Author Archives: The Canadian Press

SILVER SPRING, Md. - U.S. consumer confidence rose again in February as an accelerating COVID-19 vaccine push provides hope for Americans who have lived through a year of unprecedented restrictions. T...

OTTAWA - The parliamentary budget office says it could cost the federal government up to $15 billion to compensate First Nations families and children impacted by the child welfare system, as well as ...

LONDON - Prince Philip is "comfortable" in a London hospital where he is being treated for an infection, Buckingham Palace said Tuesday. The palace said Philip, the 99-year-old husband of Queen Elizab...

LOS ANGELES - "Resident Alien," a new Syfy series that caught the attention of veteran TV critic Rob Owen and approving viewers, is evidence that inventive shows exist outside premium cable and stream...

WASHINGTON - U.S. home prices surged at the fastest pace in nearly seven years in December, fueled by low mortgage rates and Americans moving from crowded urban areas to houses in the suburbs. The S&a...

LONDON - A relative of Queen Elizabeth II was sentenced Tuesday to 10 months in prison for sexually assaulting a woman at his ancestral castle in Scotland. Simon Bowes-Lyon, the Earl of Strathmore, ha...

NEW YORK - One of the world's better known fans of mystery novels, Hillary Rodham Clinton, is now writing one. Clinton is teaming up with her friend, the Canadian novelist Louise Penny, on "State of T...

MILAN - A digital runway show by five Italian fashion designers of African origin opens Milan Fashion Week on Wednesday, one tangible result of a campaign launched last summer by the only Black Italia...

BERLIN - A German man suspected in three heists against money transporters, including one at Cologne-Bonn airport, was arrested in the Netherlands on Tuesday, German investigators said. The 60-year-ol...

NICE, France - The doctor slid a miniature camera into the patient's right nostril, making her whole nose glow red with its bright miniature light. "Tickles a bit, eh?" he asked as he rummaged around ...