Category Archives: Canadian Press

OTTAWA - The deadline to enter the Conservative leadership race is still months away, but Peter MacKay said he knows he will have to make up his mind quickly. “Obviously a decision has to be tak...

FOXBOROUGH, Mass. - A Massachusetts town has decided to extend its concert curfew by 15 minutes, just for Bruce Springsteen. The Sun Chronicle (http://bit.ly/2bW0jev ) reports that the Foxborough boar...

WASHINGTON - The man who attempted to assassinate President Ronald Reagan 35 years ago will leave a Washington psychiatric hospital to live full-time in Virginia on Sept. 10, his lawyer said Thursday....

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - A massive fireball and explosion erupted Thursday at SpaceX’s main launch pad, destroying a rocket as well as a satellite that Facebook was counting on to spread internet ...

HALIFAX - A palatial cruise ship described by passengers as a mini, moving city cast an impressive figure on the Halifax waterfront Thursday, breaking port records as thousands of tourists flooded int...

OTTAWA - Canadian families will see their payments slowly erode over time under the Liberal government’s new child benefit program, says Parliament’s budget watchdog. In a report released ...

ATLANTA - Grammy-winning singer Toni Braxton will be honoured at the BMI R&B/Hip-Hop Awards in Atlanta. Braxton will receive the BMI President’s Award on Thursday for her musical achievement...

Beach Boys singer Mike Love has detailed the band’s brief relationship with cult leader Charles Manson in the late 1960s in a new memoir. People magazine reports Love writes that Manson and his ...

WASHINGTON - U.S. productivity fell in the April-June quarter by a larger amount than first estimated, while labour costs accelerated sharply. Productivity declined at an annual rate of 0.6 per cent, ...

ZURICH - Soccer great Franz Beckenbauer is a criminal suspect in a World Cup fraud case. Beckenbauer’s home in Austria was raided for evidence on Thursday on behalf of Swiss federal prosecutors ...