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Sen. Mitt Romney breaks with GOP, votes to convict Trump
WASHINGTON - Republican Mitt Romney, establishment to the core, took the Senate's most brazenly rebellious stance Wednesday in voting to force President Donald Trump from office, a move highlighting h...
Feb 07, 2020
Airliner skids, breaks open in Istanbul; 3 dead, 179 injured
ISTANBUL - A Turkish airliner skidded off a runway, crashed into a ditch and broke apart while landing in bad weather in Istanbul Wednesday, killing three people and injuring dozens more. Passengers h...
Feb 07, 2020
Snakebit! Bullmastiff heals, heads to Westminster Dog Show
NEW YORK - Whatever got a piece of gentle Titus in the North Carolina brush, it was trouble. Co-owner Cassandra Carpenter reckons it was a pygmy rattlesnake. Veterinarian Jess Hunter figures it could'...
Feb 07, 2020
Manslaughter charges in hit-and-run accident that killed 2
MOORE, Okla. - A man accused of striking and killing two suburban Oklahoma City high school cross-country runners who were running on a sidewalk was charged Friday with manslaughter in the deaths. Max...
Feb 07, 2020
Fire keeping investigators away from train derailment in rural Saskatchewan
GUERNSEY, Sask. - The Transportation Safety Board says a fire continues to burn at the site of a train derailment in Saskatchewan and investigators can't access the site. It says one investigator...
Feb 07, 2020
Alberta uninterested in federal 'handout' if Teck mine rejected: Nixon
CALGARY - Alberta's environment minister says the province is not interested in any federal handout if Ottawa rejects the proposed Frontier oilsands mine. A Reuters report, citing unidentified sources...
Feb 07, 2020
Opponents to ramp up protests against Trans Mountain pipeline expansion in B.C.
VANCOUVER - Opponents of the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion say they will do whatever it takes to stop the project after suffering a devastating legal blow at the Federal Court of Appeal. Activists...
Feb 07, 2020
NY to sue US over its ouster from trusted traveller programs
ALBANY, N.Y. - New York state will file a lawsuit challenging the Department of Homeland Security's decision to block New Yorkers from participating in "trusted traveller programs" in retribution for ...
Feb 07, 2020
Sen. Lynn Beyak denies claiming to be Metis
OTTAWA - Sen. Lynn Beyak is denying she ever claimed to be Metis. She issued a two-line statement Wednesday saying the media have reported that she is Metis but she says she has never been a...
Feb 07, 2020
Father of Indigenous hockey player rejects report on racist taunts
WAYCOBAH, N.S. - An investigation into allegations that an Indigenous hockey player faced racist taunts during a recent game in Cape Breton has determined the verbal...
Feb 07, 2020
