Category Archives: Canadian Press

WASHINGTON - The deficit in the broadest measure of U.S. trade rose to the highest level in more than eight years this spring, reflecting in part a drop in fines and penalties paid by foreign companie...

OTTAWA - The federal Finance Department says the government ran a smaller deficit than it was expecting in the spring budget, ending its 2016-17 fiscal year with a deficit of $17.8 billion. That compa...

LEBANON, Ind. - An Indiana judge is set to hear arguments in a lawsuit filed by former Subway pitchman Jared Fogle’s ex-wife alleging that the company knew of Fogle’s sexual interest in ch...

LOS ANGELES - A small earthquake with an epicenter just outside Los Angeles has gotten people in southern California talking on social media. The U.S. Geological Survey says a magnitude-3.6 quake hit ...

HALIFAX - The crew of a Canadian warship helping residents of a small Caribbean island devastated by hurricane Irma is being forced to suspend their mission now that hurricane Maria is bearing down on...

Seven stories in the news for Tuesday, Sept. 19 --- FIGURES ON BORDER CROSSINGS EXPECTED TODAY New figures are expected today on the number of people who illegally crossed into Canada to seek asylum l...

NEW YORK - Donald Trump’s first speech at the United Nations trashed the leaders of Iran, Cuba, Syria and Venezuela but reserved special opprobrium for North Korea, dubbing its leader “Roc...

PASADENA, Texas - The U.S. government received reports of three spills at one of Houston’s dirtiest Superfund toxic waste sites in the days after the drenching rains from Hurricane Harvey finall...

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico - Hurricane Maria barrelled toward Puerto Rico on Tuesday night after wreaking widespread devastation on Dominica and leaving the small Caribbean island virtually incommunicado. ...

President Donald Trump vowed Tuesday to “totally destroy North Korea” if the U.S. is forced to defend itself or its allies against the renegade nation’s nuclear weapons program, maki...