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Raiders trade Ritchie, acquire Mrsic
In another blockbuster trade before the start of the 2024-25 season, the Prince Albert Raiders made waves Monday when they traded 18-year-old forward Ryder Ritchie to the Medicine Hat Tigers in exchan...
Aug 26, 2024
McGill law professors launch unlimited strike on first week of classes
MONTREAL - A union representing full-time McGill University law professors launched an unlimited general strike today over what it describes as the school's refusal to negotiate in good faith. Law pro...
Aug 26, 2024
Texas, other GOP-led states sue over program to give immigrant spouses of US citizens legal status
Sixteen Republican-led states are suing to end a federal program that could potentially give nearly half a million immigrants without legal status who are married to U.S. citizens a path to citizenshi...
Aug 26, 2024
Trump-backed Alaska Republican withdraws from US House race after third-place finish in primary
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) - Alaska Lt. Gov. Nancy Dahlstrom, a Republican backed by former President Donald Trump, withdrew from the race for Alaska's lone seat in the U.S. House on Friday after finishin...
Aug 26, 2024
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. says he's suspending his presidential bid and backing Donald Trump
PHOENIX (AP) - Robert F. Kennedy Jr. suspended his independent campaign for president Friday and endorsed Donald Trump, a late-stage shakeup of the presidential race that could give the former preside...
Aug 26, 2024
3 Detroit-area mall guards not guilty of involuntary manslaughter in man’s death in 2014
DETROIT (AP) - Three security guards who held a man to the floor at a Detroit-area mall in 2014 were acquitted of involuntary manslaughter on his death on Friday in a case that was reopened years late...
Aug 26, 2024
Competing measures to expand or limit abortion rights will appear on Nebraska’s November ballot
LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) - Nebraska voters will choose between two competing abortion measures to either expand abortion rights or limit them to the current 12-week ban - a development likely to drive more ...
Aug 26, 2024
South Carolina sets date for first execution in more than 13 years
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) - South Carolina has set a Sept. 20 date to put inmate Freddie Eugene Owens to death in what would be the state's first execution in more than 13 years. South Carolina was once one...
Aug 26, 2024
Michigan man gets another life sentence in 2-year-old's kidnapping death
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (AP) - A federal judge has handed a Michigan man who pleaded guilty in the kidnapping and killing of his former girlfriend's 2-year-old daughter a second life sentence. U.S. Distri...
Aug 26, 2024
A 2nd ex-Memphis officer pleads guilty in Tyre Nichols' death. He could serve 40 years in prison
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) - Federal prosecutors agreed to recommend a prison sentence of no more than 40 years for a former Memphis police officer who pleaded guilty Friday to federal civil rights violation...
Aug 26, 2024
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