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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
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
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
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
'Sliver of hope.' Relief, caution as Floyd verdict absorbed
NEW YORK - When the verdicts came in - guilty, guilty and guilty - Lucia Edmonds let out the breath she hadn't even realized she'd been holding. The relief that the 91-year-old Black woman felt floodi...
Apr 21, 2021
Atlético Madrid, Inter Milan drop out of Super League
MADRID - Atltico Madrid and Inter Milan both decided to drop out of the Super League on Wednesday. The moves came a day after the six Premier League clubs gave up on the controversial breakaway compet...
Apr 21, 2021
Atlético Madrid, Inter Milan drop out of Super League
MADRID - Atltico Madrid and Inter Milan both decided to drop out of the Super League on Wednesday. The moves came a day after the six Premier League clubs gave up on the controversial breakaway compet...
Apr 21, 2021
Canadian women to open Olympic soccer tournament against host Japan
Canada will open the Tokyo Olympic women's soccer tournament against host Japan on July 21 at the Sapporo Dome. The eighth-ranked Canadian women, bronze medallists at the last two Olympics, were drawn...
Apr 21, 2021
Ontario premier in isolation and a mission on Mars: In The News for April 21
In The News is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to kickstart your day. Here is what's on the radar of our editors for the morning of April 21 ...What we are watching in Canada ......
Apr 21, 2021
