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Toronto Blue Jays full of optimism ahead of season opener against visiting Baltimore
TORONTO - The Toronto Blue Jays are brimming with optimism ahead of Thursday's season opener against the Baltimore Orioles. Catcher Alejandro Kirk, fresh from signing a five-year US$58-million contrac...
Mar 26, 2025

Sudan’s army says it has recaptured Khartoum's airport as it seeks to liberate the capital
CAIRO (AP) - Sudan's military says it has retaken the international airport in the capital, Khartoum, after nearly two years of fighting against a notorious paramilitary group. The military says its c...
Mar 26, 2025

Maverick politics and technological pursuits: The Prince Albert connection to Elon Musk
When the roads to Prince Albert were made of gravel and dirt, a recreational pilot parachuted into the community to be its Social Credit Party candidate. Joshua Haldeman, a Regina-based chiropractor a...
Mar 26, 2025

4 American soldiers who went missing in Lithuania have been killed, NATO leader says
WARSAW, Poland (AP) - NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte said Wednesday that four U.S. soldiers who went missing while training in Lithuania have been killed, but that he did not yet know the details. ...
Mar 26, 2025

Strong Democratic performance in Pennsylvania's election is seen as a light in the party's darkness
MANHEIM, Pa. (AP) - Democrat James Andrew Malone narrowly won a special election for a Pennsylvania state Senate seat in a stretch of Republican-leaning suburbs and farming communities, scoring an ups...
Mar 26, 2025

CP NewsAlert: White House says Trump to announce auto tariffs today
WASHINGTON - White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt says U.S. President Donald Trump will announce tariffs on auto imports at 4 p.m. today. More to come. Kelly Geraldine Malone, The Canadian Pre...
Mar 26, 2025

Goalie interference is back in the spotlight as NHL playoff races and emotions about it heat up
Earlier during what is likely to be his third Vezina Trophy-winning season, Connor Hellebuyck pretty much gave up trying to figure out exactly what constitutes goaltender interference. Winnipeg's star...
Mar 26, 2025

Trump asks Supreme Court for OK to cut teacher-training money as part of anti-DEI push
WASHINGTON (AP) - The Trump administration is at the Supreme Court with a new emergency appeal Wednesday, this time seeking approval to go ahead with cuts of hundreds of millions of dollars for teache...
Mar 26, 2025

Trudeau was warned about Trump's trade plans before phone call: briefing note
WASHINGTON - Then-prime minister Justin Trudeau went into his first phone call with a newly re-elected Donald Trump aware that the U.S. president likely was looking to reopen the Canada-U.S.-Mexico Ag...
Mar 26, 2025

Majority of Brazil's Supreme Court panel accepts coup charge against ex-President Bolsonaro
RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) - A majority of a panel of justices of Brazil's Supreme Court has accepted charges against former President Jair Bolsonaro over an alleged attempt to stay in office after his 2022 ...
Mar 26, 2025