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Iran surpasses 20,000 confirmed deaths from the coronavirus
TEHRAN, Iran - Iran surpassed 20,000 confirmed deaths from the coronavirus on Wednesday, the health ministry said - the highest death toll for any Middle East country so far in the pandemic. The annou...
Aug 19, 2020

Hundreds evacuated, thousands on notice as wildfire flares in southern B.C.
PENTICTON, B.C. - Hundreds of residents in British Columbia's southern Okanagan are out of their homes and thousands more must be ready to leave on short notice as a nearby wildfire grows in size...
Aug 19, 2020

Official: Kanye signature work in Wyoming too close to polls
CHEYENNE, Wyo. - Rapper and music producer Kanye West's campaign ran into trouble Tuesday on his first day of trying to get on the presidential ballot in his home state of Wyoming. People gathering si...
Aug 19, 2020

Detailed plans in place for careful removal of Lee statue
RICHMOND, Va. - When the bronze equestrian statue of Gen. Robert E. Lee arrived by rail in Richmond from Paris in 1890, it took 10,000 men, women and children to haul its pieces more than a mile to th...
Aug 19, 2020

Docs suggest bureaucrats were nudged to look to WE Charity for student program
OTTAWA - Thousands of pages of newly released documents back up the Trudeau government's contention that it was federal public servants who recommended a student service grant program be adm...
Aug 19, 2020

Lawsuit: Actor Cuba Gooding Jr. raped New York woman in 2013
NEW YORK - Actor Cuba Gooding Jr. is accused of raping a woman twice in a Manhattan hotel room in 2013, according to a lawsuit that escalates the severity of the growing number of claims against him. ...
Aug 19, 2020

Trudeau promises roadmap following prorogation and cabinet reshuffle
OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is promising to come back with a new throne speech next month to reset his Liberal government's agenda in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. Trudeau sa...
Aug 19, 2020

WE Charity documents and Gaza's power plant shut; In The News for Aug. 19
In The News is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to kickstart your day. Here is what's on the radar of our editors for the morning of Aug. 19 ... What...
Aug 19, 2020

Day 2 of New Brunswick election campaign amid the COVID-19 pandemic
FREDERICTON - Progressive Conservative Leader Blaine Higgs is in Moncton today on the second day of New Brunswick's election campaign. Liberal Leader Kevin Vickers will be campaigning in Sai...
Aug 19, 2020

Andrew Furey to be sworn in as Newfoundland and Labrador's premier today
ST. JOHN'S, N.L. - Andrew Furey will be sworn in as premier of Newfoundland and Labrador today. The surgeon and charity CEO from a political family was elected Liberal leader Aug. 3 and will replace D...
Aug 19, 2020