Category Archives: Canadian Press

WASHINGTON - U.S. wholesale prices edged up just 0.1 per cent in April, held down by a big drop in food costs. It was the smallest gain in four months. The April increase in the Labor Department’...

LOS ANGELES - Meghan Markle’s road to royalty ran through Hollywood. The American actress set to marry Prince Harry May 19 spent her formative years in the Los Angeles neighbourhood of Hollywood...

OTTAWA - Mobile phones in Atlantic Canada buzzed and squealed Wednesday as more tests were conducted on Canada's new emergency alert system, but glitches appeared to continue in Western Canada, where&...

TORONTO - The first day of Ontario’s election campaign saw the Liberal premier venture into the heart of Doug Ford’s suburban territory to squarely take aim at her Tory rival, while he tri...

CANNES, France - Iranian filmmaker Asghar Farhadi has called on the Iranian government to allow his countryman and fellow director Jafar Panahi to attend the Cannes Film Festival. Panahi has been barr...

BOSTON - Former New England Mafia boss Francis “Cadillac Frank” Salemme has been “no angel” but played no role in the 1993 killing of a nightclub owner, the aging’s mobst...

WASHINGTON - Freed after more than a year in prison, three Americans flew homeward from North Korea late Wednesday toward a big middle-of-the-night celebration featuring President Donald Trump - the l...

LOS ANGELES - New video released by police Tuesday shows officers joking with three black people considering suing over what they say was an excessive response to a racially motivated 911 call in Sout...

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates - Israel, Saudi Arabia and Iran’s other rivals have long wanted to scuttle the nuclear deal, which they see as undermining the strategy they say the world should be t...

SEOUL, Korea, Republic Of - Unlike his dictator father, who famously shunned air travel, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un jetted off to the northeastern Chinese city of Dalian this week, becoming the f...