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Quebec teachers, religious groups denounce government's secularism bill
MONTREAL - Advocacy organizations and citizens are denouncing the Quebec government's secularism legislation, saying it turns religious minorities into second-class citizens. The bill tabled today wou...
Mar 28, 2019
Baltimore mayor's $500K book deal draws intense criticism
BALTIMORE - A search is underway in Maryland for "Healthy Holly" - not a fugitive or a missing citizen, but a self-published children's book series authored by Baltimore Mayor Catherine Pugh and sold ...
Mar 28, 2019
Life sentence issued for murder of Muslim teen in Virginia
FAIRFAX, Va. - A man was sentenced Thursday to life in prison for raping and killing a Muslim teenager in Virginia as she walked back to a mosque with friends for pre-dawn religious services. The life...
Mar 28, 2019
'It doesn't open': Mosque survivors describe terror at door
WELLINGTON, New Zealand - When the gunman began to attack the Al Noor mosque, Ahmed Alayedy scrambled to get to the nearest emergency exit. He was the first one there. "I tried to open the door," he s...
Mar 28, 2019
Legal hemp, pot's look-alike, creates quandary for police
PORTLAND, Ore. - Federal legalization of hemp arrived in the U.S. late last year and expanded an industry already booming because of the skyrocketing popularity of CBDs, a compound in hemp that many s...
Mar 28, 2019
Close advisers try to steer Trump away from issuing pardons
NEW YORK - The end of the special counsel's investigation sparked fresh speculation that President Donald Trump might pardon some of those charged in the probe. It's also spawned a don't-go-there chor...
Mar 28, 2019
Ostrich jacket, hard drives in Mueller's trove of evidence
WASHINGTON - Democrats say they want "all of the underlying evidence" in special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation . But what is all of that evidence? Mueller's team issued more than 2,800 subpoe...
Mar 28, 2019
UK leader Theresa May makes final push on EU divorce deal
LONDON - British Prime Minister Theresa May made a final push Thursday to save her European Union withdrawal agreement after her promise to step down gained the deal some support but failed to win ove...
Mar 28, 2019
Top bureaucrat wrote 60-page memo to Trudeau about Mark Norman case, lawyer says
OTTAWA - Vice-Admiral Mark Norman's lawyer says she wants to see a secret 60-page memo the federal government's top bureaucrat penned for Prime Minister Justin Trudeau about her client's case. Ma...
Mar 28, 2019
Abortion-rights group sues Mississippi over 'heartbeat' law
JACKSON, Miss. - An abortion-rights group is asking a federal judge to block a Mississippi law that will ban most abortions once a fetal heartbeat can be detected, about six weeks into pregnancy. The ...
Mar 28, 2019
