Category Archives: Canadian Press

ABUJA, Nigeria - Facing different but equally harrowing crises, parents and educators in the United States and northeast Nigeria are debating similarly drastic measures to improve school safety as a p...

OTTAWA - The ratio of Canadian household debt relative to income edged down slightly in the fourth quarter of last year, raising speculation that the growth in debt may have turned a corner. Statistic...

BOISE, Idaho - Glenn Cox went before the parole board with a plan and a bandage on his forehead. He had already been accepted into a live-in substance abuse treatment centre. For the first time in a l...

BEIRUT - Thousands of civilians streamed out of a town in Syria’s besieged, opposition-held enclave of eastern Ghouta on Thursday, crossing on foot and in pick-up trucks and tractors to governme...

SAN FRANCISCO - The smoke was thick and business brisk at the Barbary Coast Dispensary’s marijuana smoking lounge, a darkened room that resembles a steakhouse or upscale sports tavern with its r...

COLUMBIA, S.C. - The sister of the man sentenced to die for killing nine people at a South Carolina church in 2015 has been arrested at her school and charged with bringing pepper spray, a knife and m...

MOSCOW - Russian President Vladimir Putin met Thursday with young scientists and entrepreneurs, promising to encourage new talent three days before the presidential vote he is certain to win. Putin to...

MY LAI, Vietnam - The shudder of artillery fire woke the boy at 5:30 a.m. Three American soldiers appeared at his family’s home a couple of hours later and forced the mother and five children in...

PYONGYANG, Korea, Democratic People’s Republic Of - Is North Korea’s air force selling canned soup and taxi rides to upgrade its runways and airstrips? Amid the toughest sanctions ever aga...

MANAMA, Bahrain - Iranian naval forces appear to have deliberately halted their provocations of U.S. Navy ships in the Persian Gulf in recent months, a U.S. military official said Thursday. According ...