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Canadian Felix Auger-Aliassime loses to Tsitsipas in second round
SHANGHAI - Canadian teenager Felix Auger-Aliassime has fallen short in his bid to upset Greece's Stefanos Tsitsipas for the third time this year. The 19-year-old from Montreal lost 7-6(3), 7...
Oct 10, 2019
Retiree checks to rise modestly amid push to expand benefits
WASHINGTON - Social Security says millions of retirees will get a modest 1.6% cost-of-living increase in 2020 - and that comes to about $24 more a month more the average retired worker. That news coul...
Oct 10, 2019
Suspect in rapper Mac Miller's drug death to appear in court
LOS ANGELES - A man charged with selling rapper Mac Miller the drugs that killed him last year is set to appear in federal court in Los Angeles. Prosecutors allege 28-year-old Cameron Pettit of West H...
Oct 10, 2019
2 Nobel literature prizes to be awarded after 2018 scandal
STOCKHOLM - Two Nobel Prizes in literature - one for 2019 and one for last year - will be announced Thursday after the 2018 literature award was postponed following sex abuse allegations that had rock...
Oct 10, 2019
Are we alone? Nobel Prize goes to 3 who tackled cosmic query
WASHINGTON - They are two of the most fundamental questions not just of science, but of humanity: How did we get here? And are we alone? A Canadian-American cosmologist and two Swiss scientists split ...
Oct 10, 2019
'Looking at the world around us:' Canadian scientist wins Nobel Prize in physics
James Peebles, a Manitoba-born scientist who won the Nobel Prize for physics on Tuesday, said his relatively quiet life isn't so quiet anymore. Peebles, who was born in the francophone commu...
Oct 10, 2019
With China rift ongoing, NBA says free speech remains vital
TOKYO - NBA Commissioner Adam Silver said the league is not apologizing for Houston Rockets general manager Daryl Morey's since-deleted tweet showing support for anti-government protesters in Hong Kon...
Oct 10, 2019
Police: Indonesia's security minister wounded in stabbing
JAKARTA, Indonesia - A knife-wielding man wounded Indonesia's security minister, a local police chief and another person in a western province on Thursday. Police said the attacker may have been influ...
Oct 10, 2019
Ukraine president: 'No blackmail' in conversation with Trump
KYIV, Ukraine - Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy says there was "no blackmail" in the phone call with U.S. President Donald Trump that helped spark an impeachment inquiry. Responding Thursday t...
Oct 10, 2019
No-strike hooky, Mike Tyson and travelling with your pet; In-The-News for Oct. 8
In-The-News is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to kickstart your day. Here is what's on the radar of our editors for the morning of Oct. 8. What we are watching in...
Oct 10, 2019