Category Archives: Canadian Press
Amid positive talk, some in GOP offer blunt take on taxes
WASHINGTON - Sounding a discordant note among the positive talk on the tax bill, a number of Republicans are delivering a blunt assessment, casting the bill as a boost to big corporations and the weal...
Dec 6, 2017
State lawmakers' outside jobs present possible conflicts
A recent change in Iowa’s tax code spared Mark Chelgren’s machine shop, welding company and wheelchair-parts plant from paying sales tax when buying certain supplies such as saws and cutti...
Dec 6, 2017
Man held in terror plot to kill British prime minister
LONDON - A man has been ordered held Wednesday after being accused in a plot to assassinate Prime Minister Theresa May. Naa’imur Zakariyah Rahman, 20, has been remanded in custody at Westminster...
Dec 6, 2017
Plane nearly lands on runway as another flight departs JFK
NEW YORK - Authorities say a Mexico-based airline’s passenger jet mistakenly lined up to land on a New York City airport runway as another plane was about to take off. The Federal Aviation Admin...
Dec 6, 2017
Los Angeles moves toward legal pot sales milestone
LOS ANGELES - In March, Los Angeles voters endorsed a plan to bring order to the city’s long-unruly marijuana market while clearing the way for recreational sales to begin next year, making L.A....
Dec 6, 2017
Jones seeking support of women in Alabama Senate race
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. - Democratic Senate candidate Doug Jones drew a line between himself and Republican nominee Roy Moore on Wednesday as he sided with women making sexual misconduct allegations against ...
Dec 6, 2017
The red Russian uniforms will be gone, but not the athletes
MOSCOW - The International Olympic Committee has barred the Russian team from competing in Pyeongchang in February over widespread doping at the last edition of the Winter Games in 2014. However, they...
Dec 6, 2017
Patagonia joins lawsuits challenging Trump's monument plans
SALT LAKE CITY - Outdoor retailing giant Patagonia on Wednesday joined a flurry of lawsuits challenging President Donald Trump’s decision to chop up two large national monuments in Utah could fi...
Dec 6, 2017
Model in Britain's sex-and-spy Profumo scandal dies at 75
LONDON - Christine Keeler, the central figure in the sex-and-espionage Profumo scandal that rocked Cold War Britain, has died at 75. Her son, Seymour Platt, posted on Facebook that Keeler died Monday ...
Dec 6, 2017
Nigerian migrants return from Libya with tales of horror
LAGOS, Nigeria - Some knelt and placed their foreheads to the ground in prayer. Several carried small children. After being stranded in Libya on a failed attempt to reach Europe, more than 400 Nigeria...
Dec 6, 2017