Category Archives: Canadian Press
Human rights an afterthought ahead of US-North Korea summit
WASHINGTON - Ahead of a planned summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, President Donald Trump’s focus has been on stagecraft, the will-they-or-won’t-they drama and visions of a legac...
May 24, 2018
Dem, GOP leaders get classified briefings on Russia probe
WASHINGTON - Republican and Democratic lawmakers huddled Thursday in classified briefings about the origins of the FBI investigation into Russia’s meddling in the 2016 presidential election, a h...
May 24, 2018
Trump: No immigration deal unless 'real wall,' good security
WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump says he opposes any immigration legislation that doesn’t include “a real wall” along the Mexican border and “very strong border security,...
May 24, 2018
Chaos of Las Vegas shooting promoted fears of wider attack
LAS VEGAS - Gunshots came so rapidly during the deadliest mass shooting in the nation’s modern history that one Las Vegas police officer feared he was facing a fully stocked assault team with ta...
May 24, 2018
Lava from Hawaii volcano enters ocean from 3 flows
HONOLULU - Lava entered the ocean from a third flow, marking the third week of a Hawaii volcano eruption that has opened up nearly two dozen vents in rural communities, destroyed dozens of buildings a...
May 24, 2018
Trump suggests NFL players who kneel shouldn't be in US
WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump praised an NFL policy banning kneeling during the “The Star-Spangled Banner,” saying that “maybe you shouldn’t be in the country” if y...
May 24, 2018
George Zimmerman tells court he's $2.5 million in debt
SANFORD, Fla. - The ex-neighbourhood watch volunteer who killed a black teen in Florida in 2012 says he’s $2.5 million in debt and has no income. George Zimmerman filed paperwork detailing his f...
May 24, 2018
Olynyk, Powell among coaching staff for India Basketball Without Borders camp
NEW YORK - Canadians Kelly Olynyk and Dwight Powell highlight the coaching staff for the NBA’s second Basketball Without Borders camp in India. Olynyk, a centre for the Miami Heat, and...
May 24, 2018
Dismay, disbelief after late-May Newfoundland snowstorm: 'Why? Why? Why?'
GANDER, N.L. - A late-spring storm that buried cars in snow and closed a slew of schools in Newfoundland was prompting dismay - and disbelief - from residents along the island’s northeast coast ...
May 24, 2018
How'd they do that? A look at how the Vegas Golden Knights were built
Jonathan Marchessault, and how he found his way to Vegas, might be the epitome of how the Golden Knights forged their improbable run to the Stanley Cup final. After the&n...
May 24, 2018