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November 22, 2024
Athletes see climate change as threatening their sports and their health. Some are speaking up
BAKU, Azerbaijan (AP) — Pragnya Mohan has been a professional triathlete for nearly a decade, but summers in her native India are now so hot...
The Toronto Star
November 22, 2024
In a board game, climate experts work to save the world, which diplomats at COP29 try in real life
BAKU, Azerbaijan (AP) — Activists and experts who are pushing world leaders to save an overheating planet learned it's not so easy, even in...
The Toronto Star
November 22, 2024
Canoeist paddling 6,000-mile Great Loop out of gratitude for life
ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — Peter Frank has paddled from Michigan's Upper Peninsula in June to the Chesapeake Bay in Maryland this month in his 19...
The Toronto Star
November 22, 2024
Many in Gaza are eating just once a day, as hunger spreads amid aid issues
DEIR AL-BALAH, The Gaza Strip (AP) — Yasmin Eid coughs and covers her face, cooking a small pot of lentils over a fire fed with twigs and sc...
The Toronto Star
November 22, 2024
A growing number of Oregon cities vote to ban psychedelic mushroom compound psilocybin
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Drug reform advocates hailed Oregon as a progressive leader when it became the first in the nation to legalize the the...
The Toronto Star
November 22, 2024
Gaetz’s withdrawal highlights how incoming presidents often lose Cabinet nominees
MARTIN, Tenn. (AP) — Losing a Cabinet nominee to the confirmation process isn't unheard of for incoming presidents — including for Donald Tr...
The Toronto Star
November 22, 2024
What to know about a Wisconsin man who faked his own death and fled to Eastern Europe
GREEN LAKE, Wis. (AP) — A Wisconsin man who faked his own drowning this summer and left his wife and three children has been located in East...
The Toronto Star
November 22, 2024
Brazilian police indict Bolsonaro for alleged attempted coup, threatening his political career
SAO PAULO (AP) — Police indicted Brazil’s former president Jair Bolsonaro and 36 others for allegedly attempting a coup to keep the right-wi...
The Toronto Star
November 22, 2024
Texas is taking a final vote on allowing Bible-infused lessons in public schools
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Texas would allow Bible-infused lessons in elementary schools under changes that were set for a final vote Friday and c...
The Toronto Star
November 22, 2024
Colorado funeral home owners charged with 100s of corpse abuse counts set to plead guilty
DENVER (AP) — The owners of a Colorado funeral home are expected to plead guilty Friday to state charges accusing them of leaving 190 bodies...
The Toronto Star
November 22, 2024
JD Vance is leaving the Senate for the vice presidency. That’s set off a scramble for his Ohio seat
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — JD Vance's election as vice president has opened up one of Ohio's U.S. Senate seats for the third time in as many year...
The Toronto Star
November 22, 2024
Mother dies in hospital after family of five struck by driver at Etobicoke crosswalk last month
Toronto police said on Thursday that the 39-year-old woman has died in hospital after sustaining life-threatening injuries in the collision...
The Toronto Star
November 22, 2024
Man seriously injured in North York shooting
Toronto police found the victim after they were called at around 8:30 p.m. to the area near Bathurst Street and Steeles Avenue.
The Toronto Star
November 22, 2024
What to know about Pam Bondi, Trump’s new pick for attorney general
NEW YORK (AP) — Pam Bondi, the former Florida attorney general, was chosen Thursday by Donald Trump to serve as U.S. attorney general hours...
The Toronto Star
November 22, 2024
Gunmen fire on vehicles carrying Shiites in northwest Pakistan, killing at least 42
PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) — Gunmen opened fire on vehicles carrying Shiite Muslims in Pakistan's restive northwest on Thursday, killing at lea...
The Toronto Star
November 22, 2024
6 agencies investigate after a photographer says he found remains in a burned Georgia funeral home
MARIETTA, Ga. (AP) — Half a dozen state and county agencies are investigating a burned Georgia funeral home after a photographer from Englan...
