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The Latest: Head of world track attends Manchester event
MANCHESTER, England - The Latest on the concert bombing in England (all times local): 9:20 p.m. Police lined the street as an athletic event went ahead in Manchester four days after a suicide bomber t...
May 26, 2017
Chicago inmates can order fancy Italian pizza made in jail
CHICAGO - A Chicago jail has started offering gourmet Italian pizzas to inmates. For the past few weeks, inmates have been able to order a pizza made by fellow inmates in a fancy $16,000 pizza oven. I...
May 26, 2017
Maud Lewis painting 'Black Cats' sells for$36,800 at Consignor Art Auction
TORONTO - A Maud Lewis painting has been sold for well above its pre-auction estimate for the second time in a month. The Nova Scotia artist’s “Black Cats” fetched $36,800 at the Con...
May 26, 2017
Sides return to the bargaining table on Day 3 of Quebec construction strike
MONTREAL - An alliance of construction trade unions and employers’ groups returned to the bargaining table Friday as Quebec’s construction strike kept work sites quiet for a third day. The...
May 26, 2017
Canadian light-heavyweight Misha Cirkunov looks to keep rising up the UFC ranks
A winner of eight straight fights, Canadian light-heavyweight Misha Cirkunov can now also lay claim to surviving a run-in with UFC boss Dana White. Cirkunov found himself on the outs with the volatile...
May 26, 2017
Rising program expenses propel fed 2016-17 deficit to $21.8B: preliminary estimate
OTTAWA - A $21.7-billion surge in federal program expenses was almost entirely responsible for the government’s expected 2016-17 deficit, according to a preliminary analysis of Ottawa’s bo...
May 26, 2017
MacIntyre pushes government over degree-granting status at RDC
Don MacIntyre wants to why it's taking so long for the province to award polytechnic degree-granting status to Red Deer College. The Wildrose MLA for Innisfail - Sylvan Lake raised the issue during qu...
May 26, 2017
Outspoken Chinese law professor, government critic, silenced
BEIJING - One of the Chinese government’s most vocal critics is finally falling silent. He Weifang told The Associated Press Friday that he would no longer publish on social media after authorit...
May 26, 2017
Small university outranks many others in black physics grads
One of the smallest historically black colleges in the U.S. boasts a huge accomplishment: pound for pound, tiny Dillard University in New Orleans graduates more physics majors — and, notably, mo...
May 26, 2017
Civilians bear brunt as fresh Syria strikes kill 35, says UN
BEIRUT - A fresh wave of airstrikes in eastern Syria killed at least 35 civilians including women and children, state media and a monitoring group reported Friday, as the U.N. human rights chief said ...
May 26, 2017