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U.S. Justice Department to investigate Minneapolis police after George Floyd verdict
WASHINGTON - The U.S. Justice Department will examine the policies and actions of Minneapolis police following former officer Derek Chauvin's murder conviction. Attorney General Merrick Garland says t...
Apr 21, 2021
Jury's swift verdict for Chauvin in Floyd death: Guilty
MINNEAPOLIS - After three weeks of testimony, the trial of the former police officer charged with killing George Floyd ended swiftly: barely over a day of jury deliberations, then just minutes for the...
Apr 21, 2021
Two-time world pairs champion Radford returning to competition with Vanessa James
OTTAWA - Two-time world pairs champion Eric Radford is coming out of retirement. The 36-year-old, who won two world figure skating titles and an Olympic bronze medal for Canada in 2018 with Meagan Duh...
Apr 21, 2021
Oxygen supply disruption kills 22 COVID-19 patients in India
NEW DELHI - Twenty-two COVID-19 patients on ventilators died in a hospital in western India on Wednesday when their oxygen supply was interrupted by a leak in a supply line, officials said. Suraj Mand...
Apr 21, 2021
Canadian Felix Auger-Aliassime ready to face Denis Shapovalov after second-round win
BARCELONA, Spain - Felix Auger-Aliassime has set up a Canadian clash with Denis Shapovalov after a win in the second round of the Barcelona Open. The 10th-seeded Auger-Aliassime, from Montreal, downed...
Apr 21, 2021
AP source: DOJ to announce Minneapolis police probe
WASHINGTON - Attorney General Merrick Garland is expected to announce that the Justice Department is opening a sweeping investigation into policing practices in Minneapolis after the guilty verdict in...
Apr 21, 2021
Indonesian military says submarine missing with 53 on board
JAKARTA, Indonesia - Indonesia's navy is searching for a submarine that went missing north of the resort island of Bali with 53 people on board, the military said Wednesday. Military chief Hadi Tjahja...
Apr 21, 2021
Floyd's hometown exalts in verdict but tempers expectations
HOUSTON - The streets of Houston's Third Ward, a historically Black neighbourhood where George Floyd grew up, echoed with screams filled with the word "justice" in the moments after white former Minne...
Apr 21, 2021
Sikh group wants probe of gunman's possible supremacist link
INDIANAPOLIS - A Sikh civil rights organization called on law enforcement Tuesday to investigate whether a former FedEx employee who fatally shot eight people - four of them Sikhs - at a FedEx facilit...
Apr 21, 2021
Queen Elizabeth expresses thanks for 'support and kindness'
LONDON - Queen Elizabeth II has expressed her thanks for all the "support and kindness" shown following the death of her husband, Prince Philip. In a statement Wednesday posted on social media on her ...
Apr 21, 2021