Category Archives: Canadian Press
Pearl Harbor re-burials across the US give families closure
HONOLULU - More than 75 years after nearly 2,400 members of the U.S. military were killed in the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor, some who died on Dec. 7, 1941, are finally being laid to rest in cemet...
Dec 06, 2018
2 US warplanes crash off Japan; 1 crew dead, 5 missing
TOKYO - One of two crew members recovered after two U.S. warplanes collided and crashed off Japan’s coast early Thursday is dead and five others remain missing, the U.S. military said. The Marin...
Dec 06, 2018
Berlin film fest to open with new movie from Lone Scherfig
BERLIN - Organizers of the Berlin International Film Festival say the 2019 event will open with a premiere of Danish director Lone Scherfig’s new movie, “The Kindness of Strangers.” ...
Dec 06, 2018
3 contrasting contenders in Germany vie to succeed Merkel
BERLIN - Three high-profile contenders are vying to lead Angela Merkel’s party as the longtime German chancellor makes way after 18 years for a successor who could shape the European Union’...
Dec 06, 2018
Supreme Court seems likely to keep double jeopardy exception
WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court seemed likely Thursday to preserve a constitutional rule that allows state and federal governments to prosecute someone for the same crime. Several justices expressed co...
Dec 06, 2018
Sean Penn working on documentary on Saudi writer's death
ANKARA, Turkey - A Turkish official says Sean Penn is in Turkey working on a documentary about the slaying of journalist Jamal Khashoggi at the Saudi consulate in Istanbul. Yasin Aktay, an adviser to ...
Dec 06, 2018
Caretaker of neglected, bone-strewn cemetery is arrested
A fuller picture of a cemetery in ghastly disarray emerged Thursday as the longtime caretaker of a graveyard in Connecticut’s largest city was arrested and officials described in new detail shoc...
Dec 06, 2018
Thousands salute Bush funeral train 4141 on final Texas ride
COLLEGE STATION, Texas - Thousands waved and cheered along the route as funeral train No. 4141 - for the 41st president - carried George H.W. Bush’s remains to their final resting place on Thurs...
Dec 06, 2018
Honduran woman in migrant caravan gives birth in US
SAN DIEGO - A Honduran woman affiliated with a caravan of Central American migrants gave birth on U.S. soil shortly after entering the country illegally amid growing frustration about a bottleneck to ...
Dec 06, 2018
Quackarazzi: Mandarin duck holds NYC in its spell
NEW YORK - It took just days for the brightly colored Mandarin duck that appeared suddenly in a Central Park pond to turn both New Yorkers and visitors into a new gaggle: the quackarazzi. A horde of p...
Dec 06, 2018