Category Archives: Canadian Press

HOUSTON - The Latest on the aftermath of Harvey (all times local): 6:30 p.m. The nation’s largest oil refinery is starting to reboot after shutting down ahead of Harvey’s onslaught. Motiva...

AUSTIN, Texas - Republican Texas Gov. Greg Abbott on Thursday tapped a veteran Democrat to lead the state’s recovery effort after Harvey, which is shaping up to be among the costliest natural di...

WASHINGTON - With Republicans in Congress under pressure to deliver on taxes, House Speaker Paul Ryan said Thursday the GOP plan will aim to reduce the corporate tax rate to low- to mid-20 per cent - ...

PHOENIX - Immigrants are vowing to fight to stay in the U.S. and advocates are launching campaigns including fundraisers and registration drives after the Trump administration announced it would disma...

ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. - Miss America contestants are using their onstage time to speak out against political divisiveness, in favour of arts education and on other topics during preliminary competition ...

WILMINGTON, Del. - Even in a city that had become almost numb to gun violence, Wilmington’s record-setting 154 shootings in 2013 proved to be a tipping point. Desperate city leaders reached out ...

PARIS - Kate Millett, the activist, artist and educator whose bestselling work “Sexual Politics” was a landmark of cultural criticism and a manifesto for the modern feminist movement, has ...

NEW YORK - On immigration, there were few easy answers for the Republican Party’s most vulnerable members. And President Donald Trump just made things harder. Endangered Republicans from Califor...

BRUSSELS - The medical aid group Doctors Without Borders, or MSF, on Thursday accused the European Union and national governments of funding the criminal abuse of migrants in detention centres in Liby...

HOUSTON - Roiling waters in the streets have given way to festering piles of garbage on the curbs. Harvey’s record-setting rains created heaps of ruined possessions that now line entire neighbou...