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Lockdown lifted at Texas air base after 'security incident'
SAN ANTONIO - Military officials say the lockdown of a U.S. Air Force base in Texas has been lifted after a preliminary search of a community centre there did not reveal any danger. Authorities at Joi...
Jun 02, 2017
O'Reilly's next book is 'Killing England,' coming Sept. 19
NEW YORK - Bill O’Reilly’s next book, and the first announced since his ouster from Fox News in April, brings his multimillion-selling “Killing” historical series to the Revolu...
Jun 02, 2017
US museum returns ancient Egyptian stele missing since WWII
BERLIN - An ancient artifact lost in the chaos of World War II. An American scientist hunting for Nazi secret weapons. An archaeologist who dug into dusty archives to prove a hunch. What sounds like t...
Jun 02, 2017
UCLA creates $1M in scholarships in name of Jackie Robinson
LOS ANGELES - UCLA is creating $1 million worth of scholarships in the name of Jackie Robinson for male athletes in the four sports the baseball Hall of Famer played while attending the school. The Ja...
Jun 02, 2017
Winnipeg receivers hope to catch a break on the injury front in 2017
WINNIPEG - Darvin Adams would be happy to haul in some long bombs and take it to the house. Weston Dressler is gearing up to turn some short passes into big gains. But what the Winnipeg Blue Bombers r...
Jun 02, 2017
Chief of Defence Staff orders acceptance of sex assault panel recommendations
OTTAWA - Canada’s top soldier accepted an internal report Tuesday that condemned the military for failing a former master corporal whose case spawned a crackdown on sexual misconduct in the mili...
Jun 02, 2017
'Mark my words:' Alberta's Notley says pipeline coming no matter B.C. politics
EDMONTON - Alberta Premier Rachel Notley wants everyone to mark her words: the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion will go ahead to deliver her province’s oil to the West Coast and jobs to British...
Jun 02, 2017
Lake Huron site best suited for nuclear-waste bunker, OPG report affirms
TORONTO - A new report from Ontario Power Generation overwhelmingly affirms the utility’s long-held position that the best place for a nuclear-waste bunker is on the Lake Huron shoreline. One of...
Jun 02, 2017
Cop who killed Tamir Rice fired for job application omission
CLEVELAND - The police officer who shot and killed Tamir Rice was fired Tuesday for failing to disclose that he had been forced out of another department before Cleveland hired him, while his partner ...
Jun 02, 2017
Highlights of Ontario's planned changes to labour laws
TORONTO - Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne has announced a host of changes to labour laws in the province, as the changing nature of work leaves people with less secure jobs, fewer benefits and fewer pr...
Jun 02, 2017