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Growing support for separating roles of justice minister and attorney general
OTTAWA - Federal Justice Minister David Lametti is publicly musing about whether Canada should consider separating the offices of its attorney general and its minister of justice in the wake of t...
Mar 02, 2019
North Stars grab division lead with big home win
There's no place like home. The Battlefords North Stars defeated the division-rival Notre Dame Hounds 6-3 Friday night to improve to 7-0-1 over their last 8 games, and leapfrog the Kindersley Klippers...
Mar 02, 2019 With a Battlefords win, and a Kindersley regulation loss, the North Stars leapfroged the Klippers for top spot in the Global Ag. Risk Solutions Division Friday night. (Martin Martinson/battlefordsNOW Staff) : Martin Martinson
Friday's Scoreboard
Friday's Games WHL Prince Albert 2, Red Deer 1 (SO)Lethbridge 5, Moose Jaw 0 Saskatoon 4, Regina 0 Kootenay 5, Swift Current 3Calgary 3, Brandon 2 (OT)Edmonton 5, Medicine Hat 2Seattle 6, Kamloops 4Sp...
Mar 02, 2019
Democrats eye new inquiries, witnesses after Cohen testimony
WASHINGTON - After three days of grilling Michael Cohen, President Donald Trump's former lawyer, Democrats are quickly using his words as a roadmap to open new lines of investigation into the presiden...
Mar 02, 2019
Russian Nobel winner Alferov dies at 88
MOSCOW - Zhores Alferov, a Russian physicist and Nobel Prize laureate, has died. He was 88. His death was announced Saturday by the State Duma, the lower house of the Russian parliament, where Alferov...
Mar 02, 2019
America's newest crew capsule rockets toward space station
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - America's newest capsule for astronauts rocketed Saturday toward the International Space Station on a high-stakes test flight by SpaceX. The only passenger was a life-size test ...
Mar 02, 2019
Sanders to launch 2020 campaign from Brooklyn hometown
NEW YORK - Sen. Bernie Sanders will return to Brooklyn, the borough where he was born, to launch a presidential campaign that's expected to connect his working-class childhood to his populist politica...
Mar 02, 2019
4 children, 1 adult killed in German house fire
BERLIN - German firefighters say that five people, including four children, have been killed after a blaze ripped through their home in the southern city of Nuremberg. Firefighters told the dpa news a...
Mar 02, 2019
India, Pakistan resume shelling in Kashmir, killing 6
SRINAGAR, India - Indian and Pakistani soldiers again targeted each other's posts and villages along their volatile frontier in disputed Kashmir, killing at least six civilians and wounding six others...
Mar 02, 2019
US-backed Syrian fighters advance on 2 fronts against IS
OUTSIDE BAGHOUZ, Syria - Fighters with the U.S.-backed force battling the Islamic State group in eastern Syria advanced on two fronts Saturday as the extremists used snipers and booby traps to slow th...
Mar 02, 2019