The Toronto Star
November 22, 2024
Fashion designer describes invitation to work on Notre Dame cathedral’s reopening as ‘a calling’
PARIS (AP) — When Jean-Charles de Castelbajac watched as Notre Dame cathedral burned in April 2019, he felt compelled to act somehow.
The Toronto Star
November 22, 2024
Trump chooses Pam Bondi for attorney general pick after Matt Gaetz withdraws
Gaetz has withdrawn as President-elect Donald Trump’s pick for attorney general following scrutiny over a federal sex trafficking investigat...
The Toronto Star
November 22, 2024
North Korean leader says past diplomacy only confirmed US hostility
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korean leader Kim Jong Un said his past negotiations with the United States only confirmed Washington’s “unc...
The Toronto Star
November 22, 2024
Alabama carries out nation’s 3rd nitrogen gas execution on a man for a hitchhiker’s killing
ATMORE, Ala. (AP) — An Alabama inmate convicted in the 1994 killing of a female hitchhiker cursed at the prison warden and made obscene gest...
The Toronto Star
November 22, 2024
Georgia disbands current maternal mortality committee over leaked abortion information
Georgia's top health official dismissed all members of a state committee that investigates pregnancy-related maternal deaths after a committ...
The Toronto Star
November 22, 2024
Families of Paul Bernardo victims now allowed to attend parole hearing in person, lawyer says
The reversal came late Thursday afternoon after lawyer Tim Danson sent an open letter expressing outrage about the families only being allow...
The Toronto Star
November 22, 2024
New Hampshire courts hear 2 cases on transgender girls playing girls sports
CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — Two New Hampshire fathers who were barred from school district events for wearing pink wristbands marked “XX” to repres...
The Toronto Star
November 22, 2024
Kentucky to help connect patients with medical providers as part of its medical cannabis program
FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — Kentucky will offer an online directory to help connect patients with medical providers as it prepares for the start o...
The Toronto Star
November 22, 2024
Two people charged, man wanted by police in fatal Brampton shooting
Peel police say a man and a woman have been charged with manslaughter and accessory after the fact to murder in the Nov. 9 gunshot death of...
The Toronto Star
November 21, 2024
New Orleans Police say 3 shot, 1 killed in French Quarter
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — One person was shot to death Thursday afternoon and three others were injured in the French Quarter, New Orleans' histori...
The Toronto Star
November 21, 2024
Matt Gaetz withdraws as Trump's pick for attorney general, averting Senate confirmation battle
Gaetz has withdrawn as President-elect Donald Trump’s pick for attorney general following scrutiny over a federal sex trafficking investigat...
The Toronto Star
November 21, 2024
New Hampshire courts hear two cases on transgender girls playing girls sports
CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — Two New Hampshire fathers who were barred from school district events for wearing pink wristbands marked “XX” to repres...
The Toronto Star
November 21, 2024
Democrats strike deal to get more Biden judges confirmed before Congress adjourns
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate won't hold votes on four of President Joe Biden's appellate court nominees as part of a deal with Republicans t...
The Toronto Star
November 21, 2024
McConnell to head subcommittee overseeing defense spending as he prepares to step down as GOP leader
Sen. Mitch McConnell said Thursday he will lead a subcommittee overseeing defense spending as he carves out new roles once he relinquishes h...
The Toronto Star
November 21, 2024
Democrat Bob Casey concedes to Republican David McCormick in Pennsylvania Senate contest
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Democratic Sen. Bob Casey of Pennsylvania conceded his reelection bid to Republican David McCormick on Thursday, as a...
The Toronto Star
November 21, 2024
Safety board calls for changes two years after Nova Scotia fisherman’s death at sea
HALIFAX - An investigation into how the Canadian Coast Guard responded to a Nova Scotia vessel in distress two years ago raises questions ab...
