Category Archives: Canadian Press
Does Cohn's exit mark end of Trump's Goldman era?
WASHINGTON - Has President Donald Trump’s romance with the Goldman Sachs crowd gone cold? Top economic adviser Gary Cohn is only the latest Goldman figure to head for the White House exits, sugg...
Mar 9, 2018
State lawmakers, White House talk action on sanctuary cities
DENVER - Four Colorado Republican lawmakers on Thursday brought their ideas to the White House on punishing so-called sanctuary cities, hoping to build on the Trump administration’s lawsuit chal...
Mar 9, 2018
Sunshine State: Florida seeks all-year daylight saving time
PLANTATION, Fla. - Most of the nation springs forward on Sunday, moving clocks up one hour to observe daylight saving time. If Sunshine State legislators get their way, Floridians won’t be falli...
Mar 9, 2018
Watchdog: Western tech used for hacking in Turkey, Syria
PARIS - A Canadian company’s hardware is being used to hack internet users along Turkey’s border with Syria, researchers said Friday, adding that there were signs that Kurdish forces align...
Mar 9, 2018
Tens of thousands protest in Slovakia at journalist's death
PRAGUE, Czech Republic - Tens of thousands of Slovaks rallied in massive anti-government protests across the country on Friday to demand a thorough investigation of the slayings of an investigative re...
Mar 9, 2018
Evictees from SKorea's 1st Olympics recall harsh clearings
BUCHEON, Korea, Republic Of - When South Korea previously held the Olympics in 1988, Kim Paolo and some 150 other poor urban residents spent months that year hiding in huge graves of their own making....
Mar 9, 2018
Former Halifax child prodigy grows up to design self-folding origami robots
HALIFAX - A Halifax-born former child prodigy has proven he can do just about anything with a piece of paper. Erik Demaine, a 37-year-old MIT computer science professor, thinks the technology behind h...
Mar 9, 2018
Nova Scotia judge convicts former Knowledge House CEO, lawyer of fraud
HALIFAX - Two key architects behind a sophisticated multi-million-dollar stock market scheme have been found guilty of manipulating the share price of Knowledge House Inc., nearly 17 years after the H...
Mar 9, 2018
Trump teases big news; it arrives in the dark, on driveway
WASHINGTON - The first inkling that something big was afoot on North Korea came from President Donald Trump himself: He popped his head into the White House briefing room late Thursday afternoon to te...
Mar 9, 2018
Trump says he'll meet with North Korea's Kim Jong Un
WASHINGTON - After months of trading insults and threats of nuclear annihilation, President Donald Trump agreed to meet with North Korean leader Kim Jung Un by the end of May to negotiate an end to Py...
Mar 9, 2018