By Joe Kay The Associated Press CINCINNATI — Jake Arrieta’s first no-hitter set him apart. Pitching another one in the span of only 11 regular-season starts has put the Chicago Cubs ace in elite company. And his catcher suspects that the reigning NL Cy Young winner has a few more […]
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The Associated Press As many as 170 countries are expected to sign the Paris Agreement on climate change Friday as the landmark deal takes a key step toward entering into force years ahead of schedule. U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry joins dozens of world leaders for a signing ceremony […]
By Audrey McAvoy And Caleb Jones The Associated Press KAPOLEI, Hawaii — A solar plane on an around-the-world journey has reached the point of no return over the Pacific Ocean after departing Hawaii, and now it’s California or bust. The plane was cruising over the cold northern Pacific late Thursday […]
By Darlene Superville The Associated Press LONDON — Most people send a card, call, or post on Facebook for someone’s birthday, but President Barack Obama went the extra mile on Friday thousands of miles, actually to deliver 90th birthday greetings to Queen Elizabeth II over lunch at Windsor Castle. Britain’s […]
By Sara Moulton The Associated Press Here in America we think of white asparagus as the pink elephant of the vegetable world not even a rumour so much as a hallucination. It actually has been a staple in Europe for centuries. These days, happily enough, I’ve been spotting white asparagus […]
By James Nord The Associated Press PIERRE, S.D. — Organizers of a federal effort to assess whether nuclear waste can be stored in 3-mile-deep holes are trying to better explain their intentions to South Dakota residents after getting rebuffed in North Dakota over concerns that waste might eventually be stored […]
By Sudhin Thanawala And Tom Krisher The Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO — The owners of nearly half a million polluting Volkswagens in the U.S. will have the option of selling them back to the company or getting them repaired at VW’s expense, under a deal announced Thursday by a federal […]
The Associated Press WASHINGTON — FBI Director James Comey hinted at an event in London on Thursday that the FBI paid more than $1 million to break into the locked iPhone used by one of the San Bernardino attackers. Comey was asked during a question-and-answer session at an Aspen Security […]
By Stephen Braun The Associated Press WASHINGTON — It’s not just Wall Street banks. Most companies and groups that paid Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton to speak between 2013 and 2015 have lobbied federal agencies in recent years, and more than one-third are government contractors, an Associated Press review has […]
The Canadian PressTamsyn Burgmann VANCOUVER—Stoner subculture likely will take a hit with the incoming legalization of marijuana in Canada because as the cause vanishes, so will celebration of the drug, say experts. The declaration comes as the federal government announced a spring, 2017 deadline for introducing new marijuana laws and […]
The Associated Press SAN DIEGO—U.S. authorities said yesterday they discovered a cross-border tunnel that ran a half-mile from a Tijuana house equipped with a large elevator to a lot in San Diego that was advertised as a wooden pallet business, resulting in seizures of more than a ton of cocaine […]
The Canadian PressBruce Cheadle OTTAWA—When Finance minister Bill Morneau used a speech in Chicago yesterday to toss out an open invitation to Americans to visit Canada’s natural splendour in 2017, he inadvertently may have highlighted a potential downside for one of the Liberal government’s election promises. Overcrowding at some popular […]
