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Quarterbacks Ricky Ray, Mike Reilly named outstanding player finalists
TORONTO - It’s one of the few CFL accomplishments to have evaded Ricky Ray. The Toronto Argonauts’ veteran quarterback was named the East Division’s outstanding player nominee Thursd...
Nov 09, 2017
Key West Still Going Strong and Strange!
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! Only 90 miles away from Cuba lies one of Florida's most majestic treasures, Key West. The island city, also known as the continental US's southernmost poin...
Nov 09, 2017
Small knives will be allowed on planes, but baby powder banned: Transport Canada
OTTAWA - Under new regulation changes effective later this month, airline passengers will be able to carry some small knives on most flights, but baby powder will be banned. Transport Canada says knif...
Nov 09, 2017
Democrats see wins as momentum for 2018 state elections
Sweeping Democratic victories in Virginia and key gains in other 2017 state legislative races have lifted Democratic hopes of even bigger wins in next year’s midterm elections, as they seek a gr...
Nov 09, 2017
Las Vegas shooting victims still searching for their heroes
LOS ANGELES - As soon as Chris Gilman knew she would survive the gunshot wound she sustained in the Las Vegas massacre, she wanted to find the two strangers who saved her life - a man and woman whose ...
Nov 09, 2017
Self-operating shuttle bus crashes after Las Vegas launch
LAS VEGAS - The robots won this one. A driverless shuttle bus was involved in a minor crash with a semi-truck less than two hours after it made its debut on Las Vegas streets Wednesday in front of cam...
Nov 09, 2017
Trump isolationism allows China to fill Southeast Asia void
BEIJING - When Chinese leader Xi Jinping said last month that “no country can afford to retreat into self-isolation,” he might as well have been talking about Donald Trump as the U.S. pres...
Nov 09, 2017
Watchdog urges Asian summits to address rights crises
MANILA, Philippines - Human Rights Watch on Thursday urged world leaders converging for annual summits in Southeast Asia to address the region’s human rights crises led by the plight of Rohingya...
Nov 09, 2017
France's Macron heads to Riyadh from UAE in surprise trip
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates - French President Emmanuel Macron made a surprise trip on Thursday night to Saudi Arabia, saying he wanted to speak to the kingdom’s young, assertive crown prince ab...
Nov 09, 2017
'So many babies in there': church shooting claims 8 children
LA VERNIA, Texas - By the time Paul Brunner rolled up in his ambulance to the worst mass shooting in Texas history, the First Baptist Church was a chaotic triage scene. Parents cried and kids screamed...
Nov 09, 2017