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By Danica Kirka WINDSOR, England (AP) — It’s the sort of experience you just can’t buy. The carriages are being polished, the family silver is being laid out, and diamonds are being dusted off as King Charles III prepares to offer a royal welcome to Donald Trump on Wednesday for what will be the highlight […]
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By Kanis Leung HONG KONG (AP) — Hong Kong’s leader announced plans Wednesday to speed up development of an economic powerhouse near its border with mainland China and nurture industries ranging from artificial intelligence to higher education as the city seeks new economic growth engines to maintain its international competitiveness. Chief...
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By Gemma Karstens-Smith VANCOUVER — Even after earning yet another spot in the Canadian Championship final, the Vancouver Whitecaps are not taking anything for granted. The ‘Caps — who’ve hoisted the Voyageurs Cup three years in a row — are headed back to the tournament’s decisive game after blanking Forge FC 4-0 in the second […]
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Tuesday’s Scoreboard MLB American League Toronto 6 Tampa Bay 5 N.Y. Yankees 10 Minnesota 9 Athletics 2 Boston 1 Cleveland 7 Detroit 5 (10 innings) Seattle 12 Kansas City 5 Houston 6 Texas 5 Baltimore 8 Chicago White Sox 7 National League Atlanta 6 Washington 3, 1st game Atlanta 5 Washington 0 (10 innings), 2nd […]
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By Jesse Bedayn, Hannah Schoenbaum And John Seewer PROVO, Utah (AP) — As authorities worked feverishly to find the person who assassinated Charlie Kirk at Utah Valley University last week, the 22-year-old man now charged with the crime was texting with his romantic partner and acknowledging he was the shooter, court documents revealed. Tyler...
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By Christopher Rugaber WASHINGTON (AP) — With the Federal Reserve widely expected Wednesday to reduce its key interest rate by a quarter-point to about 4.1%, economists and Wall Street investors will be looking for signals about next steps: How deeply might the Fed cut in the next few months? There are typically two different approaches […]
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By Curt Anderson STARKE, Fla. (AP) — A Florida man convicted of killing his estranged wife’s sister and parents and setting their house on fire is scheduled to put to death Wednesday, which would be a record 12th execution in the state in 2025. David Pittman, 63, is set to receive a lethal injection starting […]
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By Hillel Italie NEW YORK (AP) — Lorie Lee Sekayumptewa, a former administrator with the Navajo Nation Film Office, remembers seeing Robert Redford at traditional cultural dances at the Hopi village of Hotevilla in New Mexico. It was more than 30 years ago and he was serving as executive producer of the 1991 release “The […]
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By Gemma Karstens-Smith VANCOUVER — The Vancouver Whitecaps are headed back to the Canadian Championship final for the fourth year in a row. Sebastian Berhalter converted a penalty kick and contributed an assist as the ‘Caps blanked Forge FC of Hamilton 4-0 in the second leg of a semifinal matchup on Tuesday. The aggregate score […]
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By Amy Taxin SANTA ANA, Calif. (AP) — A Southern California judge convicted of second-degree murder for fatally shooting his wife after the couple had been arguing is scheduled to be sentenced on Wednesday. Orange County Superior Court Judge Jeffrey Ferguson faces a maximum potential sentence of 40 years to life in prison. The 74-year-old […]
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By Farnoush Amiri UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Mike Waltz almost certainly will not make his debut as President Donald Trump’s U.S. ambassador to the United Nations during a gathering of world leaders next week after delays and procedural hurdles postponed his confirmation. Waltz’s nomination was sent back to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee...
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By Rod Mcguirk MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese on Wednesday was unable to clinch an ambitious defense treaty with Papua New Guinea during a visit to the country, a week after he failed to land a security pact with another South Pacific island neighbor, Vanuatu, aimed at curbing China’s influence in […]
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By Gregory Strong The Toronto Blue Jays are the strong favourite to win the American League East Division title for the first time in a decade. Canada’s lone Major League Baseball team beat the Tampa Bay Rays 6-5 on Tuesday to improve their record to 89-62. The Blue Jays are five games ahead of the […]
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By Yuri Kageyama TOKYO (AP) — Asian shares traded mixed Wednesday after U.S. stocks edged down from record highs and as market focus turned to expectations for the Federal Reserve’s first interest rate cut of the year. Japan’s benchmark Nikkei 225 gained 0.2% in morning trading to 44,995.79. The Finance Ministry reported Japan’s exports to...
