Category Archives: Canadian Press

CHARLOTTE, N.C. - Authorities in Charlotte tried to quell public anger Wednesday after a police officer shot a black man, but a dusk prayer vigil turned into a second night of violence, with police fi...

MEXICO CITY - Mexican environmental authorities say they have closed seven sawmills operating illegally in the forest reserve that serves as the wintering ground for monarch butterflies that migrate t...

STOCKHOLM - Thirty more countries are expected to formally join the Paris Agreement on climate change this week, greatly improving the pact’s chances of coming into force just a year after it wa...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska - A young black bear led police on a two-hour chase through the streets of downtown Anchorage, Alaska - scurrying down sidewalks and across lanes of traffic and even ducking behind a...

OTTAWA - Calgary Conservative Jason Kenney is officially stepping down as an MP this week. Kenney tweeted a photo of his resignation letter, dated Tuesday, to Speaker Geoff Regan, in which he says he ...

LOS ANGELES - Alexis Arquette died from a heart attack and battled HIV for 29 years, according to her death certificate. The transgender character actress and sibling of actors David, Rosanna, Richmon...

BARNSTABLE, Mass. - Police in Barnstable, Massachusetts, were stumped when a woman from a nearly identically named town in the United Kingdom called to report a car crash. The Boston Globe reports (ht...

LOS ANGELES - For more than a decade, Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt have been a glamorous, globe-trotting Hollywood power couple, attracting cameras to their film projects and philanthropy alike. With ...

TORONTO - Team North America defenceman Aaron Ekblad will miss the rest of the World Cup of Hockey, the team announced on Tuesday. Ekblad missed North America’s 4-3 loss to Russia on Monday nigh...

NEW YORK - In a story and news alert Sept. 20 about the New York-area bombings, The Associated Press erroneously reported how the FBI came in contact with the father of the suspect. The FBI contacted ...