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Nets hire Hall of Fame point guard Steve Nash as coach
The Brooklyn Nets hired Canadian Steve Nash as their coach Thursday, putting the Hall of Fame point guard in charge of the team that hopes to have Kevin Durant and Kyrie Irving together next season. N...
Sep 03, 2020
CP NewsAlert: Canadian Steve Nash named head coach of Brooklyn Nets
BROOKLYN, N.Y. - Canadian Steve Nash is the new head coach of the Brooklyn Nets. The Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame member was an eight-time NBA all-star and a two-time most valua...
Sep 03, 2020
US trade deficit surges in July to highest in 12 years
WASHINGTON - The U.S. trade deficit surged in July to $63.6 billion, the highest level in 12 years, as imports jumped by a record amount. The Commerce Department reported that the July deficit, the ga...
Sep 03, 2020
Canada's economic optimism crippled by pandemic, Pew poll suggests
WASHINGTON - A new global poll says confidence in the Canadian economy took a dramatic dive over the summer in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic - a whipsaw pivot sharper than any of the other c...
Sep 03, 2020
Thailand reports 1st local coronavirus case in 100 days
BANGKOK - A prison inmate in Thailand has tested positive for the coronavirus in the country's first confirmed locally transmitted case in 100 days, health officials said Thursday. They identified the...
Sep 03, 2020
Review: Charlie Kaufman's 'I'm Thinking of Ending Things'
"I try to imbue my work with a sort of interiority," says Lucy (Jessie Buckley), the artists-physics student-girlfriend of Charlie Kaufman's "I'm Thinking of Ending Things." The line could hardly desc...
Sep 03, 2020
'The Disciple' returns India to Venice film fest competition
SEOUL, Korea, Republic Of - A film about a classical musician's struggle to balance his career dreams and life in contemporary Mumbai will this week return India to the main competition at the Venice ...
Sep 03, 2020
The latest numbers on COVID-19 in Canada for Sept. 3
The latest numbers of confirmed COVID-19 cases in Canada as of 4 a.m. EDT on Sept. 3, 2020: There are 129,923 confirmed cases in Canada. _ Quebec: 62,746 confirmed (including 5,764 deaths, 55,515 reso...
Sep 03, 2020
Mideast's confirmed coronavirus death toll goes over 50,000
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates - The confirmed death toll from the coronavirus went over 50,000 in the Middle East on Thursday as the pandemic continues. That's according to a count from The Associated P...
Sep 03, 2020
Businessman acquitted in murders of Slovak reporter, fiancee
PEZINOK, Slovakia - A panel of judges in Slovakia on Thursday acquitted a businessman accused of masterminding the 2018 slayings of an investigative journalist who had written about him and the journa...
Sep 03, 2020