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Environmentalist David Suzuki receives honorary degree from Alberta university
EDMONTON - Human beings are a “tectonic force” shaping nearly every facet of the planet we depend on and our failure to realize that is at the heart of most ecological disputes, environmen...
Jun 7, 2018
Climbing stars cope with falls on way to El Capitan record
LOS ANGELES - Two of the world’s best rock climbers coped with frightening falls and the deaths of two fellow climbers on the same rock in a monthlong quest to shatter a mythical record in Yosem...
Jun 7, 2018
US screens more staff in China over mystery health issues
GUANGZHOU, China - A U.S. medical team was screening more Americans who work at the consulate in southern China as the State Department confirmed evacuating a number of government employees who experi...
Jun 7, 2018
Saudi Arabia, UAE hold first meeting of 2-nation council
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia - Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates have held the first-ever meeting of their Saudi-Emirati Coordination Council, created amid a diplomatic dispute now affecting a wider r...
Jun 7, 2018
Mulder honoured with Women of Excellence Lifetime Achievement Award
A record group of 51 nominees was celebrated at the 2018 Women of Excellence Awards Wednesday night at the Sheraton. Hosted by the Red Deer and District Community Foundation, more than 600 people came...
Jun 6, 2018
Woman thanks Trump for 'mercy' in commuting her sentence
MEMPHIS, Tenn. - A woman whose life sentence was commuted by President Donald Trump thanked him on Thursday for “having mercy” and said reality TV star Kim Kardashian West saved her life. ...
Jun 6, 2018
Chicago officer fatally shoots armed black man running away
CHICAGO - A Chicago police officer fatally shot a 24-year-old black man who authorities said pulled a gun while running away, prompting questions from the man’s family about why the encounter tu...
Jun 6, 2018
Octopus Wrestling Was A Real Sport
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! Octopus Wrestling From 1949 to the mid-1960s, the unconventional sport of octopus wrestling ran rampant across the United States. Thousands of people would...
Jun 6, 2018
French fashion powerhouse Saint Laurent takes New Jersey
JERSEY CITY, N.J. - Saint Laurent decamped from Paris to New Jersey for a menswear show with a shine that matched the glittery Manhattan nightscape Wednesday just across the downtown harbour. Creative...
Jun 6, 2018
Samantha Bee is back, both angry and apologetic
NEW YORK - Comedian Samantha Bee returned to her TBS show Wednesday, apologizing again for using a crude epithet to describe Ivanka Trump but expressing anger that the ensuing controversy distracted f...
Jun 6, 2018