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Bill to avert government shutdown clears key hurdle with help from Democrats
WASHINGTON (AP) - A spending bill to avert a partial government shutdown narrowly cleared a key procedural hurdle in the Senate, paving the way for passage as a midnight Friday deadline loomed. Ten De...
Mar 14, 2025
Azteca Stadium has changed its name ahead of its third men's World Cup next year
MEXICO CITY (AP) - Azteca Stadium has been renamed Banorte Stadium before it hosts its third men's World Cup next year. Latin America's largest soccer stadium - 87,500 seats - has taken the name of on...
Mar 14, 2025
Advocates and family of man shot by RCMP launch 'people's tribunal' to probe police
VANCOUVER - Legal advocates and relatives of an Indigenous man shot dead by RCMP officers in Campbell River, B.C., in 2021 have launched what they call a "people's tribunal" to investigate crimes comm...
Mar 14, 2025
Min Woo Lee and Akshay Bhatia grab early lead at Players Championship
PONTE VEDRA BEACH, Fla. (AP) - Min Woo Lee and Akshay Bhatia shared the lead at The Players Championship with vastly different finishes Friday morning on a TPC Sawgrass course that didn't let anyone g...
Mar 14, 2025
Trump pledges to 'expel rogue actors' in political speech at Justice Department
WASHINGTON (AP) - President Donald Trump used a triumphant visit to the Justice Department on Friday to air a litany of grievances about the criminal investigations that threatened to torpedo his poli...
Mar 14, 2025
RCMP arrest suspects in shooting in Penticton, B.C.
PENTICTON, B.C. - Mounties in Penticton, B.C., say they've arrested the final two suspects in a shooting in the city earlier this month. No one was hurt in the shooting and police say one suspect was ...
Mar 14, 2025
CP NewsAlert: Prime Minister Mark Carney's cabinet terminates consumer carbon price
OTTAWA - The federal cabinet has agreed to immediately end the consumer carbon price, and made the change official at the first cabinet meeting under Prime Minister Mark Carney this afternoon. Carney ...
Mar 14, 2025
Toronto FC, Chicago Fire coaches share history as players, mutual respect as coaches
TORONTO - Toronto FC coach Robin Fraser and Gregg Berhalter, his Chicago Fire counterpart, are no strangers, having played shoulder to shoulder at centre back for the U.S. "He was a great player to pl...
Mar 14, 2025
Vegas Golden Knights sign goalie Adin Hill to a 6-year, $37.5 million contract extension
Two years since backstopping the Vegas Golden Knights to the Stanley Cup, Adin Hill has become their undisputed No. 1 goaltender. Now he has the contract to show for it. Hill on Friday signed a six-ye...
Mar 14, 2025
Family 'optimistic' that B.C. woman detained in U.S. will be back within 24 hours
ABBOTSFORD, B.C. - The family of a Vancouver woman detained in the United States after her visa was denied at a border crossing in California says she may be home "in the next 24 hours." Jasmine Moone...
Mar 14, 2025
