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Hospitalizations, ICU admissions growing for younger Canadians in third wave
OTTAWA - High vaccination rates among seniors and more infectious variants of COVID-19 are shifting the weight of the pandemic in Canada to younger people. An analysis of data published online by Heal...
May 01, 2021
NDP calls for moratorium on Clearview AI facial recognition software
OTTAWA - NDP ethics critic Charlie Angus wants the Liberal government to stop the RCMP's use of controversial facial-recognition software. The U.S. firm Clearview AI claims to allow police to compare ...
Mar 11, 2020
Israeli forces kill 3 suspected militants in West Bank city
JERUSALEM (AP) - Israel says security forces killed three Palestinian militants in the occupied West Bank city of Nablus on Tuesday who had been responsible for recent shooting attacks. The Shin Bet i...
Feb 08, 2022
Sharapova back in Oz, joins Federer, Djokovic in 2nd round
MELBOURNE, Australia - It wasn’t Maria Sharapova’s choice to miss the last Australian Open. That decision was taken out of her hands because of a doping ban following a failed test on her ...
Jan 15, 2018
Clerical abuse scandal hits Argentine president's school
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina - Rufino Varela was a distraught, confused 12-year-old when he went looking for help from the school chaplain to tell him he’d been sexually abused by a mason at his fami...
Aug 14, 2017
Cut by Raiders, Brown becoming a Patriot on eve of opener
ALAMEDA, Calif. - Randy Moss. Josh Gordon. And now Antonio Brown. A dozen years after Bill Belichick took a chance on Moss when the talented but troubled receiver had worn out his welcome in Oakland, ...
Sep 09, 2019
Man dies after being put in chokehold on NYC subway
NEW YORK (AP) - A man who had been shouting at people aboard a New York City subway train died after fellow riders tackled him and one put him in a chokehold that lasted until his body went limp. Jord...
May 03, 2023
Small tsunami waves wash ashore on remote Japanese islands
TOKYO (AP) - Small tsunami waves washed ashore on remote Japanese islands Tuesday morning after an earthquake that may have been triggered by volcanic activity. The offshore quake was not felt, and th...
Sep 24, 2024
Eugenie Bouchard wins first match of 2020
AUCKLAND, New Zealand - Canada's Eugenie Bouchard opened the 2020 season with 7-5, 7-5 win over Belgium's Kirsten Flipkens in the first round of the ASB Classic on Monday. It was Bouchard's first vict...
Jan 06, 2020
Oklahoma state superintendent orders schools to teach the Bible in grades 5 through 12
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) - Oklahoma's top education official ordered public schools Thursday to incorporate the Bible into lessons for grades 5 through 12, the latest effort by conservatives to incorporate ...
Jun 27, 2024