Category Archives: Canadian Press
US decision would hit families' pocketbooks in El Salvador
SAN SEBASTIAN SALITRILLO, El Salvador - Every two weeks, Flor Tovar receives a lifeline in the form of cash wired from her husband living in the United States. The money pays the $50 rent for her mode...
Jan 10, 2018
17 dead in California mudslides, more than a dozen missing
MONTECITO, Calif. - Anxious family members awaited word on loved ones Wednesday as rescue crews searched grimy debris and ruins for more than a dozen people missing after mudslides in Southern Califor...
Jan 10, 2018
Trump lawyer sues BuzzFeed for publishing Russia dossier
NEW YORK - The longtime personal lawyer for President Donald Trump has filed a defamation lawsuit against BuzzFeed for publishing an unverified dossier of allegations about Trump’s presidential ...
Jan 10, 2018
Veterans behind bars: US jails set aside special cellblocks
ALBANY, N.Y. - The military veterans playing cards in the Albany County jail wear the same orange uniforms as everyone else, with “INMATE” printed down the legs. But their service offers o...
Jan 10, 2018
Students feel safer with police presence in certain Ontario high schools: Study
A program that places police officers in some southern Ontario high schools made students feel safer and helped them build positive relationships with law enforcement, a study released Wednesday concl...
Jan 10, 2018
Woman rejects claim she did $300K in damage to date's art
HOUSTON - A Dallas woman is challenging allegations that she caused at least $300,000 in damage to a prominent Houston attorney’s art collection at the end of their first date. Lindy Lou Layman ...
Jan 10, 2018
Libyan navy says some 100 migrants believed missing at sea
TRIPOLI, Libya - The Libyan navy said on Wednesday that some 100 migrants are missing at sea and feared dead while the coast guard rescued at least 279 others off the coast of Libya. The migrants, mos...
Jan 10, 2018
Israel clamps down on West Bank after Israeli man killed
JERUSALEM - The Israeli military set up roadblocks, cordoned off Palestinian villages and deployed reinforcements to the West Bank on Wednesday, a day after an Israeli settler was killed in a drive-by...
Jan 10, 2018
Iran firm says there may be survivors from tanker crash
TEHRAN, Iran - The Iranian company whose oil tanker burst into flames after a collision in the East China Sea says there is still hope of finding survivors as 31 crew members remain missing and rescue...
Jan 10, 2018
Judge blocks Trump decision to end young immigrant program
SAN FRANCISCO - A federal judge on Tuesday night temporarily blocked the Trump administration’s decision to end a program protecting young immigrants from deportation. U.S. District Judge Willia...
Jan 10, 2018