Category Archives: Canadian Press
Statue of Liberty climber unrepentant; Trump calls her clown
NEW YORK - An unrepentant protester who climbed the base of the Statue of Liberty on a busy Fourth of July in what prosecutors called a “dangerous stunt” pleaded not guilty on Thursday to ...
Jul 06, 2018

EPA's new chief is former coal lobbyist, Senate staffer
WASHINGTON - The new leader of the Environmental Protection Agency is a former coal industry lobbyist who helped lead an industry fight against regulations that protect Americans’ health and add...
Jul 06, 2018
Trump weighs 2 or 3 candidates for court, to meet with Pence
BERKELEY HEIGHTS, N.J. - Savoring the suspense, President Donald Trump is weighing his choice on a replacement for retiring Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy from the seclusion of his golf club in...
Jul 06, 2018
For a Yazidi woman abducted by IS, a tearful homecoming
BAGHDAD - Farida Khalaf somehow kept her composure as she returned to her devastated home village in northern Iraq for the first time in four years - until she entered the schoolhouse. That was where ...
Jul 06, 2018
UK police race to find source of new nerve agent poisoning
AMESBURY, England - British police scoured sections of Salisbury and Amesbury in southwest England on Friday, searching for a small vial feared to be contaminated with traces of the deadly nerve agent...
Jul 06, 2018

AP Exclusive: Washington psychiatric hospital called 'hell'
SEATTLE - Behind tall brick walls and secure windows, hundreds of patients at Washington state’s largest psychiatric hospital live in conditions that fail U.S. health and safety standards, while...
Jul 06, 2018
Toxic tanneries forced to move pollute new Bangladesh site
SAVAR, Bangladesh - Bangladesh tanneries prepping leather for shoes, belts, wallets and purses are dumping toxic chemicals into a river at a new industrial complex more than a year after the governmen...
Jul 06, 2018
Hurricane Beryl forms in Atlantic, heads for east Caribbean
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico - The Atlantic season’s first hurricane, Beryl, formed Friday and headed for a weekend push into the eastern Caribbean, threatening islands still struggling to recover from...
Jul 06, 2018
Ex-athletes say Ohio State doc groped, ogled men for years
COLUMBUS, Ohio - On paper, Richard Strauss was a well-regarded Ohio State University physician who examined young athletes for decades as a team doctor and sports-medicine researcher. Some former athl...
Jul 06, 2018

History-making 1986 team frustrated Canada hasn't returned to World Cup
VANCOUVER - Canadian head coach Tony Waiters knew what he wanted when he prepared his team for the 1986 World Cup in Mexico. The players would be fit and well organized. The team would be difficult to...
Jul 06, 2018