Category Archives: Canadian Press

ALBANY, N.Y. - “Sex and the City” star and New York governor’s race candidate Cynthia Nixon has accepted an invitation to participate in a prime-time televised debate with two-time i...

HARRISBURG, Pa. - A judge Monday threw out the most serious counts against a second set of defendants in a Penn State fraternity pledge’s death last year, leaving in place only hazing and alcoho...

CALGARY - Georgia Simmerling has retired from ski cross racing, but intends to continue track cycling with an eye towards the 2020 Olympic Games. Simmerling, from West Vancouver, B.C., helped Canada&#...

VANCOUVER - Two Indigenous leaders from British Columbia say they will travel to pipeline builder Kinder Morgan’s annual general meeting in Texas this week. Chief Judy Wilson with the Neskonlith...

HALIFAX - Police have dropped the case against a young Halifax man alleged to have breached a Nova Scotia freedom-of-information website, shifting the issue squarely back to whether the province had b...

CHICAGO - Lin-Manuel Miranda and the producers of his hit Broadway musical “Hamilton” are bringing an exhibit to Chicago about the musical’s Founding Father namesake. “Hamilton...

NASHVILLE - A man being hailed as a hero for wrestling an assault-style rifle away from a gunman at a Tennessee Waffle House has raised more than a quarter of a million dollars for the victims. James ...

QAMISHLI, Syria - The “Defence of the People” Court is an almost intimate place. Three judges - two men and a woman - sat behind a large desk. The defendant, a former Islamic State group f...

WASHINGTON - U.S. military officials have sought to ward off congressional efforts to address child-on-child sexual assaults on bases, even as they disclose that the problem is larger than previously ...

NORTH BETHESDA, Md. - Chelsea Manning is no longer living as a transgender woman in a male military prison, serving the lengthiest sentence ever for revealing U.S. government secrets. She’s free...