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Toronto Blue Jays sign general manager Ross Atkins to five-year extension
Toronto Blue Jays general manager Ross Atkins has signed a five-year contact extension with the club. The move comes three months after president Mark Shapiro also signed a five-year extension with th...
Apr 07, 2021
About 17 million view Baylor's championship win over Gonzaga
NEW YORK - Even an NCAA championship matchup between two widely acknowledged as the best men's college basketball teams in the country wasn't enough to set the television world afire. An estimated 16....
Apr 07, 2021
Will the Oscars be a 'who cares' moment as ratings dive?
NEW YORK - George Bradley used to love watching the Academy Awards. The 28-year-old Brit now living in San Diego would stay up late back home just to tune in. Though he's now in the right time zone, h...
Apr 07, 2021
About 17 million view Baylor's championship win over Gonzaga
NEW YORK - Even an NCAA championship matchup between two widely acknowledged as the best men's college basketball teams in the country wasn't enough to set the television world afire. An estimated 16....
Apr 07, 2021
US trade deficit jumps 4.8% to $71.1 billion in February
SILVER SPRING, Md. - The U.S. trade deficit grew to $71.1 billion in February, as a decline in exports more than offset a slight dip in imports. The February gap between what America buys from abroad ...
Apr 07, 2021
Russia: Navalny supporters denied prison visit and detained
MOSCOW - Supporters of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny were detained Tuesday outside a penal colony east of Moscow where the Kremlin critic is currently serving time. Navalny has been on hung...
Apr 07, 2021
Netanyahu asked to form new government, but faces long odds
JERUSALEM - Israel's president on Tuesday handed Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu the difficult task of trying to form a new government, giving the embattled Israeli leader a chance to extend his len...
Apr 07, 2021
Local school board announces it won't pilot new curriculum
MEDICINE HAT, AB -The Medicine Hat Public School Division has announced it will not participate in piloting the new Alberta Curriculum in the fall of 2021. The division says it does "not support the c...
Apr 07, 2021
COVID hits the young; U.S. weighs Beijing Olympics boycott: In The News for April 7
In The News is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to kickstart your day. Here is what's on the radar of our editors for the morning of April 7 ...What we are watching in Canada ...P...
Apr 07, 2021
Ahead of budget, agency funds skills-training program to buffer against future shocks
OTTAWA - When COVID-19 forced the closure of department stores, Mary Junne Boyco and her co-workers lost their jobs, ending more than a decade of working in the service sector. The 35-year-old lost sl...
Apr 07, 2021