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By Amanda Seitz WASHINGTON (AP) — Fired Centers for Disease Control and Prevention director Susan Monarez will tell senators that Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. pressured her to endorse new vaccine recommendations before seeing scientific evidence, according to a copy of the testimony she plans to give during a Wednesday hearing....
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LAS VEGAS — Canadian bantamweight Cody (The Best Fisherman in MMA) Chovancek won his way into the UFC Tuesday after knocking out England’s Raphael Uchegbu on Dana White’s Contender Series. The 27-year-old from Petrolia, Ont., sent Uchegbu stumbling backwards with an overhand right to the chin, then finished him off with a left hook. The […]
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By Jake Offenhartz NEW YORK (AP) — A member of New York’s Chinese dissident community pleaded guilty Tuesday to spying on his fellow activists on behalf of the Chinese government. Yuanjun Tang, 68, had long been an outspoken critic of the Chinese Communist Party, joining monthly protests outside the country’s Manhattan consulate and founding...
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The call-in shows and social-media platforms may be rife with armchair coaches who don’t think Chris Streveler has what it takes, but the quarterback’s coach remains firmly in his corner. Streveler was running the Winnipeg Blue Bombers offence in practice on Tuesday, pencilled in as the starter for a second straight week if injured No. […]
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By Kim Tong-hyung SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — The leader of South Korea’s Unification Church appeared before a special prosecutor on Wednesday over allegations the church bribed the wife of jailed former President Yoon Suk Yeol and a conservative lawmaker close to him in an effort to seek business favors. The questioning of Hak Ja […]
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By Valerie Gonzalez McALLEN, Texas (AP) — New revelations about conditions at a Texas detention facility for immigrant families have stoked ongoing concerns from attorneys representing children. The details are part of a lawsuit where the government is attempting to end protections for children. Declarations from families held at the facility in...
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Milt Stegall may be calling for Zach Collaros to stop playing, but the Winnipeg Blue Bombers quarterback appears to have other plans. Collaros was in full gear as the Bombers returned to practice on Tuesday, apparently intent on returning to the lineup as soon as possible. Whether or not that’ll be this Saturday in Ottawa […]
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DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. (AP) — A Florida convenience store employee has been arrested and charged with fatally shooting an off-duty police officer, authorities said. Eduardo Labrada Machado, 24, shot David Jewell, 45, shortly after arriving for work at the Daytona Beach-area Circle K gas station Monday afternoon, according to the Volusia County...
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By Jaimie Ding LOS ANGELES (AP) — Los Angeles police officers fired over 1,000 projectiles at protesters on a single day in June as demonstrators pushed back against the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown and decision to deploy the National Guard to the nation’s second largest city. The police department released a state-mandated...
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By Darryl Greer A British Columbia RCMP officer says his use of inappropriate and discriminatory language in group chats and on police data terminals wasn’t meant to be malicious, and had “no connection” to the way he conducted himself professionally while on the job. But Const. Philip Dick testified at a code-of-conduct hearing on Tuesday...
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By Sean Murphy OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — The Oklahoma Supreme Court temporarily put on hold proposed new social studies standards for K-12 public school students that include conspiracy theories about the 2020 election. The state’s high court issued a temporary stay on Monday while a lawsuit filed by a group of parents and educators challenging...
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By Mexico City MEXICO CITY (AP) — President Claudia Sheinbaum became the first female leader to preside over Mexico’s independence celebrations in 215 years, with a message that she won’t accept foreign intervention, a significant statement as she negotiates pressure from the United States. Sheinbaum led a traditional ceremony from the...
