Author Archives: The Canadian Press

NASHVILLE - The Tennessee Supreme Court on Tuesday hit pause again on a death row inmate's scheduled execution because of the COVID-19 pandemic. In an order, the justices wrote that Oscar Smith's exec...

NEW YORK - A Lutheran church in New York City already reeling from the COVID-19 deaths of more than 60 members of the congregation has suffered a new trauma: Severe flood damage from the rupture of a ...

DETROIT - Sales of new vehicles in the U.S. fell 14.6% last year, but a second-half rebound from a coronavirus-related plunge in the spring kindled optimism for a recovery later this year. Automakers ...

LONDON - Despite growing vaccine access, January is looking grim around the globe as the coronavirus resurges and reshapes itself from Britain to Japan to California, filling hospitals and threatening...

OTTAWA - The one-time Conservative cabinet minister and MP who broke ranks to form his own political party is among the Canadians who've headed south in recent months. Maxime Bernier, who leads the li...

NEW YORK - The 2021 Grammy Awards will no longer take place this month in Los Angeles and will broadcast in March due to a recent surge in coronavirus cases and deaths. The annual show would shift fro...

WASHINGTON - A judge has banned the leader of the Proud Boys, a far-right extremist group, from the nation's capital after he was accused of vandalizing a Black Lives Matter banner at a historic Black...

Stocks closed broadly higher on Wall Street Tuesday, regaining their footing a day after suffering their worst loss in months amid the worsening pandemic and potentially market-moving Senate elections...

OTTAWA - Rear Admiral Craig Baines is being tapped as the Royal Canadian Navy's new commander.Outgoing chief of the defence staff Gen. Jonathan Vance announced the appointment Tuesday, with Baines set...

ATLANTA - Voters across Georgia cast their ballots Tuesday to decide which party will control the U.S. Senate. The election has dominated the airwaves in the state for weeks and both sides have launch...