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Storms sweep southern US, Midwest as death toll rises to 11
HOUSTON - Severe storms sweeping across southern portions of the U.S. and up into the Midwest were blamed Saturday in the deaths of at least 11 people, including two first responders, as high winds, t...
Jan 13, 2020
Brazil documentary gets Oscar nomination, exposes division
SAO PAULO - The Academy Award nomination for a Brazilian documentary about the impeachment of then-President Dilma Rousseff has once again laid bare the polarization of Latin America's largest democra...
Jan 13, 2020
Feds working on new policies to stop illegal shipments of garbage
OTTAWA - The federal government expects to make some changes this year to keep Canada's garbage from ending up on foreign shores without consent. Environment Canada and the Canada Border Services Agen...
Jan 13, 2020
Tongue on the Post Festival opens next week
Medicine Hat, AB - The Tongue on the Post Fesitval has grown into one of the city's largest multi-day music shows and, according to organizers, one of the largest winter folk music events on the prair...
Jan 13, 2020
Bearwell: Giant panda pair born in Canada return to Chinese homeland
CALGARY - The first giant panda twins born in Canada have safely arrived in the land of their roots. The Calgary Zoo says Jia Panpan and Jia Yueyue are exploring their new panda p...
Jan 13, 2020
Tough rules for Conservative leadership race could thin the field
OTTAWA - Conservative leadership hopefuls are spinning up their organizations Monday with the official start of the federal party's leadership race. The entry fee, the number of signatures requir...
Jan 13, 2020
Nathalie Normandeau's request for stay of proceedings to be heard in March
QUEBEC - A judge will hear in March a request for a stay of proceedings from former deputy premier Nathalie Normandeau and her co-accused, charged in 2016 following a corruption investigatio...
Jan 13, 2020
Jewish, Iranian groups ask feds to add Iran's Guard Corps to terror listing
OTTAWA - Canadian Jewish and Iranian organizations have reiterated their demands for the government to list Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps as a terrorist entity following last week...
Jan 13, 2020
Astros' Hinch, GM banned for season for sign-stealing
NEW YORK - Houston manager AJ Hinch and general manager Jeff Luhnow were suspended for the entire season Monday and the team was fined $5 million for sign-stealing by the team in 2017 and 2018 season....
Jan 13, 2020 Waving flag with Houston Astros logo. - Dreamstime stock image
Vegas hotel denies defaming OJ Simpson in reports of his ban
LAS VEGAS - A Las Vegas Strip hotel-casino denied that O.J. Simpson was defamed when employees banned him from the property in 2017 and a celebrity news site reported the paroled former football hero ...
Jan 13, 2020