The Canadian PressMike BlanchfieldStephanie Levitz OTTAWA–Fewer Canadians are being turned away at the U.S. land border in recent months despite mounting concerns that Donald Trump’s immigration policies are making it much harder to cross, The Canadian Press has learned. Refusals of Canadians at American land crossings dropped 8.5 percent between […]
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By Nataliya Vasilyeva The Associated Press MOSCOW — Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, who organized a wave of nationwide protests against government corruption that rattled authorities, was fined 20,000 rubles ($340) by a Moscow court on Monday. It was a comparatively lenient punishment for organizing an unsanctioned rally for which […]
The Associated Press PARIS — A French prosecutor has requested a third life sentence for the man known as “Carlos the Jackal,” once the world’s most-wanted fugitive, for a deadly 1974 attack on a Paris shopping arcade. The Venezuelan-born Ilich Ramirez Sanchez is already serving two life sentences in France […]
By The Culinary Institute Of America The Associated Press ”Dessert” is not French for “butter, sugar, and cream,” but as far as most people are concerned, it could be. For centuries, the word itself conjured images of sweet macarons, decadent custards, buttery cakes, and picture-perfect pies. But there must be […]
By Sara Moulton The Associated Press Here’s a quick, easy and delicious weeknight entree that’s certain to impress your family. The star of the show is pork tenderloin, the leanest and most tender part of the animal. Like beef tenderloin, pork tenderloin is a muscle cushioned by other muscles. It’s […]
The Associated Press EVANSVILLE, Ind. — A 94-year-old Indiana woman is celebrating 44 years of working at McDonald’s. The Evansville Courier & Press reports (http://bit.ly/2n9mtLj ) friends and co-workers threw a party for Loraine Maurer, of Evansville, last week. Maurer started working at McDonald’s in 1973 and has been a […]
The Canadian Press BEIJING–Canada’s Rachel Homan has every reason to feel confident as she prepares for the title game at the world women’s curling championship. The Ottawa skip has yet to lose at the Capital Gymnasium. Homan’s latest victory–a 7-3 win over Russia’s Anna Sidorova in the Page playoff 1-2 […]
The Canadian PressJonas Siegel TORONTO–These were the games, Mike Babcock said, that good teams found a way to win and, indeed, his emerging Toronto Maple Leafs did just that on a record-setting night. Playing the second half of a back-to-back against one of the worst teams in the NHL, the […]
The Associated PressDave Skretta KANSAS CITY, Mo.–Purdue coach Matt Painter stopped short of calling Kansas invincible last night. Not by much. After watching the top-seeded Jayhawks run roughshod over his overmatched Boilermakers in the Midwest Regional semi-finals, Painter was asked whether anybody can stop Kansas–a team that has won its […]
The Associated PressTim Reynolds MIAMI–Down by 15 points early, the Toronto Raptors had no reason to panic. Trouble brings out their best. DeMar DeRozan scored 40 points, doing that back-to-back for the first time in his career, and the Raptors clamped down defensively in the final three quarters to beat […]
The Associated PressDoug Ferguson AUSTIN, Tex.–Phil Mickelson hit a simple chip toward the hole that never stopped until it was off the other side of the green and into the water. Jordan Spieth felt a gust of wind as his tee shot was in the air and began pleading for […]
The Canadian Press WINNIPEG–A Winnipeg woman is recovering in hospital after developing a rare type of strep throat that forced doctors to amputate both her legs and one of her arms. Cari Kirkness, 28, thought she had come down with the ‘flu when she went to the emergency room at […]
