Category Archives: Canadian Press

Trump, Pelosi remain far apart on the border wall issue
WASHINGTON - House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has declared that there’ll be no “wall money” in any compromise border security deal as she and President Donald Trump signalled that congress...
Feb 01, 2019
Ayatollah Khomeini's family mostly absent from Iran politics
TEHRAN, Iran - His image is on bank notes and in school textbooks in Iran, often as a black-and-white embodiment of the 1979 Islamic Revolution that swept aside the country’s shah and forever ch...
Feb 01, 2019

US employers add robust 304K jobs in sign of durable economy
WASHINGTON - U.S. employers shrugged off last month’s partial shutdown of the government and engaged in a burst of hiring in January, adding 304,000 jobs, the most in nearly a year. The healthy ...
Feb 01, 2019

Trump suspends arms treaty, citing Chinese, Russian threats
WASHINGTON - The Trump administration is pulling the plug on a decades-old nuclear arms treaty with Russia, lifting what it sees as unreasonable constraints on competing with a resurgent Russia and a ...
Feb 01, 2019
Heaven Can Wait: Back in LA, Rams go for a Hollywood sequel
ATLANTA - Before there was Jared Goff, there was Warren Beatty. Years before Goff or any of today’s Rams were born, Beatty had been carried off on his teammates’ shoulders to celebrate a R...
Feb 01, 2019

'Love ain't easy': Booker brings upbeat vibe to 2020 fight
WASHINGTON - Cory Booker leaped into the 2020 presidential race on Friday with a call for Americans to unite in a time of bitter polarization while some of his Democratic rivals are taking a more comb...
Feb 01, 2019

Georges St-Pierre UFC championship belt on display at Canadian Museum of History
Georges St-Pierre made history in the UFC. Now he is part of the Canadian Museum of History. The museum in Gatineau, Que., has acquired the championship belt the mixed martial arts fighter from Montre...
Feb 01, 2019

Supreme Court restores murder conviction of man who burned girlfriend's body
OTTAWA - The Supreme Court of Canada has restored the second-degree murder conviction of a Halifax-area man who admitted to repeatedly burning his girlfriend’s body but insisted he didn’t ...
Feb 01, 2019

In the news today, Feb. 4
Four stories in the news for Friday, Feb. 4 --- CANADA AND LIMA GROUPS ALLIES TO DISCUSS VENEZUELA CRISIS Canada and its Lima Group allies are meeting in Ottawa today to talk about the political, econ...
Feb 01, 2019

Father of Humboldt Bronco player got apology in tearful meeting with truck driver
MELFORT, Sask. - The father of a player killed in the Humboldt Broncos bus crash says he thinks meeting face-to-face with the truck driver who caused the collision was a powerful moment in both of the...
Feb 01, 2019