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Morneau hopes new NAFTA deal signed next week, stresses tariff fight is separate
OTTAWA - Canada could sign a new North American free-trade deal even with stinging U.S. tariffs on Canadian goods still in force, Finance Minister Bill Morneau said Thursday, with just over a week to ...
Nov 22, 2018
19-year-old Yorkshire Terrier retires from 'The Nutcracker'
PROVIDENCE, R.I. - After more than 125 performances in “The Nutcracker” in Providence, a 19-year-old Yorkshire Terrier named Archie is leaving the stage. Festival Ballet Providence announc...
Nov 22, 2018
Nissan board fires Ghosn as chairman following arrest
TOKYO - Nissan Motor Co. fired Carlos Ghosn as chairman Thursday, curtailing the powerful executive’s nearly two-decade reign at the Japanese automaker after his arrest for alleged financial imp...
Nov 22, 2018
Ottawa 'on a different economic planet:' Alberta finance minister
CALGARY – Alberta’s finance minister says the latest federal economic statement shows Ottawa is living on a different planet from his province. Joe Ceci says there was nothing to help Albe...
Nov 22, 2018
Alberta to change property, adult child support rules for common-law couples
EDMONTON –The Notley government has tabled a bill to make property and adult child support rules the same for married and unmarried couples. The province is falling in line with other jurisdicti...
Nov 22, 2018
Long, tortured road to Trump's answers for special counsel
WASHINGTON - The date had been picked, the location too, and the plan was penciled in: President Donald Trump would be whisked from the White House to Camp David on a quiet winter Saturday to answer q...
Nov 22, 2018
Trump says CIA has not found Saudi prince culpable in murder
WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump on Thursday disputed that U.S. intelligence officials had concluded that the de facto leader of American ally Saudi Arabia ordered the killing of a U.S.-based journ...
Nov 22, 2018
Fire evacuees do their best on a sad Thanksgiving
CHICO, Calif. - Patty Rough lost her Paradise home and most of her belongings in the Camp Fire, and she had no place to cook a family meal on Thanksgiving. But she and her husband are safe, and she wa...
Nov 22, 2018
Indian island police struggle to get body of American
NEW DELHI - Indian authorities were struggling Thursday to figure out how to recover the body of an American who was killed after wading ashore on an island cut off from the modern world. John Allen C...
Nov 22, 2018
China rejects US hacking report ahead of Trump-Xi meeting
BEIJING - China on Thursday rejected a U.S. government report that accuses Beijing of stepping up efforts to steal technology ahead of a meeting between Presidents Donald Trump and Xi Jinping. The Com...
Nov 22, 2018