Category Archives: Canadian Press
A protest in Trump Country brings home nation's race divides
ROWLAND, N.C. - They put down their pompoms and lined up along the football field behind their tiny high school in their tiny town. Their classmates marched the American flag onto the field. “Th...
Dec 5, 2017

Girl, 5, dead after school bus crashes into tree in Georgia
GUM BRANCH, Ga. - A school bus driver on her early pick-up route lost control on a dirt road and smashed into a tree Tuesday, killing a 5-year-old girl and sending 21 other children to hospitals. The ...
Dec 5, 2017

UK concert attack might have been stopped, review says
LONDON - The deadly suicide bombing at Manchester Arena might have been prevented if information had been handled differently, an independent review of the counter-terrorism performance by British pol...
Dec 5, 2017
Two-day Gulf summit ends within hours amid Qatar crisis
KUWAIT CITY - A planned two-day summit of Gulf Arab countries fell apart within hours of starting Tuesday over the ongoing boycott of Qatar, underscoring the difficulty of ending the crisis and sugges...
Dec 5, 2017

Saudi strikes rock Yemeni capital after ex-president slain
SANAA, Yemen - Heavy airstrikes by the Saudi-led coalition rocked Yemen’s capital Tuesday, striking Sanaa’s densely populated neighbourhoods in apparent retaliation for the killing of form...
Dec 5, 2017

Kennedy seems conflicted in Supreme Court wedding cake case
WASHINGTON - On a sharply divided Supreme Court, the justice in the middle seemed conflicted Tuesday in the court’s high-stakes consideration of a baker who refused to make a wedding cake for a ...
Dec 5, 2017

Hockey league to improve safety in light of 2013 death of 16-year-old player
HALIFAX - The Quebec Major Junior Hockey League has unveiled extensive changes to player safety protocols, and issued an apology for releasing information “lacking in accuracy,” four years...
Dec 5, 2017

Federal government unveils ads warning of drug-impaired driving dangers
OTTAWA - Ahead of its July deadline for legalizing recreational marijuana use in Canada, the federal government has launched a campaign warning of the risks of drug-impaired driving. Public Safety Min...
Dec 5, 2017
Memoir by Japanese Emperor Hirohito to be auctioned in NY
NEW YORK - A memoir by Japanese Emperor Hirohito (hee-roh-HEE’-toh) that offers his recollections of World War II is predicted to fetch between $100,000 and $150,000 at an auction in New York. T...
Dec 5, 2017

California communities under siege from wind-driven fires
VENTURA, Calif. - Wind-driven fires tore through California communities Tuesday for the second time in two months, leaving hundreds of homes feared lost and uprooting tens of thousands of people. The ...
Dec 5, 2017