Category Archives: Canadian Press
Gay couple sues US for denying citizenship to 1 twin son
LOS ANGELES - Ethan and Aiden Dvash-Banks are toddler twins who share almost everything: the same toys, the same nursery, the same clothes and the same parents. Everything but a toothbrush and U.S. ci...
Jan 23, 2018
Mexico's Teotihuacan ruins may have been "Teohuacan"
MEXICO CITY - Spanish chroniclers may have altered the name of the pre-Hispanic city of Teotihuacan to erase its importance as a place of governance, Mexican experts said Tuesday. The Aztecs may have ...
Jan 23, 2018
Duckworth to be first sitting US senator to give birth
WASHINGTON - Illinois Sen. Tammy Duckworth is pregnant with her second child. She will be the first U.S. senator to give birth while in office. The 49-year-old Democrat, a veteran who lost her legs in...
Jan 23, 2018
Chilean poet, physicist Nicanor Parra dies at 103
SANTIAGO, Chile - Nicanor Parra, a Chilean physicist, mathematician and self-described “anti-poet” whose eccentric writings won him a leading place in Latin American literature, died Tuesd...
Jan 23, 2018
What shutdown? Frustrated voters shrug as pols point fingers
NEW YORK - What if they shut down the government and no one cared? On the ground in communities across America, many voters barely noticed the latest spasm of dysfunction in Washington. Those who did ...
Jan 23, 2018
Sheriff: Remains of 5 missing gas rig workers recovered
OKLAHOMA CITY - Officials on Tuesday recovered the remains of five gas rig workers who had been missing since a fiery explosion in eastern Oklahoma a day earlier. Pittsburg County Sheriff Chris Morris...
Jan 23, 2018
US pulled multiple ways in Syria as Islamic State recedes
WASHINGTON - For the last few years, the United States could neatly sum its objective in Syria in a single, uncontroversial bullet point: fighting the Islamic State group. Now that the extremists have...
Jan 23, 2018
San Francisco swaps Columbus Day for Indigenous Peoples Day
San Francisco supervisors have replaced Columbus Day with Indigenous Peoples Day, saying they want to honour Native American people and condemn the atrocities they suffered. Los Angeles and Minneapoli...
Jan 23, 2018
Ursula K. Le Guin, bestselling science fiction author, dies
PORTLAND, Ore. - Ursula K. Le Guin, the award-winning science fiction and fantasy writer who explored feminist themes and was best known for her Earthsea books, has died at 88. Le Guin died suddenly a...
Jan 23, 2018
Fresh voices lead the way in Oscar nominations
NEW YORK - The Academy Awards showered outsiders, on screen and off, with milestone-setting nominations that celebrated Guillermo del Toro’s full-hearted ode to outcasts “The Shape of Wate...
Jan 23, 2018