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Californians hit with 2nd round of sweeping blackouts
SAN FRANCISCO - Dangerously windy weather sweeping through the state brought power outages to Northern California as the state's largest utility staged blackouts designed to prevent catastrophic wildf...
Oct 24, 2019
Scheer says Canada more divided than ever, as NDP, Bloc hold cards close
REGINA - Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer offered the Liberals no help Tuesday to try and piece together national unity after an election contest that's left the country divided on regional lines. Sc...
Oct 24, 2019
Canada on the rise in FIFA rankings, cracks all-important top six in CONCACAF
Canada climbed six places to No. 69 in the latest FIFA rankings, leapfrogging El Salvador to crack the top six in the CONCACAF region. The move, powered by a famous 2-0 upset win over the U.S. on Oct....
Oct 24, 2019
US durable goods orders fall 1.1% in September
WASHINGTON - Orders to U.S. factories for big-ticket manufactured goods tumbled in September by the largest amount in four months while a closely watched category that tracks business investment fell ...
Oct 24, 2019
Oslo police shoot to stop man driving on sidewalk, 3 injured
COPENHAGEN - An armed Norwegian man stole an ambulance and drove it along a sidewalk in Oslo on Tuesday, injuring two toddlers as police tried to stop him by shooting at the tires and ramming the vehi...
Oct 24, 2019
UCP government to table first budget, warns of program spending cuts
EDMONTON - The Alberta government is to table a budget today that will cut program spending by nearly three per cent. The budget is the first under Premier Jason Kenney's United Conservative governmen...
Oct 24, 2019
Wildfire forces evacuations in northern California
GEYSERVILLE, Calif. - A wind-driven wildfire has forced evacuations north of San Francisco in Sonoma County. The state firefighting agency Cal Fire says the blaze near Geyserville has grown to 10,000 ...
Oct 24, 2019
Liberals: TMX pipeline could fund $500 million a year in clean energy projects
OTTAWA - The Liberal government expects to get $500 million a year out of the expanded Trans Mountain pipeline and is promising to spend it all on cleaner sources of energy and projects that...
Oct 24, 2019
Queen Latifah to receive Harvard black culture award
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. - Music artist and actress Queen Latifah is among the honorees being recognized by Harvard University for their contributions to black history and culture. Harvard is set to award the...
Oct 24, 2019
Spain begins exhuming late dictator Gen. Franco's remains
MADRID - Officials say work has begun on exhuming the remains of Spanish dictator Gen. Francisco Franco from his grandiose mausoleum outside Madrid so he can be reburied in a small family crypt elsewh...
Oct 24, 2019