Category Archives: Canadian Press
The Latest: NHC: Matthew makes landfall in South Carolina
The Latest on Hurricane Matthew (all times local): 11:05 a.m. The National Hurricane Center says Hurricane Matthew has made landfall. The centre said in a news release Saturday morning that the storm&...
Oct 07, 2016
Trump gets softballs at town hall ahead of Clinton showdown
SANDOWN, N.H. - It had the trappings of a town hall debate. There was a moderator. The audience members had questions. There was a two-minute countdown clock for answers. And Donald Trump carried a mi...
Oct 07, 2016
2 Bombs hit train in southwestern Pakistan, killing 6 people
QUETTA, Pakistan - Two bombs struck a passenger train minutes apart in southwest Pakistan on Friday, killing at least six people and wounding 19, officials said. The first bomb exploded on the train a...
Oct 07, 2016
Five stories in the news today, Oct. 7
Five stories in the news for Friday, Oct. 7 --- LATEST JOBS NUMBERS OUT TODAY Canadians will find out today whether August’s robust hiring numbers were a blip on the radar, when Statistics Canad...
Oct 07, 2016
Jean-Francois Lisee elected Parti Quebecois leader on second round
LEVIS, Que. - There will be no Quebec sovereignty referendum for at least another six years if the new Parti Quebecois leader becomes premier in 2018 and stays true to his promise. Jean-Francois Lisee...
Oct 07, 2016
2016 campaign can't shake Bill Clinton's scandals
WASHINGTON - Monica Lewinsky tends to avoid politics these days, after becoming instantly famous nearly 20 years ago as the White House intern who had an affair with President Bill Clinton. Unfortunat...
Oct 07, 2016
Robots? Fat fingers? UK pound endures one of its worst days
LONDON - The British pound endured one of its biggest falls ever on Friday - with some in the markets blaming trading robots or a fat-fingered typo for sending the currency down a precipitous 6 per ce...
Oct 07, 2016
Colorado woman completes 82-mile swim
PHOENIX - A Colorado woman has completed an 82-mile swim across Lake Powell that took her 56 hours. Sarah Thomas of Conifer, Colo., tells The Associated Press she was exhausted and hungry after comple...
Oct 07, 2016
Trump apologizes, but also calls crude remarks a distraction
NEW YORK - Caught on tape making shockingly crude comments about a married woman he tried to seduce, Donald Trump declared in a midnight video, “I was wrong and I apologize.” Yet even as h...
Oct 07, 2016
Hurricane threatens some of South's most storied cities
ST. AUGUSTINE, Fla. - Hurricane Matthew spared Florida’s most heavily populated stretch from a catastrophic blow Friday but threatened some of the South’s most historic and picturesque cit...
Oct 07, 2016