Category Archives: Canadian Press
Nearly 4 years on, much of Syrian rebel 'capital' abandoned
HOMS, Syria - Sumaya Bairuty walked through abandoned streets pocked with shell craters amid rows of destroyed buildings, at times climbing over giant sand barriers before reaching her parent’s ...
Jan 17, 2018
GOP still struggling with Trump's remarks on Africa
WASHINGTON - Republicans are struggling to get their stories straight as President Donald Trump’s Homeland Security secretary became the latest GOP official to offer an inconclusive version of a...
Jan 17, 2018
Mueller team would hardly be first lawyers to question Trump
WASHINGTON - Donald Trump was in a roomful of lawyers, venting about unfair treatment in the media that he said had understated his net worth and damaged his brand. It was December 2007, a decade befo...
Jan 17, 2018
Pope has tough words for indigenous, Chile during Mass
TEMUCO, Chile - Pope Francis took the Chilean state and the country’s largest indigenous group to task Wednesday over their failure to forge a truly unified nation, saying the government must do...
Jan 17, 2018
Meteor credited for bright light, noise rattling Michigan
DETROIT - Experts say a bright light and what sounded like thunder in the sky above Michigan was a meteor. The American Meteor Society says it received hundreds of reports of a fireball Tuesday night ...
Jan 17, 2018
Walmart offers way to turn leftover opioids into useless gel
Walmart is helping customers get rid of leftover opioids by giving them packets that turn the addictive painkillers into a useless gel. The retail giant announced Wednesday that it will provide the pa...
Jan 17, 2018
Arizona's GOP senators denounce Trump attacks on news media
WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump’s use of the terms “fake news” and “enemy of the people” is “shameful” and reminiscent of words infamously used by Soviet ...
Jan 17, 2018
Young Hong Kong activist Wong gets second prison term
HONG KONG - A Hong Kong court sentenced democracy activist Joshua Wong to three months in prison Wednesday for contempt, his second prison term stemming from his role in the 2014 “Umbrella Movem...
Jan 17, 2018
Canada-US women's group created by Trudeau, Trump issues first proposals
WASHINGTON - A Canada-U.S. women-in-business group created by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and U.S. President Donald Trump released its first set of recommendations Wednesday, proposing more affordab...
Jan 17, 2018
Argentines try to understand why the pope won't return home
SANTIAGO, Chile - Pope Francis has flown over the massive Andes cordillera, visited the poor in several slums and rubbed shoulders with presidents in six visits to Latin America. But in five years as ...
Jan 17, 2018