Category Archives: Canadian Press

MEXICO CITY - On paper at least, the Mexico City school appeared to be structurally sound and built to withstand a major earthquake. But it collapsed, killing 26 people, most of them children. And now...

MEXICO CITY - When a magnitude 7.1 earthquake struck central Mexico, toppling buildings and leaving hundreds of people trapped, Mexicans quickly mobilized a mammoth rescue operation involving police, ...

WASHINGTON - The trial of the suspected mastermind of the 2012 Benghazi, Libya, attacks will be one of the biggest terrorism cases yet for a Justice Department under a leader who has said it shouldn&#...

COLUMBUS, Ohio - The evidence against an Ohio man accused of killing three down-and-out men lured by fake Craigslist job offers wasn’t strong enough to convict him, according to attorneys fighti...

PHILADELPHIA - Nearly 150 years after he was killed on the streets of his adopted hometown, Octavius Valentine Catto was honoured by a crowd of hundreds gathered in Philadelphia on Tuesday for the unv...

NEW YORK - Equifax CEO Richard Smith retired Tuesday, as the credit reporting agency tries to recover from a damaging data breach that exposed highly sensitive information about millions of consumers ...

WASHINGTON - U.S. home prices climbed steadily in July even as sales have slowed, evidence that a limited supply of available houses is distorting the real estate market. The Standard & Poor’...

LEWISTON, Maine - A woman who drove a car that struck and killed her toddler daughter while she was leaving a birthday party over the weekend in Maine is unlikely to face criminal charges. Police say ...

ST. LOUIS - Relatives say a St. Louis toddler who killed his sleeping father while playing with a gun has been asking “for his daddy.” The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports that police say t...

CAIRO - Egyptian authorities arrested seven people Monday who they accused of being gay and promoting homosexuality for allegedly raising the rainbow flag of the LGBT movement at a concert, filing cha...