Category Archives: Canadian Press
Nagasaki marks 73 years since A-bombing as UN chief attends
TOKYO - Nagasaki marked the anniversary of the world’s second atomic bombing Thursday with the United Nations chief and the city’s mayor urging global leaders to take concrete steps toward...
Aug 09, 2018

Israel faces crocodile conundrum with stranded reptiles
An Israeli businessman appears to have bitten off more than he can chew with plans for a crocodile farm in a West Bank settlement. Hundreds of crocodiles have been stranded at the farm in a remote spo...
Aug 09, 2018

Pussy Riot says member has left Russia, despite ban
MOSCOW - The Pussy Riot punk collective says one of its members has departed for Britain, despite being banned from leaving Russia. Maria Alekhina had said she was turned back by Russian border police...
Aug 09, 2018
For now, Army suspends discharges of immigrant recruits
The U.S. Army has stopped discharging immigrant recruits who enlisted seeking a path to citizenship - at least temporarily. A memo shared with The Associated Press spells out orders to high-ranking Ar...
Aug 09, 2018

Many Canadians are driving high on cannabis, according to new national survey
OTTAWA - A new Statistics Canada survey reveals an “alarming” number of Canadians have driven a vehicle while high on cannabis or have been passengers in such vehicles. According to the se...
Aug 09, 2018
Nevada death-row inmate on legal delays: 'Just get it done'
LAS VEGAS - A Nevada death-row inmate whose execution has been postponed twice said a legal fight over the drugs to be used in his lethal injection is taking a tortuous toll on him and his family and ...
Aug 09, 2018
Anger, tears as families speak at warehouse fire sentencing
OAKLAND, Calif. - Palpable anger, deep sadness and tense moments swept a California courtroom Thursday as relatives of three dozen partygoers who died in a 2016 Oakland warehouse fire testified about ...
Aug 09, 2018
Prosecutors shift focus to fraud charges in Manafort trial
ALEXANDRIA, Va. - After three days of dramatic and sometimes salacious testimony in the trial of Paul Manafort, prosecutors returned Thursday to the nuts and bolts of their case against the former Tru...
Aug 09, 2018
Trump's lawyers respond to latest offer from special counsel
WASHINGTON - Lawyers for President Donald Trump said they have responded to the latest interview proposal from special counsel Robert Mueller, part of a months-long negotiation process over whether an...
Aug 09, 2018
Sons feel mixed emotions after NKorea returns dad's dog tag
WASHINGTON - The lone military identification tag that North Korea provided with 55 boxes of human remains last month belonged to Master Sgt. Charles H. McDaniel, an Army medic from Indiana who was ki...
Aug 09, 2018