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Prince Harry's transformation: The kid's all right
LONDON - Princess Diana's little boy - the red-haired prince with the mischievous smile and his mother's wild streak - is about to become a father. The arrival any day now of Prince Harry's and Americ...
Apr 28, 2019
With churches shut after bombs, Sri Lankans hear Mass on TV
AMPARA, Sri Lanka - Sri Lanka's Catholics celebrated Mass in their homes via a televised broadcast on Sunday as churches across the island nation shut over fears of militant attacks, a week after the ...
Apr 28, 2019
'Terrifying': Crane falls on busy Seattle street, killing 4
SEATTLE - A construction crane fell from a building on Google's new Seattle campus during a storm that brought wind gusts, crashing down onto one of the city's busiest streets and killing four people....
Apr 28, 2019
Baltimore limps along as mayor's scandal keeps on unfolding
BALTIMORE - When Catherine Pugh was inaugurated as mayor, she vowed to help transform Baltimore into "the greatest city in America." Halfway through her first term, she has thrust her chronically stru...
Apr 28, 2019
In the news today, April 26
Five stories in the news for Friday, April 26 --- ELECTION SHOULDN'T BE ABOUT IMMIGRATION: BUSINESS Big business leaders worried about Canada's aging demographics have be...
Apr 28, 2019
Don't make election about immigration, corporate Canada tells political leaders
OTTAWA - Big business leaders worried about Canada's aging demographics have been urging political parties to avoid inflaming the immigration debate ahead of th...
Apr 28, 2019
B.C. spotted owl breeders hoping for new chicks as fertile eggs ready to hatch
It takes fake eggs, sterile incubators, some trickery and years of trial and error to breed Canada's almost extinct northern spotted owl in captivity. Researchers at British Columbia's Northern S...
Apr 28, 2019
Duchene, Columbus beat Bruins 3-2 in 2 OT, tie series 1-1
BOSTON - Sergei Bobrovsky stopped Patrice Bergeron at point-blank range in overtime. He also made an acrobatic save to stop a 90-foot dump-in that took a bad hop straight toward the net. Whatever the ...
Apr 28, 2019
5 bodies found in Tennessee, suspect captured after manhunt
WESTMORELAND, Tenn. - Authorities in rural Tennessee captured a suspect Saturday during a manhunt that was prompted by the discovery of five bodies in two homes. The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation ...
Apr 27, 2019
China's Xi promotes building initiative amid debt worries
BEIJING - Chinese President Xi Jinping promised Friday to set high standards for Beijing's sweeping infrastructure-building initiative as fellow leaders praised the effort despite worries it leaves so...
Apr 27, 2019