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Nebraska's top court upholds approval of Keystone XL pipeline path
Nebraska's highest court lifted one of the last major hurdles for the Keystone XL pipeline on Friday when it rejected another attempt to derail the project by opponents who wanted to force the develop...
Aug 23, 2019

US new home sales slid 12.8% in July
WASHINGTON - Sales of new U.S. homes fell a steep 12.8% in July as higher prices and limited inventory sidelined would-be buyers. The Commerce Department said Friday that new homes sold at a seasonall...
Aug 23, 2019

Women, late-in-life new authors expand Japanese literature
TOKYO - The works receiving one of Japan's most coveted literary awards, the Naoki Prize, have something new in common: For the first time in 85 years, all six of the nominated authors are women. Japa...
Aug 23, 2019

Judge close to naming special prosecutor in Smollett case
CHICAGO - An Illinois judge seems close to appointing a special prosecutor to look into why state prosecutors abruptly dropped charges against actor Jussie Smollett accusing him of staging a racist, a...
Aug 23, 2019

Capitals star Kuznetsov banned from Russia team for 4 years
GENEVA - Washington Capitals centre Evgeny Kuznetsov tested positive for cocaine at the world championship and has been banned from the Russian national team for four years. Kuznetsov failed a doping ...
Aug 23, 2019

Ponoka to host Day in the Park summer festival
Warm up your pitching arm and come out and 'dunk' local celebrities at Ponoka's Day in the Park summer festival on Friday, August 23 from 4:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m. at Lion's Centennial Park! The dunk tank...
Aug 23, 2019

China announces tariff hike on $75 billion of US products
BEIJING - China on Friday announced tariff hikes on $75 billion of U.S. products in retaliation for President Donald Trump's latest planned increase, deepening a conflict over trade and technology tha...
Aug 23, 2019

Liberals block hearings into scathing ethics report on SNC-Lavalin affair
OTTAWA - Cries of a coverup competed with claims of pre-election, hyper-partisan excess Wednesday after Liberal MPs blocked an opposition attempt to hold hearings on ethics co...
Aug 23, 2019

Polish official: Deadly lightning storm like terror attack
WARSAW, Poland - A Polish emergency official on Friday likened the deadly lightning storm over the Tatra Mountains that killed at least five people and injured more than 150 to a terror attack in term...
Aug 23, 2019

Jury backs Nicholas Sparks in lawsuit by former school head
RALEIGH, N.C. - A federal jury sided Wednesday with novelist Nicholas Sparks and the private Christian school he founded in his North Carolina hometown, dismissing claims by the school's former headma...
Aug 23, 2019