Category Archives: Canadian Press

Case for interest rate hike builds with resilient inflation data: analysts
OTTAWA - The country showed signs of growing price pressures last month with inflation staying strong and its underlying pace grinding higher - both of which propped up expectations that higher intere...
Sep 21, 2018
China treats Uighur kids as 'orphans' after parents seized
ISTANBUL - Every morning, Meripet wakes up to her nightmare: The Chinese government has turned four of her children into orphans, even though she and their father are alive. Meripet and her husband le...
Sep 21, 2018
Iran's domestic car market stalls as nuclear deal falters
TEHRAN, Iran - Across Iran’s capital, rush-hour traffic always grinds to a halt, a sea of boxy Renault four-doors and Peugeot coupes all idling their way through the streets of Tehran. Soon, how...
Sep 21, 2018

Path forward for Kavanaugh could be like Clarence Thomas'
WASHINGTON - When Clarence Thomas arrived at the Supreme Court in 1991 after a bruising confirmation hearing in which his former employee Anita Hill accused him of sexual harassment, fellow justice By...
Sep 21, 2018
Reckoning with loss of homes, livelihoods after Florence
SPRING LAKE, N.C. - With Florence’s floodwaters receding in some places and still menacing others, tired and waterlogged North Carolinians are finally getting a chance to take stock of the destr...
Sep 21, 2018
'He's been there': Trump stumps for vulnerable Sen. Heller
LAS VEGAS - His own political fortunes intrinsically linked to his party holding control of Congress, President Donald Trump on Thursday offered full-throated support for the most vulnerable incumbent...
Sep 21, 2018

Ex-Trump lawyer Cohen boasts of aiding Mueller investigation
WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump’s former personal lawyer says he is providing “critical information” as part of special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into Russian ...
Sep 21, 2018
Mass tourism threatens Croatia's 'Game of Thrones' town
DUBROVNIK, Croatia - Marc van Bloemen has lived in the old town of Dubrovnik, a Croatian citadel widely praised as the jewel of the Adriatic, for decades, since he was a child. He says it used to be a...
Sep 21, 2018
Early voting begins as midterms season enters final phase
MINNEAPOLIS - Much of the political world is consumed with a battle over a Supreme Court nominee, an expanding international trade war and President Donald Trump’s social media posts. Yet in Min...
Sep 21, 2018

AP Analysis: Other nations adjust to 'America first' policy
WASHINGTON - America first? Try America first, second and third. As President Donald Trump prepares for his second U.N. General Assembly, the Olympics of international diplomacy, his administration ha...
Sep 21, 2018