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'Joker' laughs its way to October box office record
LOS ANGELES - The filmmakers and studio behind "Joker" have reason to put on a happy face. Despite concerns over its violent themes and ramped up theatre security, audiences flocked to the multiplex t...
Oct 07, 2019
The great debate and doctor politics; In-The-News for Oct. 7
In-The-News is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to kickstart your day. Here is what's on the radar of our editors for the morning of Aug. 30. What we are watching in Canada ... OT...
Oct 07, 2019
Lightning thriving despite first loss to Trinity Knights
The perennial contender Hunting Hills Lightning finally lost a game on Friday in senior Alberta Football League action.The final score was 10-6 for the Tier 2 #1 ranked Holy Trinity Academy Knights ou...
Oct 07, 2019 The Hunting Hills Lightning lost on Friday after winning their third straight a week ago against city rival Lindsay Thurber (pictured here) at Great Chief Park. (Kevin Rische)
Weekly recap: October 3-6
RED DEER- Both Red Deer College Soccer teams defeated the University of Alberta Augustana Vikings and Ambrose University Lions. The Queens Basketball team picked up a pair of exhibition victories in C...
Oct 07, 2019
State Department rattled by impeachment inquiry revelations
WASHINGTON - The State Department has been deeply shaken by the rapidly escalating impeachment inquiry, as revelations that President Donald Trump enlisted diplomats to dig up dirt on a political riva...
Oct 07, 2019
Pompeo: State Dept. will follow law in impeachment inquiry
WASHINGTON - Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said Saturday the State Department intends to follow the law in the House impeachment investigation and vigorously defended President Donald Trump, dismissi...
Oct 07, 2019
Security forces kill more than 80 in 5 days of Iraq protests
BAGHDAD - Iraqi protesters pressed on with angry anti-government rallies in the capital and across several provinces for a fifth day Saturday, setting government offices on fire and ignoring appeals f...
Oct 07, 2019
Hong Kong lawmakers challenge mask ban as protests persist
HONG KONG - A group of pro-democracy Hong Kong legislators filed a legal challenge against the government's use of a colonial-era emergency law to criminalize the wearing of masks at rallies to quell ...
Oct 07, 2019
3 get Nobel Medicine prize for learning how cells use oxygen
STOCKHOLM - The 2019 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to scientists William G. Kaelin, Jr, Peter J. Ratcliffe and Gregg L. Semenza for their discoveries of "how cells sense and ...
Oct 07, 2019
Liberal platform adopts combative tone on dealing with provinces
OTTAWA - Justin Trudeau's combative attitude to some provincial premiers may not be just campaign rhetoric - his platform is promising to turn it into government policy if the Liberals ...
Oct 07, 2019