Category Archives: Canadian Press

CAIRO - Egypt has created a new high-powered human rights watchdog agency, but its primary mission isn’t to protect Egyptians from violations. Instead, the body is foremost aimed at protecting t...

COLUMBIA, S.C. - Desperate for relief after years of agony, Jim Taft listened intently as his pain management doctor described a medical device that could change his life. It wouldn’t fix the ne...

MELBOURNE, Australia - Formerly conjoined twins from Bhutan were released from an Australian hospital on Monday more than two weeks after they were separated in a delicate surgery. The 15-month-old gi...

TAIPEI, Taiwan - The driver of a Taiwanese train involved in a fatal derailment last month had disengaged his train’s speed governor just before entering a turn at almost twice the recommended s...

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina - Argentina had hoped to show off its newly market-friendly economy to the world when the G-20 group of the world’s top economies begins its first South American summit t...

WASHINGTON - Call it the chaos theory for picking the next House speaker. Those Democrats trying to stop California Rep. Nancy Pelosi from reclaiming the job say they don’t need a rival candidat...

BEIJING - A strong showing by Taiwan’s opposition Nationalist Party in local elections over the weekend presents a major challenge to independence-leaning President Tsai Ing-wen as she grapples ...

TUPELO, Miss. - President Donald Trump brought back the playbook he used during the leadup to the midterm elections, warning of the dangers of illegal immigration and painting Democrats as radical ...

WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump is wrong when he suggests global warming can’t be happening if it’s really cold outside. He points to a “brutal and extended cold blast” in ...

CHICAGO - In a Nov. 26 story, The Associated Press reported that 123 flights were cancelled Sunday at Midway International Airport and another 71 had been cancelled as of midnight. The story should ha...