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Cool, wet summer to continue in August
Despite Friday's 30C heat, August's weather outlook is rather damp.This would follow a weather pattern in July that despite plough winds and torrential rain was quite pedestrian.According to Environme...
Aug 02, 2019 (paNOW Staff/ Ronald Quaroni)
Canada earns Olympic berth in artistic swimming with duet gold in Lima
LIMA, Peru - Jacqueline Simoneau and Claudia Holzner developed a pre-swim routine to calm their nerves when they joined forces as an artistic swimming tandem. It involves a declaration of trust and a ...
Aug 02, 2019
NYPD judge recommends firing officer in Eric Garner death
NEW YORK - An administrative judge on Friday recommended firing the New York City police officer accused of using a chokehold in the 2014 death of an unarmed black man whose dying pleas of "I can't br...
Aug 02, 2019
Case of Markham homicides suspect put over to next week
NEWMARKET, Ont. - The case of a man accused in an alleged quadruple homicide north of Toronto has been put over to next week. Menhaz Zaman has been in custody ever since York Regional Police discovere...
Aug 02, 2019
'Incredible players': Sweden's Raymond, Holtz ready for big season
PLYMOUTH, Mich. - Lucas Raymond took a pass, cut to the middle and roofed his third goal of the game to send Sweden into a euphoria. Somewhere in the mass of humanity that swarmed the diminu...
Aug 02, 2019
Trump pick for national intelligence director is withdrawing
WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump says his pick for national intelligence director has decided to withdraw from the running. In a tweet Friday, Trump said Republican Rep. John Ratcliffe of Texas has...
Aug 02, 2019
Eighth and final 'Homeland' season to debut February 2020
BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. - Showtime says the eighth and final season of "Homeland" will debut in early 2020. The channel said on Friday that production on the acclaimed drama's last 12 episodes is underw...
Aug 02, 2019
Ariana Grande returns to acting roots in "Kidding"
BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. - Ariana Grande returns to her acting roots with an appearance in Jim Carrey's series "Kidding." The Grammy-winning singer with the big vocal range guests in season two of the Sh...
Aug 02, 2019
Series aims to tell wildlife stories from different view
NEW YORK - Lupita Nyong'o remembers clearly the first time she touched a giraffe. She was 5, and it was part of her childhood education growing up in Kenya to appreciate the wildlife around her. "They...
Aug 02, 2019
'Tough place:' RCMP scaling down search for murder suspects in northern Manitoba
WINNIPEG - An exhaustive search through Manitoba's immense and unforgiving north has yielded no sign of two British Columbia murder suspects, so police say they are scaling back their manhunt in the a...
Aug 02, 2019
