Category Archives: Canadian Press

CANBERRA, Australia - A 14-year-old girl who was the angelic face of an iconic Australian bushmen’s hat brand was remembered by hundreds of mourners Friday after her suicide focused attention on...

PHILADELPHIA - Jurors couldn’t agree the first time around whether to accept a woman’s story that “America’s Dad,” Bill Cosby, sexually assaulted her over a decade ago. N...

HARTFORD, Conn. - A Connecticut man charged with hacking into more than 250 iCloud accounts of Hollywood stars and ordinary people has agreed to plead guilty, federal prosecutors said Thursday. The ch...

PORT HAWKESBURY, N.S. - A Cape Breton mayor wants the island’s traditional Mi'kmaq name added to the iconic sign welcoming visitors to the island. The updated sign on bridge linking the island t...

BALTIMORE - Nearly 50 people have fallen sick on a cruise ship that departed from Baltimore last week, delaying its return. Royal Caribbean Cruises spokesman Owen Torres told The Baltimore Sun the Gra...

WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump on Friday offered a partial denial in public but privately defended his extraordinary remarks disparaging Haitians and African countries a day earlier. Trump said h...

MONTECITO, Calif. - Most residents of mudslide-ravaged Montecito were under orders to clear out Friday as the search for victims dragged on and crews laboured to clean up massive debris and repair pow...

JOHANNESBURG - Africans were shocked on Friday to find President Donald Trump had finally taken an interest in their continent. But it wasn’t what people had hoped for. Using vulgar language, Tr...

HALIFAX - A culture of silence and shame allowed the abuse of orphans to persist for decades at the Nova Scotia Home for Colored Children, according to a new report that calls for a province-wide reck...

NEW ORLEANS - Actor Keegan-Michael Key of Comedy Central’s sketch comedy series “Key & Peele” will lead the Krewe of Orpheus parade for the 2018 Mardi Gras season. Key joins a lo...