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Democrats, and some in GOP, seek more info on Iran decision
WASHINGTON - The Trump administration made its case on Capitol Hill for killing a powerful Iranian general, but Democrats - and a handful of Republicans - said the classified briefings Wednesday were ...
Jan 10, 2020
Australians on SE coast urged to flee as fire risk escalates
TOMERONG, Australia - Residents in the path of wildfires razing southeast Australia were urged to evacuate on Thursday if they don't intend to defend their homes as hot and windy conditions are foreca...
Jan 10, 2020
China reports 1st death from new type of coronavirus
BEIJING - Health authorities in the central Chinese city of Wuhan are reporting the first death from a new type of coronavirus. The Wuhan Municipal Health Commission reported Saturday that seven other...
Jan 10, 2020
Sultan Qaboos bin Said, who modernized Oman, dies at 79
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates - Oman's Sultan Qaboos bin Said, the Mideast's longest-ruling monarch who seized power in a 1970 palace coup and pulled his Arabian sultanate into modernity while carefully...
Jan 10, 2020
Taiwan votes with future of its democracy on the line
TAIPEI, Taiwan - The future of Taiwan's democracy is on the line as the self-ruled island's 19 million voters decide on whether to give independence-leaning President Tsai Ing-wen a second term. Votin...
Jan 10, 2020
What'sHappeningNOW Jan. 10, 2020
News Director Glenn Hicks speaks with Reporter Alison Sandstrom about a new playground in West Flat.
Jan 10, 2020
New trial ordered following issues in Sask. coroner’s office
The ongoing issues within Saskatchewan's coroner's office will not be resolved for some time yet.It all stems from a jury trial in 2017 which found the province's chief forensic pathologist unfairly a...
Jan 10, 2020 (file photo/CJME News Staff)
Shoplifter receives one-year jail sentence for threatening grocery store staff
A woman who received a pass on jail time in September went on to steal and threaten grocery staff with a weapon on the same day she received her sentence to serve in the community. Today she was back ...
Jan 10, 2020 (Nigel Maxwell/ paNOW Staff)
Newlyweds, professors, students among Edmonton victims of plane crash in Iran
EDMONTON - Amir Samani never got a chance to personally congratulate his two friends on their wedding in Iran and he can't believe that he never will. Arash Pourzarabi and Pouneh Gorji were ...
Jan 10, 2020
Boeing papers show employees slid 737 Max problems past FAA
Lawmakers on Capitol Hill lashed out at Boeing on Friday after the release of a batch of emails and text messages in which company employees questioned the safety of the now-grounded 737 Max, called t...
Jan 10, 2020
