Category Archives: Canadian Press

Deadline to reunite immigrant families rapidly approaching
WASHINGTON - This spring, the Trump administration began a “zero tolerance” policy to criminally prosecute anyone caught crossing the border illegally. Because children can’t be in j...
Jul 06, 2018

Anne Frank's family tried to escape to US, hit roadblocks
BERLIN - Research suggests the family of Anne Frank, the world famous Jewish diarist who died in the Holocaust, attempted to immigrate to the United States and later also to Cuba, but their efforts we...
Jul 06, 2018
Americans playfully ponder pro-Trump scholar's 'shunning'
BOSTON - How have you been shunned? It’s a question Americans have been playfully pondering since retired Harvard Law professor Alan Dershowitz complained he’s being ostracized on Martha...
Jul 06, 2018
Statue of Liberty climber unrepentant; Trump calls her clown
NEW YORK - An unrepentant protester who climbed the base of the Statue of Liberty on a busy Fourth of July in what prosecutors called a “dangerous stunt” pleaded not guilty on Thursday to ...
Jul 06, 2018

EPA's new chief is former coal lobbyist, Senate staffer
WASHINGTON - The new leader of the Environmental Protection Agency is a former coal industry lobbyist who helped lead an industry fight against regulations that protect Americans’ health and add...
Jul 06, 2018
Trump weighs 2 or 3 candidates for court, to meet with Pence
BERKELEY HEIGHTS, N.J. - Savoring the suspense, President Donald Trump is weighing his choice on a replacement for retiring Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy from the seclusion of his golf club in...
Jul 06, 2018
For a Yazidi woman abducted by IS, a tearful homecoming
BAGHDAD - Farida Khalaf somehow kept her composure as she returned to her devastated home village in northern Iraq for the first time in four years - until she entered the schoolhouse. That was where ...
Jul 06, 2018
UK police race to find source of new nerve agent poisoning
AMESBURY, England - British police scoured sections of Salisbury and Amesbury in southwest England on Friday, searching for a small vial feared to be contaminated with traces of the deadly nerve agent...
Jul 06, 2018

AP Exclusive: Washington psychiatric hospital called 'hell'
SEATTLE - Behind tall brick walls and secure windows, hundreds of patients at Washington state’s largest psychiatric hospital live in conditions that fail U.S. health and safety standards, while...
Jul 06, 2018
Toxic tanneries forced to move pollute new Bangladesh site
SAVAR, Bangladesh - Bangladesh tanneries prepping leather for shoes, belts, wallets and purses are dumping toxic chemicals into a river at a new industrial complex more than a year after the governmen...
Jul 06, 2018