The Toronto Star
November 21, 2024
Man who set off makeshift bomb outside Alabama attorney general’s office sentenced to nine years
MONTOGMERY, Ala. (AP) — An Alabama man who detonated a homemade explosive device outside the state attorney general's office was sentenced t...
The Toronto Star
November 21, 2024
A Tennessee man is convicted of killing 2 at a high school basketball game in 2021
HUMBOLDT, Tenn. (AP) — A Tennessee man was convicted Thursday of killing two men and wounding a third in a shooting at a high school basketb...
The Toronto Star
November 21, 2024
New Zealand police begin arrests for gang symbol ban as new law takes effect
WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — A ban on New Zealanders wearing or displaying symbols of gang affiliation in public took effect on Thursday,...
The Toronto Star
November 21, 2024
North Carolina elections chief wants senator to take back comment about vote manipulation
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — The North Carolina State Board of Elections' top administrator asked a powerful legislator on Thursday to retract a com...
The Toronto Star
November 21, 2024
Alberta pitches new rules for auto insurance, including rate hikes, no-fault claims
EDMONTON - The Alberta government is making changes to auto insurance, including rate hikes and switching to a predominantly no-fault claims...
The Toronto Star
November 21, 2024
Trump convinced Republicans to overlook his misconduct. But can he do the same for his nominees?
WASHINGTON (AP) — In the two weeks since Donald Trump won the presidency, he's tried to demonstrate his dominance by naming loyalists for to...
The Toronto Star
November 21, 2024
Louisiana’s governor raises major doubts about a stalled $3 billion coastal restoration project
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry raised serious objections Thursday to a $3 billion project long hailed as key to restoring the...
The Toronto Star
November 21, 2024
What to know about a storm bringing high winds, heavy rain, snow to California and Pacific Northwest
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — One of the strongest storms on the West Coast in decades knocked out power for thousands of people, unleashed strong wi...
The Toronto Star
November 21, 2024
Couple dies in West Virginia after car crashes into toll plaza building
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — A senior citizen couple died in West Virginia on Thursday after their car crashed into a toll booth plaza administr...
The Toronto Star
November 21, 2024
Regina chiropractor accused of sex assaults tells jury he asks patients for consent
REGINA - A Regina chiropractor accused of sexually assaulting seven women over 10 years has told a jury he would seek consent before treatin...
The Toronto Star
November 21, 2024
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The Toronto Star
November 21, 2024
Brazilian police indict former President Bolsonaro and aides over alleged 2022 coup attempt
Brazil’s federal police said they indicted former President Jair Bolsonaro and 36 other people on charges of attempting a coup to keep him i...
The Toronto Star
November 21, 2024
Elderly couple dies in West Virginia after car crashes into toll plaza building
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — An elderly couple died in West Virginia on Thursday after their car crashed into a toll booth plaza administration...
The Toronto Star
November 21, 2024
Ex-sheriff indicted on murder charge in the slaying of a judge in Kentucky
FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — A former Kentucky sheriff was indicted Thursday in the slaying of a judge who was gunned down in his courthouse chambe...
The Toronto Star
November 21, 2024
Jannik Sinner leads Italy back to the Davis Cup semifinals and a rematch against Australia
MALAGA, Spain (AP) — No. 1-ranked Jannik Sinner won matches in singles and doubles to lead defending champion Italy to a 2-1 comeback victor...
The Toronto Star
November 21, 2024
Third deer infected with chronic wasting disease in B.C.
VICTORIA - A new case of chronic wasting disease, an incurable illness that has the potential to decimate deer populations, has been identif...
The Toronto Star
November 21, 2024
Top war-crimes court issues arrest warrants for Netanyahu and others in Israel-Hamas fighting
The court accused the Israeli PM, his former defense minister and Hamas officials of war crimes and crimes against humanity over the war in...
The Toronto Star
November 21, 2024