WASHINGTON - U.S. home sales increased 2.5% in July, a sign that lower mortgage rates have produced a spurt of home-buying. The National Association of Realtors said Wednesday homes sold last month at...
Aug 21, 2019
OTTAWA - The NDP's Charlie Angus says he expects ethics commissioner Mario Dion to be in a position to testify before a parliamentary committee today about his findings on the prime minister...
Aug 21, 2019
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Aug 21, 2019
RALEIGH, N.C. - A jury will decide whether the former head of a private Christian school that novelist Nicholas Sparks founded in his North Carolina hometown was unjustly fired, then defamed when the ...
Aug 21, 2019
BERLIN - A German city that's been the subject of a long-running online light-hearted conspiracy theory claiming it doesn't really exist is offering big bucks to whoever proves that's true. Officials ...
Aug 21, 2019
HONG KONG - China said Wednesday a staffer at the British consulate in Hong Kong has been given 15 days of administrative detention in the city of Shenzhen for violating regulations on public order. T...
Aug 21, 2019
TEHRAN, Iran - Iran's president has sent a bill to parliament that would cut four zeroes from value of the nation's sanctions-battered currency, the rial. Semi-official news agencies reported the news...
Aug 21, 2019
Four stories in the news for Wednesday, Aug. 21 --- ETHICS REPORT NOT HURTING LIBERALS: POLL A new poll suggests a scathing ethics report on Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's handling of ...
Aug 21, 2019
THOMPSON, Man. - A judge says he believes that a northern Manitoba RCMP officer genuinely feared for his life when he repeatedly shot at a drunk driver coming at him during an atte...
Aug 21, 2019
VANCOUVER - The defence team for a Huawei executive wanted on fraud charges in the United States is alleging Canadian officials initially planned to arrest Meng Wanzhou when her plane landed, but...
Aug 21, 2019