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Canada tops pool at world junior men's hockey championship with 4-1 win over Finland
EDMONTON - Canada clinched first place in its pool and a quarterfinal matchup against the Czech Republic with a 4-1 win over Finland at the world junior hockey championship in Edmonton Thursday.Dylan ...
Dec 31, 2020
Minneapolis police release officer video in fatal shooting
MINNEAPOLIS - Police in Minneapolis on Thursday released body-camera video from a traffic stop one night earlier that ended with a man shot dead, an extraordinarily quick move aimed at stemming public...
Dec 31, 2020
Raptors' Siakam benched against Knicks reportedly as disciplinary move
TAMPA, Fla. - Pascal Siakam has apparently paid the price for his late-game unsportsmanlike behaviour. The Raptors chose not to play Siakam on Thursday against the visiting New York Knicks, starting N...
Dec 31, 2020
California hospitals at 'brink of catastrophe'; 25,000 dead
LOS ANGELES - California surpassed 25,000 coronavirus deaths since the start of the pandemic, reporting the grim milestone Thursday as an ongoing surge swamps hospitals and pushes nurses and doctors t...
Dec 31, 2020
Last of singing McGuire Sisters dies in Vegas; Phyllis, 89
LAS VEGAS - Phyllis McGuire, the last surviving member of the three singing McGuire Sisters who topped the charts with several hits in the 1950s, has died. She was 89. The lead singer and younger sist...
Dec 31, 2020
Bomb-sniffing dogs? Check. Times Square crowd? Not this year
New York City police turned to familiar tactics ahead of Thursday's New Year's Eve celebrations, deploying bomb-sniffing dogs and sand-filled sanitation trucks intended to guard against explosions. Bu...
Dec 31, 2020
Shutdown, impeachment, virus: Chaotic Congress winds down
WASHINGTON - Congress is ending a chaotic session, a two-year political firestorm that started with the longest federal government shutdown in U.S. history, was riven by impeachment and a pandemic, an...
Dec 31, 2020
Chief justice praises work of federal courts during COVID-19
WASHINGTON - Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts is praising federal courts nationwide for their flexibility in responding to the COVID-19 pandemic, acknowledging in his annual year-end report th...
Dec 31, 2020
Trump extends pandemic-related visa ban through March 31
WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump on Thursday extended pandemic-related bans on issuing green cards and work visas to large groups of applicants outside the United States through March 31. Federal j...
Dec 31, 2020
City plows ready to roll into residential areas January 2
City crews are gearing up to start Snow Zone Plowing and residents are reminded to move their vehicles off the street. Officials say residents are encouraged to sign up for Snow Zone Alerts to get tex...
Dec 31, 2020