Author Archives: The Canadian Press

NEW YORK - Sacha Baron Cohen's "Borat Subsequent Moviefilm" was partly improvised and scripted by nine writers, but it still walked away Sunday night with one of the Writers Guild Awards' top honours,...

LONDON - Britain's Prince Harry has written the foreword for a new book aimed at the children of frontline workers who died in the COVID-19 pandemic, sharing the pain he suffered as a boy after the de...

MINEOLA, N.Y. - Rapper Nicki Minaj's mother, Carol Maraj, has filed a $150 million lawsuit against the man who is accused of killing Minaj's father in a hit-and-run crash last month, an attorney for M...

BRUSSELS - The European Union, Britain, Canada and the United States on Monday launched co-ordinated sanctions against officials in China over human rights abuses in the far western Xinjiang region, p...

ROME - A recent attack in a Rome train station on two men who were kissing fueled calls by Italian political leaders Sunday for quick passage of a hate crimes law to protect members of the LGBTQ commu...

NEW YORK - Authorities are still investigating claims made by a man charged in a New Jersey slaying who has said he killed a total of 16 people in multiple states, though a law enforcement official co...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. - Kent Taylor, founder and CEO of the Texas Roadhouse restaurant chain, has died. He was 65. His family and the company say he took his own life after suffering from symptoms related t...

WASHINGTON - The Biden administration is scrambling to manage a growing humanitarian and political challenge at the U.S.-Mexico border that threatens to overshadow its ambitious legislative agenda. Wi...

OSHAWA, Ont. - A fast-moving fire that tore through an Oshawa, Ont., townhome left four people unaccounted for on Monday as weeping family and friends feared the worst. Authorities said the blaze brok...

MINNEAPOLIS - Jury selection enters a third week Monday for a former Minneapolis police officer charged in George Floyd's death. Thirteen jurors have been seated for Derek Chauvin's trial on murder an...