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Close advisers try to steer Trump away from issuing pardons
NEW YORK - The end of the special counsel's investigation sparked fresh speculation that President Donald Trump might pardon some of those charged in the probe. It's also spawned a don't-go-there chor...
Mar 28, 2019
Ostrich jacket, hard drives in Mueller's trove of evidence
WASHINGTON - Democrats say they want "all of the underlying evidence" in special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation . But what is all of that evidence? Mueller's team issued more than 2,800 subpoe...
Mar 28, 2019
UK leader Theresa May makes final push on EU divorce deal
LONDON - British Prime Minister Theresa May made a final push Thursday to save her European Union withdrawal agreement after her promise to step down gained the deal some support but failed to win ove...
Mar 28, 2019
Top bureaucrat wrote 60-page memo to Trudeau about Mark Norman case, lawyer says
OTTAWA - Vice-Admiral Mark Norman's lawyer says she wants to see a secret 60-page memo the federal government's top bureaucrat penned for Prime Minister Justin Trudeau about her client's case. Ma...
Mar 28, 2019
Abortion-rights group sues Mississippi over 'heartbeat' law
JACKSON, Miss. - An abortion-rights group is asking a federal judge to block a Mississippi law that will ban most abortions once a fetal heartbeat can be detected, about six weeks into pregnancy. The ...
Mar 28, 2019
Toronto Blue Jays place both Tellez, Guerra on opening-day roster
TORONTO - First baseman Rowdy Tellez and right-hander Javy Guerra have made the Toronto Blue Jays' opening-day roster. Toronto set its 25-man roster Thursday morning, hours before its season open...
Mar 28, 2019
Kawhi Leonard out, OG Anunoby questionable for Raptors in New York
NEW YORK - Toronto Raptors star Kawhi Leonard (load management) will sit out Thursday night in New York against the Knicks while fellow forward OG Anunoby (concussion-like symptoms) is quest...
Mar 28, 2019
In The Rings: Brier/Scotties format still a talking point two years in
Two years into the latest competition format change at the Canadian men's and women's curling championships, the subject remains as polarizing as ever. "There's no right or wrong," said reigning ...
Mar 28, 2019
B.C. human rights tribunal rules anti-transgender poster campaign discriminatory
VANCOUVER - A Vancouver trans woman who made a human rights complaint about a poster campaign that called transgenderism an "impossibility" has won her case. Morgane Oger ran as an NDP candidate ...
Mar 28, 2019
Algerian army chief calls for president to be declared unfit
ALGIERS, Algeria - Algeria's powerful army chief called Tuesday for starting the constitutional process to have President Abdelaziz Bouteflika declared unfit for office, possibly paving the way for th...
Mar 28, 2019