Category Archives: CP_World
Ratatouille? Tourist in Boston videos gull swallowing rat
BOSTON - This rat is getting a lot of mouse clicks. A British tourist visiting Boston captured on video a hungry seagull devouring a dead rat in a single gulp and posted it on social media, prompting ...
Mar 01, 2019

As Brexit looms, UK 'preppers' stock up and hunker down
LONDON - For almost as long as Britain and the European Union have been wrangling over Brexit, Melvin Burton has been preparing for a bumpy landing. He’s growing vegetables, drying fruit and buy...
Mar 01, 2019

Opponents of Trump border emergency close to votes needed
WASHINGTON - Senate opponents of President Donald Trump’s declaration of a national emergency at the Mexican border have moved very close to having enough votes to prevail, and one Republican su...
Mar 01, 2019

US consumer spending fell sharp 0.5 per cent in December
WASHINGTON - U.S. consumer spending tumbled 0.5 per cent in December, the biggest decline in nine years, as the holiday shopping season ended in disappointment. Meanwhile, incomes rose sharply in Dece...
Mar 01, 2019

Jaden Smith's foundation bringing clean water to Flint
FLINT, Mich. - Jaden Smith’s foundation and a church are working to bring cleaner water to Flint, Michigan. The rapper’s organization and First Trinity Missionary Baptist Church on Friday ...
Mar 01, 2019

NKorea leader Kim Jong Un tours Hanoi after summit breakdown
HANOI, Vietnam - A day after his stunning summit breakdown with Donald Trump, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un smiled broadly as he strode down a red carpet with Vietnam’s president Friday, a mil...
Mar 01, 2019
7.1-magnitude earthquake hits southern Peru
LIMA, Peru - The U.S. Geological Survey is reporting that an earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 7.1 has struck southern Peru. The temblor’s epicenter was 27 kilometres (16 miles) north-n...
Mar 01, 2019

Democrats eye new inquiries, witnesses after Cohen testimony
WASHINGTON - After three days of grilling Michael Cohen, President Donald Trump’s former lawyer, Democrats are quickly using his words as a roadmap to open new lines of investigation into the pr...
Feb 28, 2019

Biden walks back praise for Pence following criticism
OMAHA, Neb. - Former Vice-President Joe Biden’s tendency to talk about his good relationships with Republicans landed him in trouble Thursday when he called his successor, Mike Pence, a “d...
Feb 28, 2019
NY poised to join 41 states in criminalizing revenge porn
ALBANY, N.Y. - Lawmakers in New York voted to join 41 other states in criminalizing revenge porn Thursday, passing legislation that would make it a misdemeanour to disseminate explicit photos of a per...
Feb 28, 2019