Category Archives: Canadian Press
Correction: Hungary-Austria-Migrants story
BUDAPEST, Hungary - In a story March 7 about a Hungarian official in Austria, The Associated Press erroneously translated a word in a quote from Janos Lazar, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban̵...
Mar 6, 2018

Nunberg gathering documents and emails as requested
WASHINGTON - One day after loudly and publicly vowing to defy a subpoena, a former Trump campaign aide spent Tuesday digging through his email and compiling documents requested by special counsel Robe...
Mar 6, 2018
Sex abuse cases against Jehovah's Witnesses church settled
SAN DIEGO - Two men who say they were sexually abused by a leader at Jehovah’s Witnesses congregations in San Diego in the 1990s have settled their lawsuits against the church’s governing ...
Mar 6, 2018
Mississippi town to allow gay pride parade, reversing denial
JACKSON, Miss. - Leaders of a Mississippi college town voted Tuesday to permit a gay pride parade, reversing a previous denial and moving to defuse a lawsuit alleging discrimination and free speech vi...
Mar 6, 2018
NAFTA tribunal rules Canada did not violate trade agreement in pulp mill case
NEW YORK - A NAFTA tribunal has ruled against a U.S. pulp company that claimed it was discriminated against by B.C. Hydro and the B.C. Utilities Commission. Mercer International Inc. mounted a $250-mi...
Mar 6, 2018
Canada's men's and women's team earn wins at junior curling championship
ABERDEEN, Scotland - Canadian skips Tyler Tardi and Kaitlyn Jones both earned wins Tuesday to stay in the playoff picture at the World Junior Curling Championships. Tardi and his rink from Langley, B....
Mar 6, 2018
Chicago-based company decides not to reintroduce alcoholic beverage in Quebec
MONTREAL - An American company that produces a sugary, alcoholic drink said Tuesday it has suspended the re-introduction of the product into the Quebec market following reports that a young woman died...
Mar 6, 2018

Judge: Idaho must allow gender changes on birth certificates
BOISE, Idaho - A federal judge says Idaho can’t bar transgender people from changing the sex listed on their birth certificates. In a ruling issued Monday, U.S. Magistrate Judge Candy Dale said ...
Mar 6, 2018

Investor group cancels deal to buy Weinstein Co.
NEW YORK - A group of investors pulled out of a deal to buy the beleaguered Weinstein Co. on Tuesday after discovering tens of millions of dollars in undisclosed debt, according to people familiar wit...
Mar 6, 2018

Weeks after school shooting, band performs at Carnegie Hall
NEW YORK - Three weeks after a gunman killed 17 people at their high school, students from Parkland, Florida, have followed through with a long-planned Carnegie Hall performance. The Marjory Stoneman ...
Mar 6, 2018