Category Archives: Canadian Press
Kavanaugh allegation tests support of GOP women
GREENWOOD VILLAGE, Colo. - For women like Jayne A. Cordes, the steady stream of investigations in Washington is exhausting. That’s why, when Christine Blasey Ford came forward to accuse Supreme ...
Sep 21, 2018

GOP, Kavanaugh accuser in standoff over her Senate testimony
WASHINGTON - A high-stakes standoff between Republicans and the woman accusing Brett Kavanaugh of a three-decade-old sexual attack stretched into the weekend after the Senate Judiciary Committee chair...
Sep 21, 2018
Arizona licenses for non-profit housing migrant kids at risk
PHOENIX - Arizona officials have moved to revoke the licenses for a non-profit that houses immigrant children after it missed a deadline to show that all its employees passed background checks. Texas-...
Sep 21, 2018
Mother of suspected MS-13 victim remembered as 'warrior'
BRENTWOOD, N.Y. - A mother hailed by President Donald Trump for channeling grief over her slain daughter into an anti-gang crusade was memorialized at her funeral Friday as a “warrior,” a ...
Sep 21, 2018

Researchers say they're closing in on Captain Cook's ship
PROVIDENCE, R.I. - Researchers are exploring whether a shipwreck off the coast of Rhode Island could be the vessel that 18th-century explorer Capt. James Cook used to sail around the world. The Rhode ...
Sep 21, 2018
A Kim Jong Un visit to Seoul? It would be surreal challenge
SEOUL, Korea, Republic Of - The spectacle and surprise on display at the three inter-Korean summits this year have been, at times, intense. The fourth one could be surreal - if it happens. Imagine Nor...
Sep 21, 2018

UK leader May hits back on Brexit plan; pound falls
LONDON - British Prime Minister Theresa May accused the European Union on Friday of creating an “impasse” in divorce negotiations by bluntly rejecting her blueprint for Brexit, sending the...
Sep 21, 2018
Africa youth boom on display as Uganda leader faces pop star
KAMPALA, Uganda - Call it a struggle for the soul of the ghetto. Uganda’s longtime president this month went on a whirlwind tour of some of the capital’s poorest slums, handing out checks ...
Sep 21, 2018
Catholic priest in Slovakia challenges celibacy rules
KLAK, Slovakia - A priest in the conservative Roman Catholic stronghold of Slovakia has challenged the church’s celibacy rules, voicing his dissent at a time when clerical celibacy is once again...
Sep 21, 2018
Maldives prepares for polls seen as test for young democracy
MALE, Maldives - As election officials made final preparations for nationwide elections in the Maldives, the European Union said it is not sending observers because the country has failed to meet the ...
Sep 21, 2018