Category Archives: Canadian Press
Chance the Rapper leads concert crowd to Chicago voting site
CHICAGO - Chance the Rapper has led hundreds of people from a concert he headlined through Chicago’s business district and to an early voting site. Chance and other entertainers performed Monday...
Nov 7, 2016
Famous pool-cue maker sentenced in attempted ivory smuggling
LOS ANGELES - A famous custom pool-cue maker has been sentenced to two years of probation for his role in trying to help export protected African elephant ivory to Taiwan. Seventy-five-year-old Cesar ...
Nov 7, 2016
Parts of street collapse in southern Japan city; no injuries
TOKYO - Parts of a main street collapsed in the heart of a major city in southern Japan on Tuesday, creating a massive sinkhole and cutting off power, water and gas supplies to parts of the city. Auth...
Nov 7, 2016
Graham catches 2 TDs, Seahawks hold off Bills 31-25
SEATTLE - Jimmy Graham’s first one-handed catch was special. His second was even better. And that doesn’t even mention his open-field hurdle of a defensive back. Graham needed just one han...
Nov 7, 2016
Australia expects to resettle hundreds of refugees elsewhere
CANBERRA, Australia - Australia will find another country to resettle hundreds of asylum seekers now held on poor Pacific islands, a minister said Tuesday as his government planned to banish for life ...
Nov 7, 2016
As campaign closes, the Obamas pass the torch to Clinton
PHILADELPHIA - In the place where America’s democracy took root, with tens of thousands shivering in the cold, Barack and Michelle Obama passed the torch Monday to Hillary Clinton in an emotiona...
Nov 7, 2016
Statement: Pitt-Jolie children will remain in actress' care
LOS ANGELES - Angelina Jolie Pitt will continue to have sole custody of her six children with Brad Pitt in a joint agreement reached by the actors, a representative for the actress said Monday. The vo...
Nov 7, 2016
Clutterbuck, Ladd score in 3rd as Islanders beat Canucks 4-2
NEW YORK - Andrew Ladd and Jason Chimera scored their first goals with the Islanders and helped New York to a needed victory in a finale of a long stretch of home games. Cal Clutterbuck and Ladd score...
Nov 7, 2016
Madonna plays surprise concert in park for Hillary Clinton
NEW YORK - Madonna belted out some of her biggest hits on Monday night as she treated people in the city to a surprise outdoor concert in support of Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton. Ab...
Nov 7, 2016
Canada's Max Parrot pushes snowboarding envelope in different direction
Quads and triples are sexy in snowboarding, but Maxence Parrot has landed an unprecedented double that could come in handy when Big Air makes its Winter Olympic debut in 2018. Fatigue was setting in f...
Nov 7, 2016