Category Archives: Canadian Press

Canadian swimmer Kylie Masse captures gold at Pan Pacific Championships
TOKYO - Kylie Masse is back on top of the podium at a major international event. The swimmer from Windsor, Ont., captured gold in the 100-metre backstroke on Friday at the Pan Pacific Championships, h...
Aug 10, 2018

Appeals court tells EPA to stop sales of harmful pesticide
WASHINGTON - A federal appeals court has ruled that the Trump administration endangered public health by keeping a widely used pesticide on the market despite extensive scientific evidence that even t...
Aug 10, 2018
Banker: Chairman OK'd Manafort loans, eyed Trump cabinet job
ALEXANDRIA, Va. - A New York bank executive testified Friday that Paul Manafort received more than $16 million in loans after the bank’s chairman expressed interest in joining Donald Trump’...
Aug 10, 2018
Democrats' hopes to take House could stumble in Minnesota
WATERVILLE, Minn. - For all the talk of a blue wave sweeping Democrats back into the House majority this fall, their efforts could be thwarted in one of the nation’s bluest states. Voters in the...
Aug 10, 2018

Kanye West silent about whether Trump cares for blacks
LOS ANGELES - Kanye West was silent when it comes to whether he thinks President Donald Trump cares for black people. West appeared on ABC’s “Jimmy Kimmel Live ” on Thursday. West di...
Aug 10, 2018
In northeast India, the politics of citizenship flares anew
MAYONG, India - The rice farmer doesn’t know how it happened. Abdul Mannan just knows a mistake was made somewhere. But what can you say when the authorities suddenly insist one of your five chi...
Aug 10, 2018

Russian PM strongly warns US against ramping up sanctions
MOSCOW - Russia’s prime minister sternly warned the United States against ramping up sanctions, saying Friday that Moscow would retaliate with economic, political and unspecified “other...
Aug 10, 2018
Yemen's Shiite rebels welcome UN call for Saudi strike probe
SANAA, Yemen - Yemen’s Shiite rebels on Friday backed a U.N. call for a probe into a Saudi-led coalition airstrike in the country’s north that killed dozens of people the previous day, inc...
Aug 10, 2018
Violence erupts amid Gaza cease-fire, 2 Palestinians killed
JERUSALEM - Violence erupted at the Gaza border Friday after the territory’s militant Islamic Hamas rulers and Israel appeared to be honouring a cease-fire that ended two days of intense violenc...
Aug 10, 2018
'Hidden Figures' women could be awarded congressional medal
HAMPTON, Va. - The U.S. Senate may award a Congressional Gold Medal to the women portrayed in the 2016 film “Hidden Figures.” The Daily Press reported Wednesday that the award would go to ...
Aug 10, 2018