Category Archives: Canadian Press
CIA says it won't confirm it has documents about Yemen raid
NEW YORK - A U.S. government lawyer argued on Tuesday that even just confirming or denying that the CIA has records about a January raid in Yemen would reveal intelligence secrets. The raid resulted i...
Dec 19, 2017
Long-term wildfire evacuees face holidays away from home
LOS ANGELES - Ray and Curry Sawyer’s Christmas tree is up, still waiting for their grandkids to decorate it. The presents are hidden away in closets, waiting to be wrapped, the ingredients for g...
Dec 19, 2017
US urges UN to punish Iran, but Russia says no sanctions
U.S. Ambassador Nikki Haley urged the Security Council on Tuesday to punish Iran for what the Trump administration calls its “dangerous violations” of U.N. resolutions and “destabili...
Dec 19, 2017
2 top US officials pledge more help for Puerto Rico
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico - Two U.S. Cabinet secretaries visited Puerto Rico on Tuesday and promised to speed up recovery efforts and increase federal assistance for an island struggling nearly three mont...
Dec 19, 2017
US short of options to punish NKorea for serious cyberattack
WASHINGTON - The Trump administration vowed Tuesday that North Korea would be held accountable for a May cyberattack that affected 150 countries, but it didn’t say how, highlighting the difficul...
Dec 19, 2017
Immigrant rights group sues ICE over Somali deportation bid
MIAMI - A lawsuit accuses U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement of keeping 92 Somali men and women in inhumane conditions during a failed bid to deport them earlier this month. The University of Mi...
Dec 19, 2017
Mom of Charlottesville victim to speak at street dedication
Just over four months after a young Charlottesville woman was killed when a car plowed into people protesting a white nationalist rally, the Virginia city will dedicate part of the street where she wa...
Dec 19, 2017
House member offices paid $342k in settlements over 4 years
WASHINGTON - Newly-released statistics show taxpayers paid more than $342,000 to settle workplace discrimination disputes at House lawmakers’ offices between 2008 and 2012, including nearly $175...
Dec 19, 2017
Amtrak didn't wait for system that could've prevented wreck
The rush to launch service on a new, faster Amtrak route near Seattle came at a deadly cost - critical speed-control technology that could have prevented a derailment was not active before the train s...
Dec 19, 2017
Baby bongo born, more likely soon at Species Survival Center
NEW ORLEANS - A bouncing baby bongo has been born in New Orleans. The 46-pound female is from a critically endangered antelope subspecies. It’s the first calf conceived at the Species Survival C...
Dec 19, 2017