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Charges: 2 killed detective, informant in robbery attempt
CLEVELAND - Two teenagers were charged Tuesday with fatally shooting a Cleveland police detective and another man during what authorities said was a robbery attempt. David McDaniel Jr., 18, of Clevela...
Sep 08, 2020

Canadian lawyers demand freedom for ailing, hunger-striking 'Mandela of Iran'
OTTAWA - The Canadian legal team for an imprisoned Iranian human-rights lawyer is calling for federal sanctions and United Nations intervention as she wages a life-threatening hunger strike entering i...
Sep 08, 2020

N.B. Liberal leader promises to put province's economic agency 'on steroids'
FREDERICTON - Liberal Leader Kevin Vickers says the province needs a growth agenda, not what he says are austerity and cuts promoted by Premier Blaine Higgs. Vickers told a business audience ...
Sep 08, 2020

Liberals extend commercial rent-relief program for last time
OTTAWA - The federal government is extending its commercial rent-relief program one last time. The Liberals say the program that aims to help small businesses with their rent or lease c...
Sep 08, 2020

Doherty named to Conservative shadow cabinet
OTTAWA - Cariboo-Prince George Conservative MP Todd Doherty has been named by new party leader Erin O'Toole to the Conservative Party shadow cabinet.Doherty has been moved from the Transport role to S...
Sep 08, 2020

Green party leadership race nearly doubles party membership numbers
OTTAWA - More than 35,000 people are eligible to cast votes in next month's Green party leadership race. That would absolutely smash the turnout in the last Green leadership race 14 years ago, wh...
Sep 08, 2020

Quebec judge who asked woman to remove hijab in court offers apology
MONTREAL - A Quebec judge has apologized five years after she refused to allow a Muslim woman to appear in court wearing a hijab. A letter of apology from Quebec court Judge Eliana Marengo was re...
Sep 08, 2020

Raptors' Serge Ibaka questionable for Game 6 because of sprained ankle
LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. - Toronto Raptors forward Serge Ibaka suffered a sprained left ankle Monday night and is questionable for Game 6 of the team's playoff series against the Boston Celtics on ...
Sep 08, 2020

The week Harry Belafonte took over TV is subject of new doc
NEW YORK - Harry Belafonte made history in early 1968. But it was lost to history. While the Vietnam War was raging and civil unrest was convulsing American cities, TV talk show host Johnny Carson did...
Sep 08, 2020

Coronavirus shutdown threatens Mexico's storied dance halls
MEXICO CITY - The Salon Los Angeles had been crowded every weekend since 1937 with couples twirling to mambo, cha-cha-cha, salsa and danzon. Everyone from slum-dwellers to movie stars and millionaires...
Sep 08, 2020