Category Archives: Canadian Press
China professor missing after radio interview is interrupted
BEIJING - The whereabouts of a Chinese professor known for his critical views of the government remained unknown Friday, two days after police interrupted his radio interview with U.S. government broa...
Aug 03, 2018

Relatives refuse to accept report on missing Malaysian plane
BEIJING - Relatives of Chinese passengers who were aboard missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 said Friday they refuse to accept the latest report on the plane’s disappearance four years ago and...
Aug 03, 2018
Hot, dusty and on fire: Portugal's heatwave breaks records
LISBON, Portugal - Eight places in Portugal broke local temperature records Friday as a wave of heat from North Africa swept across the Iberian peninsula - and officials predicted the scorching temper...
Aug 03, 2018

No meandering permitted in Manafort trial judge's courtroom
WASHINGTON - “I’m not in the theatre business,” Judge T.S. Ellis asserted during jury-selection discussions in Paul Manafort’s financial fraud trial. “You have to be bett...
Aug 03, 2018

White House Mideast team staffing up for peace plan rollout
WASHINGTON - U.S. officials say the Trump administration is staffing up a Middle East policy team at the White House in anticipation of unveiling its long awaited but largely mysterious Israeli-Palest...
Aug 03, 2018

AP FACT CHECK: Fed gov't overstates claims of auto safety
DETROIT - The Trump administration is overstating claims of auto safety and reduced costs in justifying its proposal to weaken Obama-era fuel economy requirements that were aimed at making cars more f...
Aug 03, 2018
Documents: Youth care worker sexually abused immigrant boys
PHOENIX - Federal authorities allege that a former youth care worker at a Phoenix-area facility for immigrant youths sexually abused eight teenage boys, one of several cases brought to light in recent...
Aug 03, 2018
Release of man from jail before murder, rape spurs outrage
HARTFORD, Conn. - Only weeks before a nurse was slain and another woman sexually assaulted on opposite sides of the country, a New York judge released the suspect without bail in a separate strangulat...
Aug 03, 2018
JFK's rocking chair, other iconic memorabilia up for grabs
BOSTON - Some of the most iconic items associated with the late President John F. Kennedy are going on the auction block. Eldred’s auction gallery in East Dennis, on Cape Cod, is taking bids Fri...
Aug 03, 2018

Outgoing UN rights chief: No regrets for speaking up
CAMEROON, Cameroon - The U.N. human rights chief defended his outspoken criticism of abuses in dozens of countries from Myanmar and Hungary to the United States, insisting that his office doesn’...
Aug 03, 2018