Category Archives: Canadian Press

WASHINGTON - The U.S. trade deficit widened in June for the first time in four months as exports fell and imports grew. Politically sensitive trade gaps with China, Mexico and Canada all increased. Th...

WASHINGTON - Employers pulled back on hiring in July, but the job gains were still enough to lower the U.S. unemployment rate a tick to 3.9 per cent from 4 per cent. Employers added 157,000 jobs last ...

NEW YORK - Celebrities abound as Drake strolls through the streets of New Orleans in his “In My Feelings” video. The social media challenge associated with the song is featured in the vide...

NEW YORK - Kamala Harris has been the target of social media misinformation campaigns since she became a U.S. senator. Every month for the last 18 months, her office has discovered on average between ...

Twice in the past year, Brett Kavanaugh offered glimpses of his position on abortion that strongly suggest he would vote to support restrictions if confirmed to the Supreme Court. One was in a dissent...

ALEXANDRIA, Va. - One of Paul Manafort’s tax preparers admitted Friday that she helped disguise $900,000 in foreign income as a loan in order to reduce the former Trump campaign chairman’s...

WILKES-BARRE, Pa. - President Donald Trump is renewing his campaign against the media, claiming at a Pennsylvania rally that the media is the “fake, fake disgusting news” and casting journ...

SINGAPORE - Secretary of State Mike Pompeo says that while there’s “still a ways to go,” the United States remains “confident” in North Korea’s commitment to denucl...

HARARE, Zimbabwe - The two news conferences embodied Zimbabwe’s bitter political divisions: Riot police unsuccessfully tried to scuttle an appearance in a hotel garden by the opposition leader w...

WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump is crediting his tariffs with persuading U.S. Steel to open a half dozen new plants. That’s not so. TRUMP at a Pennsylvania rally Thursday night: “U.S. ...