Category Archives: Canadian Press
New Jersey eyes cutting horse tracks in on internet gambling
TRENTON, N.J. - New Jersey lawmakers want to give the state’s horse racing tracks a piece of the action on internet gambling. The state Assembly is due to vote Thursday on a bill that would auth...
Dec 7, 2017

Russia PM: State will never admit "false" doping charges
MOSCOW - Russia Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev says the state will never acknowledge the accusation of state-sponsored doping that prevents the Russia team from competing at the Pyeongchang Olympics b...
Dec 7, 2017

Super big black hole from early universe farthest ever found
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - Astronomers have discovered a super-size black hole harkening back to almost the dawn of creation. It’s the farthest black hole ever found. A team led by the Carnegie Obse...
Dec 7, 2017

Powerful allies moulded Trump's view on Jerusalem
WASHINGTON - Nearly two years ago, novice presidential candidate Donald Trump was booed by a group of influential Jewish Republicans when he punted a question about whether he backed Jerusalem as Isra...
Dec 7, 2017

FBI director defends his agency against Trump's attacks
WASHINGTON - Countering strident attacks on his agency from the president who appointed him, FBI Director Christopher Wray on Thursday defended the tens of thousands of people who work with him and de...
Dec 7, 2017

Queen Elizabeth commissions aircraft carrier with her name
LONDON - Queen Elizabeth II has attended the commissioning ceremony of Britain’s new aircraft carrier, which is named after the monarch. The 91-year-old queen boarded the Royal Navy’s newe...
Dec 7, 2017

Keillor: Radio station fired me without full investigation
MINNEAPOLIS - Garrison Keillor says Minnesota Public Radio was wrong to fire him last week without fully investigating what a senior executive has described as “multiple allegations” spann...
Dec 7, 2017
Sex assault trial starts more than a year after complainant's death
BARRIE, Ont. - Kassidi Coyle took her own life before she could testify against the man she accused of sexually assaulting her, but statements the Ontario woman made to friends and police shortly afte...
Dec 7, 2017

Tkachuk banned 1 game for spearing; Babcock calls incident 'junior hockey stuff'
TORONTO - Matthew Tkachuk’s teammates on the Calgary Flames would like him to cut out the needless suspensions, but don’t want any change in his gritty, high-skilled game. Tkachuk was susp...
Dec 7, 2017
Gay man denied marriage license hopes to unseat county clerk
MOREHEAD, Ky. - David Ermold returned to the Rowan County courthouse Wednesday, nearly two years after Clerk Kim Davis refused to give him a marriage license because he was gay. Only this time, he did...
Dec 7, 2017