Category Archives: Canadian Press
AP FACT CHECK: Trump exaggerates VA gains in veterans speech
WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump is exaggerating the progress he’s made on his campaign promise to provide veterans with quick medical treatment from private doctors if they’re dissatis...
Jul 25, 2018
Homes burn as crews battle separate blazes in California
Homes burned as a fast-moving wildfire forced an entire Southern California mountain town to evacuate Wednesday, while tourists emptied from the heart of Yosemite National Park so firefighters could b...
Jul 25, 2018
Immigrant held after Army base pizza delivery released
NEW YORK - An Ecuadorean immigrant who was held for deportation after delivering pizza to a Brooklyn Army installation walked out of an immigration detention centre house hours after a judge ordered h...
Jul 25, 2018
Thousands affected as Ryanair cabin crews go on strike
MADRID - Cabin crew workers for low-cost airline Ryanair went on strike Wednesday in four European countries over working conditions, forcing tens of thousands of passengers to make last-minute travel...
Jul 25, 2018
Man bites dog: North Koreans eat dog meat to beat the heat
PYONGYANG, Korea, Democratic People’s Republic Of - In North Korea, summer is not a good time to be a dog. With the sizzling heat upon the country, North Korea’s biggest brewery is pumping...
Jul 25, 2018
Judge faults government tracking of separated families
SAN DIEGO - A federal judge on Tuesday criticized the Trump administration’s accounting of hundreds of parents who may have been deported after being separated from their children at the U.S.-Me...
Jul 25, 2018
Was it sexual abuse? Ohio State athletes confront the past
COLUMBUS, Ohio - Looking back, many of the men now realize the medical exams were more than just weird and uncomfortable. Some still aren’t sure what to call it, uncertain whether it meets the d...
Jul 25, 2018
Zimbabwe's top opposition won't boycott vote despite worries
HARARE, Zimbabwe - Zimbabwe’s biggest opposition party won’t boycott Monday’s historic election despite a biased electoral commission that is acting in the interests of President Emm...
Jul 25, 2018
Winning Mega Millions ticket worth $543M sold in California
SAN JOSE, Calif. - California Lottery officials handed over a symbolic $1 million check to the owners of the Northern California liquor store that sold the sole winning ticket to an estimated $543 mil...
Jul 25, 2018
Sergio Marchionne, who saved Fiat and Chrysler, has died
MILAN - Sergio Marchionne, a charismatic and demanding CEO who engineered two long-shot corporate turnarounds to save carmakers Fiat and Chrysler from near-certain failure, died Wednesday. He was 66. ...
Jul 25, 2018