Category Archives: Canadian Press
Jean-Francois Lisee elected Parti Quebecois leader on second round
LEVIS, Que. - There will be no Quebec sovereignty referendum for at least another six years if the new Parti Quebecois leader becomes premier in 2018 and stays true to his promise. Jean-Francois Lisee...
Oct 07, 2016
2016 campaign can't shake Bill Clinton's scandals
WASHINGTON - Monica Lewinsky tends to avoid politics these days, after becoming instantly famous nearly 20 years ago as the White House intern who had an affair with President Bill Clinton. Unfortunat...
Oct 07, 2016
Robots? Fat fingers? UK pound endures one of its worst days
LONDON - The British pound endured one of its biggest falls ever on Friday - with some in the markets blaming trading robots or a fat-fingered typo for sending the currency down a precipitous 6 per ce...
Oct 07, 2016
Colorado woman completes 82-mile swim
PHOENIX - A Colorado woman has completed an 82-mile swim across Lake Powell that took her 56 hours. Sarah Thomas of Conifer, Colo., tells The Associated Press she was exhausted and hungry after comple...
Oct 07, 2016
Trump apologizes, but also calls crude remarks a distraction
NEW YORK - Caught on tape making shockingly crude comments about a married woman he tried to seduce, Donald Trump declared in a midnight video, “I was wrong and I apologize.” Yet even as h...
Oct 07, 2016
Hurricane threatens some of South's most storied cities
ST. AUGUSTINE, Fla. - Hurricane Matthew spared Florida’s most heavily populated stretch from a catastrophic blow Friday but threatened some of the South’s most historic and picturesque cit...
Oct 07, 2016
'Budgie 9' man leaves Malaysia and urges cultural awareness
CANBERRA, Australia - One of nine Australians who spent four nights in police detention in Malaysia for partying in skimpy swimsuits printed with the Malaysian flag returned to Australia on Friday and...
Oct 07, 2016
Chemical weapon for sale: China's unregulated narcotic
SHANGHAI - For a few thousand dollars, Chinese companies offer to export a powerful chemical that has been killing unsuspecting drug users and is so lethal that it presents a potential terrorism threa...
Oct 07, 2016
Scores and Schedule
Thursday’s Games American League Division Series Toronto 10 Texas 1 (Toronto leads best-of-five series 1-0) Cleveland 5 Boston 4 (Cleveland leads best-of-five series 1-0) — NFL Arizona 33 ...
Oct 06, 2016
Thursday's Games
Thursday’s Games American League Division Series Toronto 10 Texas 1 (Toronto leads best-of-five series 1-0) Cleveland 5 Boston 4 (Cleveland leads best-of-five series 1-0) — NFL Arizona 33 ...
Oct 06, 2016