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Djokovic beats Ruud at ATP Finals for 6th straight win
TURIN, Italy (AP) - Top-ranked Novak Djokovic extended his winning streak to six matches with a 7-6 (4), 6-2 victory over Casper Ruud on Monday to open his campaign at the ATP Finals. Following a two-...
Nov 15, 2021

Vermont Democratic Sen. Patrick Leahy won’t seek reelection
MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) - Democratic Sen. Patrick Leahy of Vermont, the most senior member of the Senate, said Monday he will not seek reelection in 2022 to the seat he has held for eight terms. Leahy, 8...
Nov 15, 2021

Trump ally Bannon taken into custody on contempt charges
WASHINGTON (AP) - Steve Bannon, a longtime ally of former President Donald Trump, surrendered to federal authorities on Monday to face contempt charges after defying a subpoena from a House committee ...
Nov 15, 2021

Democrat Beto O'Rourke running for Texas governor in 2022
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - Democrat Beto O'Rourke is running for governor of Texas, pursuing a blue breakthrough in America's biggest red state after his star-making U.S. Senate campaign in 2018 put him clo...
Nov 15, 2021

Coldwater River breaches banks, City of Merritt issues flooding evacuation orders
MERRITT - The City of Merritt has issued evacuation orders for multiple properties, due to flooding from the Coldwater River. In a noticed posted to the municipality's website earlier this morning (No...
Nov 15, 2021

Pope honors Catholic priests, nuns who cared for HIV victims
ROME (AP) - Pope Francis has paid tribute to Catholic priests, nuns and laypeople who helped care for people with HIV and AIDS during the early period of the epidemic in the U.S. "at great risk to the...
Nov 15, 2021

Heavy rain sets off flooding, rock and mudslides in southern B.C.
VANCOUVER - Relentless rain has caused mud and rock slides in several locations in southern B.C., displacing some residents and prompting highway closures. The City of Abbotsford opened a reception ce...
Nov 15, 2021

UK police: Blast outside hospital was terrorist incident
LONDON (AP) - British police say an explosion in a taxi outside a hospital that killed a man is being treated as a terrorist incident, but the motive remains unclear. Russ Jackson, the head of Counter...
Nov 15, 2021

Ex-US diplomat says Myanmar frees jailed American journalist
BANGKOK (AP) - Former U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Bill Richardson says American journalist Danny Fenster has been released from prison in Myanmar. Richardson said in a statement Monday that Fenster ha...
Nov 15, 2021

Doctors lament overnight closure of Montreal hospital ER, dig into pockets to end it
MONTREAL - Dr. Fahimy Saoud spent a recent shift in a west-Montreal emergency room idly sitting and waiting for patients she knew would never come. The urgent care area of the Lachine Hospital, where ...
Nov 15, 2021