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Nielsen estimates about 16 million watched Michael Cohen
NEW YORK - The Nielsen company says that 15.8 million people watched President Donald Trump's former lawyer, Michael Cohen, testify against him on television before a congressional committee. Nielsen ...
Mar 01, 2019
Iron Chef Alex Guarnaschelli on cooking with her 11-yr-old
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. - Alex Guarnaschelli might be a revered judge on TV's Chopped, one of the few female iron chefs and the author of two bestselling cookbooks, but in her 11-year-old daughter's eye...
Mar 01, 2019
Lyft reveals big growth but no profits as it readies for IPO
NEW YORK - Lyft revealed that it is growing quickly ahead of its initial public offering but continues to bleed money and may never turn a profit, according to a federal filing. The company released i...
Mar 01, 2019
Parents blame North Korea's 'evil regime' for son's death
CINCINNATI - Unlike President Donald Trump, Otto Warmbier's parents don't believe North Korea's leader. The parents of the American college student who was sent home from North Korea in a vegetative s...
Mar 01, 2019
Live on-air licking of TV reporter sparks anger, complaint to police
TORONTO - An incident in which a well-known comic actor nuzzles and licks the ear of an on-air TV journalist reporting from a meeting of comedians sparked widespread public condemnation and promp...
Mar 01, 2019
Anti-vaccine campaign 'very concerning,' says Ontario's health minister
TORONTO - An ad campaign from a group of open vaccine skeptics that briefly dotted some streets in the Toronto area represents a "very concerning" development in the ongoing fight ...
Mar 01, 2019
Timeline: SNC-Lavalin and Jody Wilson-Raybould
OTTAWA - A chronology of events in the SNC-Lavalin controversy: Feb. 19, 2015 - The RCMP lays corruption and fraud charges against Montreal-based engineering and construction firm SNC-Lavalin, over al...
Mar 01, 2019
Alberta budget deficit almost $2B lower than originally forecast: finance minister
EDMONTON - A third-quarter update from the Alberta government forecasts a budget deficit almost $2 billion lower than originally forecast due in part to higher than expected b...
Mar 01, 2019
Labour code issues flagged after fatal Canadian Pacific accident in Calgary
CALGARY - Documents show a federal investigator flagged labour code contraventions after a Canadian Pacific Railway train conductor died in a workplace accident in a Calgary rail yard l...
Mar 01, 2019
Father-daughter rowing team arrives in Antigua after crossing the Atlantic
After spending three months rowing a small boat across the moody Atlantic Ocean, father-daughter duo John and Libby Beeden say they're wobbly but relieved to have arrived on solid land. It wasn't...
Mar 01, 2019