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Tokyo Olympics organizers unveil torch for next year's games
Tokyo Olympics organizers have unveiled their torch for next year's games, playing off the image of Japan's famous cherry blossoms. The cherry blossom is Japan's most-loved flower. Organizers on Wedne...
Mar 20, 2019
Ichiro cheered at Tokyo Dome, Mariners top A's 9-7 in opener
TOKYO - Ichiro drew all the cheers. Most everyone else on the Seattle Mariners did all the hitting. A crowd that came to salute Ichiro Suzuki in his homeland saw Domingo Santana deliver the biggest hi...
Mar 20, 2019
Tuesday's Scoreboard
Tuesday's GamesSJHLBattlefords 3, Flin Flon 2 (OT)BAT leads 3-0Estevan 4, Humboldt 8HUM leads 3-1Melfort 1, Kindersley 2 (OT)MLF leads 3-1Nipawin 2, Yorkton 3YOR leads 2-1WHLKelowna 1, Kamloops 5WHL P...
Mar 20, 2019
From dollars to bytes: Digital payment tech companies merge
Fidelity National Information Services is buying Worldpay for about $35 billion to combine forces as financial transactions increasingly move online. The payment service industry works behind the scen...
Mar 20, 2019
Finance Minister Morneau begins promoting federal budget with Toronto speech
TORONTO - Federal Finance Minister Bill Morneau has begun promoting the recent budget that's already come under fire for its big-ticket spending promises. Morneau is defending the Liberal government's...
Mar 20, 2019
Coach Bruneau weighs in on key moment of Andreescu victory at Indian Wells
Bianca Andreescu wasn't lacking for determination in her stunning upset of Angelique Kerber in the final of the BNP Paribas Open. The Canadian teenager essentially let out a battle cry midway through ...
Mar 20, 2019
$800K Wells Fargo penalty OK'd in Schilling video game deal
PROVIDENCE, R.I. - A federal judge has approved an agreement for Wells Fargo Securities to pay an $800,000 civil penalty to end a lawsuit by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission over Rhode Isla...
Mar 20, 2019
La Scala returns $3.4 million to Saudi Arabia in debacle
MILAN - Italy's famed La Scala opera house will immediately return 3 million euros ($3.4 million) sent to an escrow account by Saudi Arabia in what Milan's mayor on Monday termed a badly handled fundr...
Mar 20, 2019
UK speaker stymies May's bid for 3rd vote on Brexit deal
LONDON - The speaker of Britain's House of Commons dealt a potentially fatal blow to Prime Minister Theresa May's ailing Brexit deal on Monday, saying the government couldn't keep asking lawmakers to ...
Mar 20, 2019
R. Kelly case spotlights abuse of girls in the era of #MeToo
NEW YORK - The girls, a dozen of them 15 to 18 years old, file into a conference room in a downtown Brooklyn office building, taking seats in chairs carefully arranged in a circle. On the floor in fro...
Mar 20, 2019
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