Category Archives: Canadian Press
US home construction rose last month, led by apartments
WASHINGTON - U.S. developers broke ground on more homes last month, but the increase occurred entirely in apartments. The construction of new single-family houses fell. The Commerce Department said Tu...
Dec 18, 2018
For Trump, the economy is a potential 2020 storm cloud
WASHINGTON - Forget Robert Mueller. The greatest threat to President Donald Trump’s re-election bid may not be the slew of investigations closing in on his Oval Office but a possible economic sl...
Dec 18, 2018
Chinese internment camp factory sends sportswear to US
HOTAN, China - Barbed wire and hundreds of cameras ring a massive compound of more than 30 dormitories, schools, warehouses and workshops in China’s far west. Dozens of armed officers and a grow...
Dec 18, 2018
Judge delays Flynn sentencing, 'not hiding disgust' at crime
WASHINGTON - A federal judge Tuesday abruptly postponed the sentencing of President Donald Trump’s first national security adviser, Michael Flynn, declaring himself disgusted and disdainful of F...
Dec 18, 2018
Shutdown talk recedes after White House eases wall threat
WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump and leaders in Congress appeared to be pulling back Tuesday from a government shutdown over his $5 billion request for border wall funds, with the first signs of mo...
Dec 18, 2018
Judges push back against 'zero-tolerance' immigration policy
SAN DIEGO - The 14 defendants had been charged with entering the country illegally. But there was a problem: When their cases were called in court, they could not show up because they had already been...
Dec 18, 2018
Former Trump adviser settles suit over false info on website
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. - Roger Stone, a former campaign adviser to Donald Trump, has settled a $100 million lawsuit accusing him of publishing false information on the InfoWars website. The Wall Street...
Dec 18, 2018
Trump signs order to create US Space Command
WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump launched the Pentagon’s new Space Command Tuesday, an effort to better organize and advance the military’s vast operations in space that could cost as m...
Dec 18, 2018
In 2019, Mideast economic troubles loom as wars wind down
AMMAN, Jordan - As the Middle East ushers in 2019, the decade’s ruinous conflicts in Syria, Yemen, Libya and Iraq seem to be winding down after exacting a painful price - many thousands killed, ...
Dec 18, 2018
Good boy! Service dog gets honorary diploma
ALBANY, N.Y. - Whenever Brittany Hawley went to class, her loyal service dog Griffin was there. If she needed her cellphone, Griffin would fetch it. Even when she assisted patients as part of an inter...
Dec 18, 2018