. The Dec. 2 concert in Johannesburg is part of events markin...

NEW YORK - A teenager has been accused of smashing the front window and iconic neon sign at New York’s Stonewall Inn, a landmark in the fight for gay rights. Police say the 19-year-old was upset...

HOUSTON - Police in Houston say a 2-year-old boy is dead after he apparently found a loaded gun in his home and shot himself in the head. The shooting happened Sunday afternoon in northwest Houston. P...

HANOI, Vietnam - U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Monday extolled improved relations with Vietnam as a model for rapprochement with North Korea. Pompeo met with senior Vietnamese officials, incl...