Category Archives: Canadian Press

Indiana farmer plants corn maize tribute to Carrie Fisher
EVANSVILLE, Ind. - A southern Indiana farmer who created a corn maze with trails outlining the face of “Star Wars” character Princess Leia says he planted it to honour the late actress Car...
Sep 08, 2017
The US West had a snowy winter, so why the fiery summer?
DENVER - Acrid yellow smoke clogs the skies of major Western U.S. cities, a human-caused fire in the Columbia River Gorge rains ash on Portland, Oregon, and a century-old backcountry chalet burns to t...
Sep 08, 2017
Residents cough, rub eyes in Harvey pollution spike
GALENA PARK, Texas - Cindy Sanchez began to feel ill while barbecuing just before Harvey’s torrents started pelting this city just east of Houston, along a corridor with the nation’s highe...
Sep 08, 2017

For Trump and Ryan, a tortured relationship grows more so
WASHINGTON - It started out cold as ice, and then turned warm and friendly. Now the tortured relationship between President Donald Trump and House Speaker Paul Ryan has gone cool again, with the Repub...
Sep 08, 2017
Donald Trump Jr. fled father's name before embracing it
NEW YORK - Donald Trump Jr. has been in the public eye since becoming the first-born child of a magnate, but the flashes of him were fleeting - a boy caught in his parents’ messy divorce, a 20-s...
Sep 08, 2017

Equifax breach exposes 143 million people in U.S. to identity theft
SAN FRANCISCO - Credit monitoring company Equifax has been hit by a high-tech heist that exposed the Social Security numbers and other sensitive information about 143 million Americans. Now the unwitt...
Sep 08, 2017

Hurricane Irma lashes Cuba; Jose poses threat elsewhere
CAIBARIEN, Cuba - Irma collapsed buildings and battered Cuba with deafening winds and relentless rain Saturday, while a second hurricane, Jose, threatened to lash already-reeling islands elsewhere in ...
Sep 08, 2017
Prosecutors: Minnesota girl held 29 days, tied up and raped
MINNEAPOLIS - A 15-year-old Minnesota girl who thought she was helping a friend’s dad was instead kidnapped and held captive for 29 days during which she was repeatedly raped, tied up with zip t...
Sep 08, 2017
S. Korea braces for another possible N. Korea missile test
SEOUL, Korea, Republic Of - South Korea is closely watching North Korea over the possibility it may launch another intercontinental ballistic missile as soon as Saturday when it celebrates its foundin...
Sep 08, 2017
Congress sends aid bill, debt hike to Trump
WASHINGTON - Congress on Friday sent President Donald Trump a massive package of $15.3 billion in disaster aid linked to an increase in the nation’s borrowing authority that angered conservative...
Sep 08, 2017