Category Archives: Canadian Press

WASHINGTON - It was one week after the fatal shootings at a Parkland, Florida, high school, and Republican Sen. Marco Rubio was looking to show solidarity with an angry crowd of parents and students i...

WASHINGTON - First, the United States imposed a tax on Chinese steel and aluminum. Then, China counterpunched Monday with tariffs on a host of U.S. products, including apples, pork and ginseng. On Wal...

JOHANNESBURG - Even the name given to Winnie Madikizela-Mandela at birth - Nomzamo, “one who undergoes trials” - foretold a life of struggle. During her nearly 38-year marriage to Nelson M...

WASHINGTON - An agency ethics official at the Environmental Protection Agency says Administrator Scott Pruitt’s lease of a Capitol Hill condo tied to a prominent fossil-fuels lobbyist didn’...

WASHINGTON - The Trump administration says it is amenable to a White House meeting between President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin, raising the prospect of the Russian president...

WASHINGTON - In a story April 3 about President Donald Trump announcing that he wants to use the military to secure the border, The Associated Press reported erroneously the length of the U.S.-Mexico ...

WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump criticized the major television networks on Tuesday as “fakers.” Trump tweeted that the “‘Fakers’ at CNN, NBC, ABC & CBS have done...

BALTIMORE - It was July 2015 when the FBI, scrambling to contain a surge in Islamic State group propaganda, first visited an Egyptian-American newspaper deliveryman in Maryland. Agents needed to ask M...

JERUSALEM - In an abrupt and startling reversal, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu nixed his own deal Tuesday with the United Nations to resettle tens of thousands of African migrants in Israe...

TEL ARBOUSH, Syria - The young men and women in traditional costumes of red, blue and white, the colours of the Assyrian flag, jumped into the middle of the park. With feathers or gold tiaras on their...