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Debate Takeaways: An acrid tone from the opening minute
WASHINGTON - After more than a year of circling each other, Republican President Donald Trump and Democratic challenger Joe Biden met on the debate stage Tuesday night in Ohio. The 74-year-old preside...
Sep 30, 2020
Serena Williams pulls out of French Open with hurt Achilles
PARIS - Saying she is "struggling to walk," Serena Williams ended her latest bid for a 24th Grand Slam title and withdrew from the French Open before her second-round match Wednesday because of an inj...
Sep 30, 2020
Trump facing devastating debt load? Experts say not so fast
NEW YORK - President Donald Trump reportedly must pay back more than $300 million in loans over the next four years, raising the possibility his lenders could face an unprecedented situation should he...
Sep 30, 2020
Trump to far-right extremists: 'Stand back and stand by'
President Donald Trump on Tuesday didn't condemn white supremacist groups and their role in violence in some American cities this summer, branding it solely a "left-wing" problem and telling one far-r...
Sep 30, 2020
Judge urged to keep Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou's extradition hearing moving
VANCOUVER - A lawyer for Canada's attorney general says the defence team for Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou is trying to fight their case against charges she faces in the United States in a Canadian co...
Sep 30, 2020
Statistics Canada to unveil GDP reading for July
OTTAWA - Statistics Canada will say today how the economy fared in July with expectations that it grew, albeit at a slower pace than in June. The average economist estimate for GDP growth in July is t...
Sep 30, 2020
COVID-19 cases rising in Indigenous communities
OTTAWA - Indigenous Services Minister Marc Miller says Indigenous communities have been facing an alarming rise in COVID-19 cases during the last few weeks. Miller says 673 COVID-19 cases have been re...
Sep 30, 2020
Quebec's second wave driven by community transmission, muddled messaging, expert says
MONTREAL - Quebecers following the COVID-19 news in recent days may be feeling a certain sense of deja vu. The government has been announcing 700, 800, even close to 900 new cases per day - numbers no...
Sep 30, 2020
Indian court acquits all accused in razing of Babri mosque
LUCKNOW, India - An Indian court on Wednesday acquitted all 32 people who had been accused of crimes in a 1992 attack and demolition of a 16th century mosque that sparked Hindu-Muslim violence leaving...
Sep 30, 2020
'I Am Woman' singer Helen Reddy, '70s hitmaker, dies at 78
LOS ANGELES - Helen Reddy, who shot to stardom in the 1970s with her rousing feminist anthem "I Am Woman" and recorded a string of other hits, has died. She was 78. Reddy's children Traci and Jordan a...
Sep 29, 2020