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Canadian actor Adam Beach walks a fine line as an ambassador for Canada 150
WINNIPEG - Canadian actor Adam Beach finds himself walking a fine line after agreeing to be an ambassador for the federal government’s Canada 150 celebrations. Beach, who overcame a troubled chi...
May 22, 2017
T-minus two weeks: Washington braces for impact of Comey comet
Washington is bracing for a high-impact political spectacle. The question on everyone’s mind: Whether this incoming political asteroid lands wide of the White House, or slams into it and causes ...
May 22, 2017
Russia scandal: Why a Washington museum wants the Democratic party's server
WASHINGTON - Most of Washington is animated by chatter about the future of the Trump presidency, and whether it might be washed away by the constant drip, drip, drip of leaks related to the Russia ele...
May 22, 2017
Healthy pets sometimes euthanized for owners' convenience: veterinary groups
HALIFAX - Animal advocates are calling for an end to the euthanization of healthy pets purely for their owners’ convenience, a practice Canadian veterinarians acknowledge is an unfortunate fact ...
May 22, 2017
Greece falls short in efforts to secure deal with creditors
BRUSSELS - Greece and its European creditors failed to clinch a deal Monday that would have seen the cash-strapped country get its next batch of bailout loans and secure an agreement on the sort of de...
May 22, 2017
3 white men, 2 white women picked for Bill Cosby jury so far
PITTSBURGH - The panel that will decide Bill Cosby’s fate in his sex assault trial began to take shape Monday with the selection of five jurors, three white men and two white women. The search f...
May 22, 2017
Bevy of bobcats: Thriving animals poised as next urban pest
CONCORD, N.H. - As someone who has studied bobcats for almost four decades, wildlife ecologist John Litvaitis remembers many times returning from the field without spotting a single one of these solit...
May 22, 2017
1 killed, 7 hurt after vehicle hits bull on Kansas highway
DODGE CITY, Kan. - The Kansas Highway Patrol says one person was killed and seven others were injured when a driver hit a bull standing in the highway. The patrol says 66-year-old Alma Bencomo, of Dod...
May 22, 2017
Woman trying to buy birthday card trapped inside CVS
TITUSVILLE, Fla. - A woman trying to buy a birthday card called police when she was accidentally barricaded inside a CVS store in central Florida. Lillian Rimmel stopped at a Titusville CVS at 9:50 p....
May 22, 2017
Texas set to pass transgender bathroom law for schools
AUSTIN, Texas - A transgender “bathroom bill” reminiscent of one in North Carolina that caused a national uproar now appears to be on a fast-track to becoming law in Texas, though it may o...
May 22, 2017