Category Archives: Canadian Press

ATLANTA - Women are not just running for office in record numbers this year - they are winning. More women than ever before have won major party primaries for governor, U.S. Senate and House this year...

NEW YORK - The ranks of forgotten Republicans are growing. Some were forced out, such as Tim Pawlenty, a former two-term Minnesota governor who lost this week’s bid for a political comeback. Som...

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. - A new project is documenting a once-hidden history of LGBTQ people in the Deep South, with donors providing troves of information and items on gay life, systemic oppression and acti...

WASHINGTON - Fishermen off the Alaskan coast. A Florida maker of boat trailers. A building materials distributor in Tennessee. Those and hundreds of other American businesses are delivering the same p...

JERUSALEM - Beverage giant PepsiCo on Monday purchased Israel’s fizzy drink maker SodaStream for $3.2 billion, a boon for a company that has enjoyed a resurgence after being targeted by anti-Isr...

TEHRAN, Iran - Iran’s oil minister said on Monday that France’s oil giant Total SA has officially pulled out of Iran after cancelling its $5 billion, 20-year agreement to develop the count...

ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. - Miss America chairwoman Gretchen Carlson has struck back against the reigning Miss America, saying Cara Mund’s allegations that Carlson and others bullied her have led to a...

PHNOM PENH, Cambodia - An Australian filmmaker in Cambodia facing a possible five to 10 years in prison on a charge of endangering national security testified Monday that he wants to buy land to reset...

SEMBALUN, Indonesia - Multiple strong earthquakes killed at least a dozen people on the Indonesian islands of Lombok and Sumbawa as the region was trying to recover from a temblor earlier this month t...

VATICAN CITY - Pope Francis vowed Monday that “no effort must be spared” to root out priestly sex abuse and coverup from the Catholic Church, but gave no indication that he would take acti...