Category Archives: Canadian Press
AP source: Bag may have hit fuel switch before chopper crash
NEW YORK - A pilot who survived a helicopter crash that killed his five passengers told authorities he believed a passenger’s bag might have hit an emergency fuel shutoff switch in the moments b...
Mar 12, 2018
Calm before the storm? North Korea still mum on Trump summit
TOKYO - News of the planned summit between President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un sent shockwaves around the globe. But in North Korea - as of Monday, several days after the announ...
Mar 12, 2018
Francis at 5: Paradigm shift in mercy, migrants and marriage
VATICAN CITY - Whenever Pope Francis visits prisons, during his whirlwind trips to the world’s peripheries or at a nearby jailhouse in Rome, he always tells inmates that he, too, could have ende...
Mar 12, 2018
2 families hit with Austin package bombs knew each other
AUSTIN, Texas - Two of the families hit with package bombs left on Austin doorsteps knew each other and were connected through local activism in the black community, a civic leader said Tuesday, but i...
Mar 12, 2018
Dallas-bound flight makes emergency landing in Albuquerque
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - A Dallas-bound flight made an emergency landing at Albuquerque International Sunport, sending panicked passengers leaping from a wing onto the tarmac after crew members screamed at...
Mar 12, 2018
Xi Jinping's rise shatters hopes for democracy in China
BEIJING - Orville Schell, a longtime China expert, has vivid memories of his first trip to the country back in 1975. Mao Zedong was leading China through the tumultuous Cultural Revolution, and Chines...
Mar 12, 2018
Testimony begins at trial of young woman charged in New Brunswick man's murder
MONCTON, N.B. - The murder trial of a young Moncton woman has been told the teenage victim was found dead in a burned home with “numerous injuries.” RCMP forensic investigator Cpl. Patrick...
Mar 12, 2018
Wisconsin tourism officials launch new ad campaign
MADISON, Wis. - Wisconsin tourism officials are launching a new television ad campaign spotlighting a wheelchair basketball star and the state’s German heritage. One ad features Matt Scott, a Pa...
Mar 12, 2018
Rumours, mistrust hinder Brazil yellow fever vaccine campaign
SAO PAULO - Elisangela Santos doesn’t understand why everyone in her neighbourhood on the outskirts of Sao Paulo is being told to get vaccinated for yellow fever this year. Yellow fever has long...
Mar 12, 2018
Pa. House election hits final day of campaign in close race
CANONSBURG, Pa. - The final day of campaigning Monday before votes are cast in western Pennsylvania’s closely watched congressional election drew a visit by Donald Trump Jr. and lots of door-kno...
Mar 12, 2018