Category Archives: Canadian Press
Canada drops to No. 22 in rugby rankings in wake of weekend loss to Russia
TORONTO - Canada has dropped one spot to No. 22 in the World Rugby rankings in the wake of Saturday’s 43-20 loss to Russia in Ottawa. Russia remained unchanged at No. 19 after registering its fi...
Jun 18, 2018
Hope fading for whale beached in Newfoundland: 'The animal may die here'
HARBOUR GRACE, N.L. - Hope was fading for a beached whale as night fell Monday on a small coastal community in eastern Newfoundland. Wayne Ledwell of Whale Release and Strandings said the adult minke ...
Jun 18, 2018
Supreme Court leaves door open to curbing partisan districts
WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court on Monday allowed electoral maps that were challenged as excessively partisan to remain in place for now, declining to rule on the bigger issue of whether to put limits ...
Jun 18, 2018
Judge cites threat to global community in sentencing Lindhout kidnapper
OTTAWA - A judge has sentenced a Somalian man to 15 years in prison for the kidnapping of Amanda Lindhout, saying hostage-taking is a threat to the international community that deserves significant pu...
Jun 18, 2018
Builder optimism fades with potential trade war looming
NEW YORK - The threat of a trade war with Canada has taken a toll on the confidence of U.S. homebuilders, according to index released Monday. The National Association of Home Builders/Wells Fargo buil...
Jun 18, 2018
Sweden gets benefit of video review, beats South Korea 1-0
NIZHNY NOVGOROD, Russia - Sweden got the break it needed from the video review system, and team captain Andreas Granqvist didn’t waste the chance. Granqvist slid his penalty kick into the bottom...
Jun 18, 2018
James Hansen wishes he wasn't so right about global warming
NEW YORK - James Hansen wishes he was wrong. He wasn’t. NASA’s top climate scientist in 1988, Hansen warned the world on a record hot June day 30 years ago that global warming was here and...
Jun 18, 2018
Warned 30 years ago, global warming 'is in our living room'
SALIDA, Colo. - We were warned. On June 23, 1988, a sultry day in Washington, James Hansen told Congress and the world that global warming wasn’t approaching - it had already arrived. The testim...
Jun 18, 2018
Puerto Rico struggles with jump in asthma cases post-Maria
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico - Shortly after he turned 2, Yadriel Hernandez started struggling to breathe. His doctor prescribed an inhaler and an allergy pill for asthma, and his symptoms were mostly under ...
Jun 18, 2018
AP FACT CHECK: More Trump falsehoods on NKorea, immigration
WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump is exaggerating the achievements of his Singapore summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, claiming the North has destroyed missile launch sites and no longer h...
Jun 18, 2018