Category Archives: Canadian Press

15 Guantanamo detainees sent to UAE in major transfer
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti - Fifteen prisoners at the Guantanamo Bay detention centre were sent to the United Arab Emirates in the single largest release of detainees during the Obama administration, the P...
Aug 15, 2016

Obama urges Dems to campaign aggressively for Clinton
CHILMARK, Mass. - Adding a touch of politics to his vacation, President Barack Obama on Monday urged Democrats to campaign aggressively for the next 80 days to elect presidential candidate Hillary Cli...
Aug 15, 2016
Alex Rodriguez says he won't play for any team this season
NEW YORK - Alex Rodriguez says he won’t play again this season. The three-time AL MVP was released Saturday by the New York Yankees, who owed him about $27 million for the rest of his contract, ...
Aug 15, 2016

DC businessman gets 3 months' jail for corrupting elections
WASHINGTON - A District of Columbia businessman who illegally poured more than $3 million into city, state and federal elections - helping a mayor of Washington get elected and then creating a scandal...
Aug 15, 2016
Biden: Trump is 'thoroughly unqualified' for presidency
SCRANTON, Pa. - Vice-President Joe Biden assailed Donald Trump’s ability to lead America at home and abroad on Monday, branding him as indifferent to the needs of Americans in his first campaign...
Aug 15, 2016

Court rejects Cosby's attempt to reseal testimony on affairs
PHILADELPHIA - A federal appeals court on Monday rejected Bill Cosby’s effort to reseal his deposition testimony about extramarital affairs, prescription sedatives and payments to women, saying ...
Aug 15, 2016

Trump to propose political tests for immigrants
JERSEY CITY, N.J. - Donald Trump will declare an end to nation building if elected president, replacing it with what aides described as “foreign policy realism” focused on destroying the I...
Aug 15, 2016

Clinton team hits report of Trump aide's ties to Russia
NEW YORK - Hillary Clinton’s campaign is questioning Donald Trump’s top political aide’s ties to a pro-Kremlin political party in Ukraine, claiming it is evidence of the Republican n...
Aug 15, 2016
Thousands hunker down after Louisiana floods; 6 killed
BATON ROUGE, La. - Thousands of people in southern Louisiana hunkered down in shelters Monday, forced out of their homes by intense flooding that took many people by surprise. The weather had improved...
Aug 15, 2016
Islamic State gets know-nothing recruits and rejoices
PARIS - The jihadi employment form asked the recruits, on a scale of 1 to 3, to rate their knowledge of Islam. And the Islamic State applicants, herded into a hangar somewhere at the Syria-Turkey bord...
Aug 15, 2016