Category Archives: Canadian Press

WASHINGTON - Steven Mnuchin, President-elect Donald Trump’s expected choice to be the nation’s 77th treasury secretary, has had a long history as a successful financial executive and a sho...

VERBANIA, Italy - Italy’s Emma Morano, the world’s oldest living person, marked her 117th birthday Tuesday, blowing out all the candles on her cake. Beaming at the attention, Morano took i...

BEIJING - Rescuers in northeastern China searched Wednesday for 22 miners trapped underground in the latest accident to befall China’s mining industry. State media reported that Tuesday night...

WASHINGTON - Air conditioning company Carrier Corp. said Tuesday that it had reached a deal with President-elect Donald Trump to keep nearly 1,000 jobs in Indiana. Trump and Vice-President-elect Mike ...

TOPEKA, Kan. - A Topeka man who answered a Craigslist ad to donate sperm so two women could have a baby together is not legally the child’s father and isn’t required to provide financial s...

BATON ROUGE, La. - A settlement agreement Tuesday resolves a federal lawsuit that accuses law enforcement of trampling on the civil rights of protesters in Baton Rouge following a black man’s fa...

HARTFORD, Conn. - A man who sold fentanyl-laced cocaine that killed three people and sent 14 others to the hospital after he overdosed on the same drugs himself was sentenced Tuesday to seven years in...

CHARLESTON, S.C. - Former North Charleston patrolman Michael Slager choked back tears Tuesday, testifying in his own defence that he felt “total fear” when the black motorist he was chasin...

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. - Seven people are facing federal charges after law enforcement authorities on South Dakota’s Pine Ridge Indian Reservation discovered two children so severely malnourished tha...

San Francisco Bay Area health officials warned the public Tuesday to throw out any leftovers from a community Thanksgiving meal they suspect killed three people and sickened at least 14 people. Offici...