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California OK'd aid in name of Scott Peterson, other killers
SACRAMENTO, Calif. - California's system for paying unemployment benefits is so dysfunctional that the state approved more than $140 million for at least 20,000 prisoners, local and federal prosecutor...
Nov 24, 2020
Ex-Mexico treasury chief rejects 2nd set of accusations
MEXICO CITY - Mexico's former treasury and foreign relations secretary, Luis Videgaray, angrily denied accusations Tuesday by a lawyer for another former Cabinet secretary who claimed he used embezzle...
Nov 24, 2020
Despite reduction, Canada calls U.S. softwood lumber duties 'unfair,' 'unjustified'
WASHINGTON, D.C. - The federal government says American duties on Canadian softwood lumber exports continue to be "unfair" and "unjustified," even if they have been reduced. An administrative re...
Nov 24, 2020
Help from B.C. man allows American family to reunite in Alaska
A woman from Georgia says her family's reunion was saved by a man from British Columbia who drove her family to the Alaskan border after they got stranded and appealed for help.Lynn Marchessault began...
Nov 24, 2020
Alberta bans indoor social gatherings, expands holiday school break
EDMONTON - Alberta Premier Jason Kenney, his province bending precariously under the weight of record COVID-19 cases, imposed new sweeping public health restrictions Tuesday that include a ban on gath...
Nov 24, 2020
No further charges related to investigation in Bountiful, B.C.: special prosecutor
VICTORIA - A special prosecutor in British Columbia has declined to approve any further charges against people associated with the community of Bountiful where a fundamentalist Christian sect practise...
Nov 24, 2020
Sask. NDP calling for multi-sector COVID task force
Ryan Meili is calling on the Saskatchewan government to create a multi-sector task force to help deal with COVID-19.The Saskatchewan NDP leader sent a letter to Premier Scott Moe on Tuesday asking for...
Nov 24, 2020
New Canada Soccer president Bontis says men's and women's national teams a priority
A tenured professor at McMaster University, Nick Bontis's school bio says he's recognized internationally as a "leading strategy and management guru." Those skills -- combined with some guidance from ...
Nov 24, 2020
Top public servant says few redactions of cabinet confidences made to WE documents
OTTAWA, Ohio - The top federal public servant says only one per cent of the 5,000-plus pages of documents the government has released on the WE Charity affair were blacked out to protect cabinet confi...
Nov 24, 2020
Fox News, family of slain DNC staffer Seth Rich settle suit
NEW YORK - Fox News has reached a settlement with slain Democratic National Committee employee Seth Rich's parents, who alleged in a lawsuit that the cable news company exploited their son's death in ...
Nov 24, 2020
