Category Archives: Canadian Press

SACRAMENTO, Calif. - A disbarred Harvard University-trained attorney is trying to avoid a life prison sentence with a plea bargain in a kidnapping so elaborate and bizarre that police in California in...

SALT LAKE CITY - A Utah man who mysteriously contracted Zika from his infected father may have got it by touching his dad’s tears or sweat with his bare hands, according to new research that fou...

MULBERRY, Fla. - Neighbours of an unplugged sinkhole sending contaminated water and fertilizer plant waste cascading into Florida’s main drinking-water aquifer are fearful, and fuming that it to...

MADRID - Spain’s leading opposition Socialist party was in crisis Thursday, a day after nearly half of its executive board resigned in a rebellion against leader Pedro Sanchez. The schism comes ...

WASHINGTON - More Americans sought unemployment benefits last week but the number of applications remained low, the latest sign that layoffs are scarce. THE NUMBERS: The Labor Department said Thursday...

SACRAMENTO, Calif. - The emotional stories of women who say they were sexually assaulted more than a decade ago by Bill Cosby prompted California state lawmakers to approve a bill to eliminate the sta...

TEL AVIV, Israel - A Canadian delegation headed by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has arrived in Israel for the state funeral of Shimon Peres, the former Israeli president and prime minister. Trudeau w...

American singer-songwriter Cyndi Lauper has posted a message on her Facebook page voicing her opposition to Montreal’s newly adopted pit bull ban. She calls it a “sad day” and an unj...

TORONTO - It was a refereeing decision that Toronto FC captain Michael Bradley called a “bit of a head-scratcher.” With 20 minutes left in Toronto’s 0-0 tie with Orlando City on Wedn...

FORT ELLIS, N.S. - A protest organizer says Mi’kmaq participants have shifted away from the entrance of a construction site near proposed natural gas storage caverns in Nova Scotia. Cheryl Malon...