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By David Fischer DNA sampled from a rifle, as well as multiple other items, found near where President Donald Trump was playing golf in South Florida last year matches that of a man accused of trying to assassinate Trump that day, an FBI analyst testified Tuesday. Tuesday was the fourth day of testimony in the […]
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By Steven Grattan BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — At least 146 land and environmental defenders were killed or have gone missing around the world in 2024, with more than 80% of those cases in Latin America, according to a report released Wednesday by watchdog group Global Witness. The London-based organization said the region once again ranked […]
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By Jonathan Mattise And Safiyah Riddle NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — President Donald Trump’s plan to send the National Guard into Memphis for a crime-fighting push has some residents worried that it won’t help people who are struggling and could scare off visitors. Others disagree with that sentiment so much that they’re offering free barbecue...
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For 67-year-old Garth Lancaster, once you've started running your own hockey teams, it's pretty hard to stop. In fact, just before COVID struck, Lancaster was the largest operator of spring hockey teams in Manitoba. But with the landscape changing, he decided to sell his company to a larger group and become a coach once again. […]
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The union representing WestJet flight attendants says it has given the airline notice to begin contract talks. CUPE 8125 says in a press release that it has served notice to bargain a new collective agreement. Its current contract is set to expire on Dec. 31. The union says WestJet flight attendants are seeking compensation for […]
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Big changes are coming to Manitoba men's curling — and it's about time. When the provincial championship hits Selkirk from Feb. 3–8, 2026, fans are going to see a very different event. Some of it's good, some of it's overdue, and some of it still doesn't go far enough. First, let's deal with the headline. […]
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By Brieanna Charlebois The regional director of a union representing workers at the Amazon facility in Delta, B.C., says leaders are scheduled to meet its members for the first time on the company’s property. Unifor Western Regional Director Gavin McGarrigle says six, hour-long meetings will be held over three days this week to allow the […]
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By Dave Collins A company that owns strip clubs around the country and several of its executives have been charged with bribing a government official with free trips to some of the clubs and thousands of dollars in spending money to avoid paying more than $8 million in sales taxes to New York City and […]
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The union representing WestJet flight attendants says it has given the airline notice to begin contract talks. CUPE 8125 says in a press release that it has served notice to bargain a new collective agreement. Its current contract is set to expire on Dec. 31. The union says WestJet flight attendants are seeking compensation for […]
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RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Two brothers pleaded guilty on Tuesday to murder-related counts for the shooting death of a North Carolina sheriff’s deputy three years ago when authorities said the officer approached a pickup truck late at night in a rural area. Alder Marin-Sotelo, 28, pleaded guilty to first-degree murder in Wake County court in […]
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WEYBURN — The family of a woman shot on a rural highway in Saskatchewan is appealing for her killer to come forward. RCMP say 44-year-old Tanya Myers was shot Friday while riding in an SUV on Highway 39 near Weyburn, southeast of Regina. At a virtual news conference, Supt. Joshua Graham read a statement from […]
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By Nick Murray THE CANADIAN PRESS — Advocates for Canada’s electric vehicle sector want Ottawa to open the door to more European cars to spur competition in Canada. Former Quebec environment minister Daniel Breton was in Ottawa Tuesday, flanked by a half-dozen heads of various environmental and pro-EV organizations. While the group offered few...
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By Liam Casey and Allison Jones Ontario Premier Doug Ford believes Prime Minister Mark Carney will back his idea for a tunnel under Highway 401 through the Greater Toronto Area, though it is unclear if he had received any such assurances from Ottawa. Carney recently named the first five projects in the national interest that […]
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By Konstantin Toropin WASHINGTON (AP) — Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has ordered that troops who need an exemption from shaving their facial hair for longer than a year should get kicked out of the service. While commanders are still able to issue service members exemptions from shaving — a policy that has existed for decades […]
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By Teresa M. Walker NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — The NCAA was back in court Tuesday fighting for the future of its eligibility rules through the case of Vanderbilt quarterback Diego Pavia, who is playing his fourth Division I season under a preliminary injunction. Attorney Rakesh Kilaru argued in court before a three-judge panel of the […]
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By Eleonore Hughes RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro went to the hospital Tuesday for the second time since his conviction last week on coup attempt charges, his latest ailments including vomiting and low blood pressure, his son said. The right-wing politician went to the same hospital in Brasilia on Sunday […]
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By Miriam Lafontaine SALABERRY-DE-VALLEYFIELD — A 34-year-old woman found not criminally responsible after abandoning her toddler in a rural field will remain detained at a Montreal psychiatric hospital. Judge Bertrand St-Arnaud delivered the ruling at the Valleyfield, Que., courthouse on Tuesday, saying that despite the progress she’s made in...
