Category Archives: Canadian Press
Crowds honour Bush for long service, from war to White House
WASHINGTON - Soldiers, citizens in wheelchairs and long lines of others on foot wound through the hushed Capitol Rotunda on Tuesday to view George H.W. Bush’s casket and remember a president who...
Dec 04, 2018
Macron caves in to French protesters - too late, they say
PARIS - The French government caved in after Paris’ worst rioting in decades and delayed an increase in energy taxes Tuesday - but it was seen as “too little, too late” by many prote...
Dec 04, 2018
Honduras mother waits for migrant son missing en route to US
SAN PEDRO SULA, Honduras - Haydee Posadas had waited eight years for her son to come home. On the last night of her long vigil, she was too agitated to sleep. Her son had fled Honduras for the U.S. in...
Dec 04, 2018
Boy hits target, convinces town to scrap snowball fight ban
SEVERANCE, Colo. - A 9-year-old boy has convinced the leaders of a small northern Colorado town to overturn a nearly century-old ban on snowball fights, and he already knows who his first target will ...
Dec 04, 2018
Not just a fashion statement: Bush's socks spoke volumes
HOUSTON - President George H.W. Bush said a lot with socks. A visit from friend and fellow former president, Bill Clinton, inspired him to wear a pair emblazoned with Clinton’s face. He wore Hou...
Dec 04, 2018
Diamond smuggling scandal spotlights shadowy Israeli tycoon
TEL AVIV, Israel - A shadowy Israeli billionaire who made his fortune in the insular world of diamonds has suddenly found his empire in jeopardy after close associates were busted in a massive smuggli...
Dec 04, 2018
Should you need to pass a social media check to get a gun?
ALBANY, N.Y. - Should hateful tweets keep you from getting a gun? That’s a question many have asked after suspects in several horrific mass shootings were found only later to have left social me...
Dec 04, 2018
Spain, California family go to trial over disputed Nazi art
LOS ANGELES - Seventy-nine years ago a Jewish woman named Lilly Cassirer surrendered her family’s priceless Camille Pissarro painting to the Nazis in exchange for safe passage out of Nazi German...
Dec 04, 2018
Member of 'Texas 7' gang executed for officer's killing
HUNTSVILLE, Texas - A member of the notorious “Texas 7” gang of escaped prisoners was executed Tuesday evening for the fatal shooting of a suburban Dallas police officer during a Christmas...
Dec 04, 2018
Soldier who tried to help terrorists gets 25-year sentence
HONOLULU - A soldier based in Hawaii was sentenced Tuesday to 25 years in prison for trying to help the Islamic State group. Sgt. 1st Class Ikaika Kang, 35, pleaded guilty in August to four counts of ...
Dec 04, 2018