Category Archives: Canadian Press

CANNES, France - The French resort of Cannes has banned full-body, head-covering swimsuits from its beaches, citing security reasons - a measure some are decrying as a discriminatory anti-Muslim move ...

BRASILIA, Brazil - United States eliminated by Sweden in Olympic women’s soccer quarter-final after penalty shoot-out. More coming. The Associated Press 2016 The Canadian Press

WASHINGTON - Hillary Clinton is seizing opportunities presented by a volatile presidential race to expand her base of support heading into the fall, seeking to position the Democratic Party for a swee...

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. - People were “thrown around like little rag dolls” when turbulence rocked a JetBlue flight from Massachusetts to California, a passenger said Friday, in an incident that...

MONTREAL - Former boxing champion Lucian Bute said Friday that a supplement he took to help him sleep and recover from training contained the banned substance Ostarine and led to his positive doping t...

WASHINGTON - It’s the early bird that gets the Cheetos. But it’s the bigger bird that steals it away. Behavioural ecologist Rhea Esposito used the snack food to see how two types of smart ...

ST. JOHN’S, N.L. - Peter Russell has some rocks on his desk from the beach in tiny Ship Harbour, N.L. - the unlikely site of a secretive summit 75 years ago that helped shape the course and afte...

ST. JOHN’S, N.L. - Peter Russell has some rocks on his desk from the beach in tiny Ship Harbour, N.L. - the unlikely site of a secretive summit 75 years ago that helped shape the course and afte...

SCRANTON, Pa. - A former Pennsylvania judge serving a 28-year prison term for a scandal that became known as “kids for cash” is trying to have some of his convictions overturned. Former Lu...

MOSCOW - President Vladimir Putin on Friday abruptly replaced his longtime chief of staff with a low-profile younger aide, the latest in a series of moves by the Russian leader to rid himself of membe...