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By Hannah Alberga TORONTO — A group representing Canada’s obstetricians and gynecologists says it has reviewed evidence on Tylenol use during pregnancy and maintains that the painkiller is safe. The Society of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists of Canada said on Monday that it has revisited its position in light of reports questioning whether...
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By Daniel Johnson TORONTO — Canada’s main stock index finished lower on Tuesday, weighed down by broad-based losses, while U.S. markets also lost ground the day before key interest rate decisions on both sides of the border. John Bai, chief investment officer at Aviso Wealth, said Tuesday’s trading day was “quiet” ahead of interest rate...
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By Sidhartha Banerjee MONTREAL — A 2023 train crash in Montreal that injured six people highlights the immediate need for backup safety mechanisms that can prevent collisions or derailments, the Transportation Safety Board said in an incident report Tuesday. Safety board chair Yoan Marier told an Ottawa news conference that trains must be...
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As the world reflects on Robert Redford’s death, his own words illuminate the essence of his career as an Oscar-winning actor, director and founder of the Sundance Film Festival who championed truth, independence and new voices. Redford, who died Tuesday at 89, leaves behind a legacy of freedom, artistry and opportunity. His words — captured...
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By Kathryn Post (RNS) — Growing up as a child of a Focus on the Family executive in the 1990s, Amber Cantorna-Wylde belonged to a seemingly idyllic family at the epicenter of American evangelicalism. Her household was infused with the teachings of Focus on the Family founder James Dobson, who endorsed strong marriages, clear family […]
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By Chinedu Asadu DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — Militants affiliated with al-Qaida have burned and destroyed some 100 trucks transporting fuel to Mali’s capital in recent days, a local trade union said Tuesday, as the nation’s military tries to stop a blockade of fuel imports imposed last week by the militants. The Jama’at Nusrat al-Islam...
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By Sophie Bates JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Police on Tuesday were investigating the death of a Black college student found hanging from a tree on the campus of Delta State University in Mississippi, stirring online rumors that evoked the state’s history of Jim Crow-era racist violence even as authorities said there was no initial evidence […]
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By Matt O’brien Parents whose teenagers killed themselves after interactions with artificial intelligence chatbots testified to Congress on Tuesday about the dangers of the technology. “What began as a homework helper gradually turned itself into a confidant and then a suicide coach,” said Matthew Raine, whose 16-year-old son Adam died in...
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — A California judge has rejected a request for a new trial for Erik and Lyle Menendez, shutting down another possible path to freedom for the brothers who have served decades in prison for killing their parents in 1989 at their Beverly Hills mansion. The ruling Monday by Los Angeles Superior Court […]
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By Babacar Dione DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — A boat carrying nearly a hundred migrants hoping to reach Europe from Senegal ran aground on Tuesday morning in the capital city of Dakar, according to local authorities. The migrants were likely aiming to sail another 1,500 kilometers (about 937 miles) across the Atlantic Ocean to Spain’s Canary […]
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Hope’s Journey Home is hosting its annual perogy supper fundraiser on Oct. 3 to support the completion of its new residential facility in Portage la Prairie for pregnant women in crisis. The dinner will run from 4:30 p.m. to 7 p.m. at the Austin Community Hall. The meal, which includes two kinds of perogies, ham, […]
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By Nicole Thompson TORONTO — A new report from the charity Food Banks Canada says food insecurity continues to climb, but new government programs could ease financial strain. The organization’s 2025 “Poverty Report Card” gives Canada a failing grade on food insecurity and unemployment, but a slightly more palatable “C” for legislative...
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By Vanessa Tiberio TORONTO — Engine failure is to blame for the small plane crash in Toronto that dodged a Monday evening sports game and left minor damage to the area, the Transportation Safety Board of Canada said. The Piper Cherokee aircraft was headed to Toronto’s Billy Bishop airport from Orillia, Ont., when it experienced […]
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