Category Archives: Canadian Press
Child advocates ask FTC to investigate YouTube
Read carefully through the fine print of YouTube’s terms of service and you might notice that you’ve affirmed you are old enough to watch it. “If you are under 13 years of age, then ...
Apr 09, 2018
Dyed hair, similar builds behind mix-up of Humboldt Broncos bus crash victims
HUMBOLDT, Sask. - One family got the worst news, the other the best. After believing Humboldt Broncos hockey player Parker Tobin had survived the team’s bus crash late last week in Saskatchewan,...
Apr 09, 2018
Trump once fought measure requiring sprinklers in buildings
NEW YORK - The 50th-floor apartment in Trump Tower where a man was killed in a raging fire did not have sprinklers - a requirement Donald Trump once fought as a powerful real estate developer. Todd Br...
Apr 09, 2018
Hungary's pro-migrant groups seen as targets after election
BUDAPEST, Hungary - A day after it won an overwhelming election victory on an anti-migration platform, the right-wing populist party of Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban said it would limit the ab...
Apr 09, 2018
Body suspected to be from California cliff crash found
MENDOCINO, Calif. - A body was recovered Saturday in the vicinity where an SUV plunged off a Northern California cliff last month, killing a family of eight in what authorities suspect may have been a...
Apr 09, 2018
UN, Singapore concerned about rising trade tensions
BEIJING - The U.N. secretary-general and the Singaporean foreign minister voiced concerns about global trade tensions and rising protectionism during back-to-back meetings in Beijing on Sunday. Follow...
Apr 09, 2018
Still popular, Brazil's Lula starts serving jail sentence
CURITIBA, Brazil - Former Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva woke up in jail Sunday as the first current or former president in Brazil’s modern history to be incarcerated, adding a me...
Apr 09, 2018
Pakistan summons US envoy over deadly crash
ISLAMABAD - Pakistan summoned the American ambassador on Sunday to lodge a formal protest after a road crash involving a U.S. Embassy vehicle killed a Pakistani motorcyclist. Ambassador David Hale was...
Apr 09, 2018
Najib heads into tough race with vow to make Malaysia great
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia - Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak unveiled a lavish election manifesto with cash benefits targeting rural ethnic Malays, his key voting bloc, as he faces an unprecedented c...
Apr 09, 2018
Police, fed up with lingering cold weather, 'arrests' winter
DEPEW, N.Y. - An upstate New York police department fed up with lingering cold weather has placed winter under arrest. The Post-Standard reports the Depew Police Department wrote Friday in a humorous ...
Apr 09, 2018