Category Archives: Canadian Press
China promises action on US trade deal but gives no details
BEIJING - China issued an upbeat but vague promise Wednesday to carry out a tariff cease-fire with Washington but gave no details that might dispel confusion about what Presidents Xi Jinping and Donal...
Dec 05, 2018
Shelter says starved Great Dane ate own foot to survive
GREENWOOD, S.C. - An animal shelter in South Carolina says it has rescued a starved Great Dane that ate one of his own feet to survive. News outlets report owners 32-year-old Jessica James and 38-year...
Dec 05, 2018
Man says he urinated on Kellogg's cereal conveyor belt
MEMPHIS, Tenn. - A Tennessee man faces up to three years in prison for urinating on a Kellogg’s cereal conveyor belt at a Memphis facility. News outlets report 49-year-old Gregory Stanton pleade...
Dec 05, 2018
Saints owner Gayle Benson pays off $100K in Walmart layaways
New Orleans Saints and Pelicans owner Gayle Benson has paid off nearly $100,000 worth of layaway orders at a New Orleans Walmart. News outlets reported Tuesday that Benson has paid off more than 400 o...
Dec 05, 2018
President Donald Trump to attend Army-Navy game
President Donald Trump will attend Saturday’s Army-Navy Game in Philadelphia. The White House confirmed Trump’s attendance to The Associated Press on Tuesday. Trump also went to the 2016 g...
Dec 05, 2018
AP FACT CHECK: Economists say Trump off on tariffs' impact
WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump promised on Twitter that tariffs would maximize the country’s economic heft and “MAKE AMERICA RICH AGAIN.” Almost all economists say the president...
Dec 05, 2018
With 11 names left, search for wildfire missing winds down
SAN FRANCISCO - The search for people unaccounted for after the deadliest U.S. wildfire in at least a century is winding down in Northern California, with just 11 names left on a fluctuating list that...
Dec 05, 2018
In Brazil backlands, termites built millions of dirt mounds
PALMEIRAS, Brazil - Roy Funch, an American botanist who has lived and worked in Brazil’s hardscrabble northeast for decades, long looked at huge cone-shaped mounds of mud in the distance and won...
Dec 05, 2018
AP source: GOP committee suffers midterm election email hack
WASHINGTON - Thousands of emails were stolen from aides to the National Republican Congressional Committee during the 2018 midterm campaign, a major breach exposing vulnerabilities that have kept cybe...
Dec 05, 2018
A football weekend turns to tragedy for Tennessee all-stars
MEMPHIS, Tenn. - It was a fun and competitive weekend for a young group of all-stars as they visited Texas and represented Memphis, Tennessee, in a weekend football tournament. The players, some ventu...
Dec 05, 2018