Category Archives: Canadian Press

WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump grudgingly signed a $1.3 trillion federal spending measure Friday and averted a midnight government shutdown - but only after undercutting his own negotiators and s...

MANCHESTER, N.H. - Vice-President Mike Pence said Thursday that President Donald Trump’s decision to impose tariffs on goods imported from China was an effort to combat unfair trade practices. S...

PFLUGERVILLE, Texas - The mother of a man who lived with suspected serial bomber Mark Conditt in a home north of Austin says her son was kept in police custody until after Conditt died in a fatal conf...

LOS ANGELES - The storm that drenched California this week brought much-needed rain to the state, which has been slipping back into drought conditions due to a dry winter that only turned wet and snow...

NEW YORK - A New York City firefighter died early Friday battling a fierce blaze on a movie set after getting separated from his fellow firefighters in the thick smoke. The fire started in the cellar ...

Six stories in the news for Friday, March 23 --- BOEING NOT APPEALING ITC DECISION Aircraft giant Boeing will not appeal a ruling by the U.S. International Trade Commission that allows its Canadian ri...

HALIFAX - The author of a study that sounded an alarm over confining Nova Scotians with intellectual disabilities in a psychiatric ward has testified the “incarcerated” residents were deni...

LONGUEUIL, Que. - A Quebec man whose pit bull-type dog mauled a young girl in 2015 was sentenced Friday to four years in jail, with the judge calling his behaviour “gross and extreme negligence....

ATLANTA - Barry Brown Jr. darted into the lane, blowing by everybody in blue, and delivered a rare burst of offence just in the nick of time. He wasn’t done, either. As Kansas State celebrated y...

PITTSBURGH - It was a beautiful day to honour Mister Rogers with a postage stamp. The U.S. Postal Service on Friday released a stamp featuring Fred Rogers, the gentle TV host who entertained and educa...