Category Archives: Canadian Press
How Trump's tweets, outspoken comments affect legal system
WASHINGTON - Donald Trump’s voters may love his outspoken ways. But judges? Not so much. The president’s tweets already have played a role in court decisions blocking his bans on travel an...
Nov 03, 2017
Trump-free Twitter: Outage highlights service's importance
President Donald Trump’s Twitter account disappeared for just 11 minutes this week, far shorter than past outages that have affected users of the social media service. But as Trump’s criti...
Nov 03, 2017
Police: Fetty Wap caught drag racing, charged with DUI
NEW YORK - Rapper Fetty Wap has been arrested and charged with DUI and other counts after police say he was caught drag racing another vehicle on a New York City highway early Friday morning. New York...
Nov 03, 2017
What We Know: Indictments, hearings in Russia probe
WASHINGTON - Special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 election jumped forward this week with a 12-count indictment against two former campaign advisers to...
Nov 03, 2017
Refugee chief criticizes UN for failing to solve conflicts
The U.N. refugee chief sharply criticized the Security Council and world leaders Thursday for failing to prevent and resolve conflicts that have displaced nearly 66 million people around the world. Fi...
Nov 03, 2017
EPA to hold hearing on climate plan repeal in West Virginia
WASHINGTON - The Trump administration announced Thursday it will hold a public hearing in West Virginia on its plan to nullify an Obama-era plan to limit planet-warming carbon emissions. The state is ...
Nov 03, 2017
Brother of French jihadi who killed 7 escapes life sentence
PARIS - The older brother of a man who killed Jewish schoolchildren and paratroopers in southern France was convicted Thursday of having ties to a terrorist enterprise but found not guilty of complici...
Nov 03, 2017
4-foot-long lizard found in Southern California backyard
RIVERSIDE, Calif. - A lizard that can grow to be 8 feet long has been found in Southern California, thousands of miles from its native land, and authorities think it’s a pet gone astray. The 4-f...
Nov 03, 2017
NC officials still looking for deadly prison's assault tally
RALEIGH, N.C. - Three weeks after the deadliest attempted prison breakout in North Carolina history, prison and law enforcement officials still can’t quantify the scope of the violence that corr...
Nov 03, 2017
Hundreds of recruits get sick at San Diego Marine boot camp
SAN DIEGO - The Marine Corps says 86 recruits are now being treated after hundreds at a San Diego boot camp fell ill with symptoms indicating they were exposed to E. coli - bacteria that signal the pr...
Nov 03, 2017