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September 18, 2024
Inside the Brooklyn federal jail where Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs is locked up: violence, squalor and deaths
NEW YORK (AP) — Fighting to keep Sean “Diddy” Combs out of jail after his sex trafficking arrest, the music mogul’s lawyers highlighted a li...
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September 18, 2024
Harris hits Trump’s promise of mass deportations as both candidates break from battleground states
WASHINGTON (AP) — Vice President Kamala Harris on Wednesday criticized Republican Donald Trump's promise to deport millions of people who ar...
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September 18, 2024
Air Force to deploy Osprey aircraft in weeks following review over deadly crash
NATIONAL HARBOR, Md. (AP) — Air Force Special Operations Command is weeks away from deploying its fleet of CV-22B Osprey aircraft for counte...
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September 18, 2024
Woman suffers leg burns after hiking off trail near Yellowstone Park’s Old Faithful
YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK, Wyo. (AP) — A New Hampshire woman suffered burns on her leg after hiking off trail in Yellowstone National Park a...
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September 18, 2024
Premier Smith blames Calgary Green Line fallout on missing “political oversight”
CALGARY - Alberta Premier Danielle Smith says a lack of "political oversight" undermined Calgary's Green Line light rail transit project.
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September 18, 2024
B.C. short-term rental restrictions reducing rents, saving tenants millions: study
VANCOUVER - A report led by the Canada Research Chair in Urban Governance says restrictions on short-term rentals in British Columbia have r...
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September 18, 2024
Montreal police arrest two people in connection with 15-year-old’s opioid overdose
Montreal police have arrested two people on drug charges following an investigation into the death of a 15-year-old boy from a synthetic opi...
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September 18, 2024
Toronto police officers will be stationed in hospital ERs as part of new pilot program
The one-year pilot program is in partnership with several Toronto hospitals including Toronto Western Hospital, St. Michael’s Hospital, and...
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September 18, 2024
Work has begun on an inauguration stage at the Capitol. The last one became part of Jan. 6 attack
WASHINGTON (AP) — Work on the presidential inauguration platform began Wednesday at the U.S. Capitol with congressional leaders pounding the...
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September 18, 2024
Legal groups file three complaints over VPD treatment of Palestine protesters
VANCOUVER - The Pivot Legal Society and the BC Civil Liberties Association say they've launched three complaints against the Vancouver Polic...
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September 18, 2024
The Latest: Trump to campaign in New York and Harris speaks at Hispanic leadership conference
The Republican presidential nominee and former president is heading to Long Island, while Vice President Harris is expected to speak at the...
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September 18, 2024
Prosecutors charge 10 with failing to disperse during California protest
SANTA ANA, Calif. (AP) — Prosecutors in Southern California have charged 10 people, including two professors, with failing to disperse durin...
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September 18, 2024
Two-alarm fire out at building under construction near Danforth and Broadview
Toronto fire said the blaze is out and crews are on scene doing walk throughs.
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September 18, 2024
A rockfall triggered by a rainstorm kills a woman hiker in Greece
ATHENS, Greece (AP) — A rockfall triggered by a sudden rainstorm fatally injured a hiker in a popular national park on the Greek island of C...
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September 18, 2024
Moscow will support Islamabad’s bid to join BRICS, says Russian deputy prime minister
ISLAMABAD (AP) — Moscow will support Islamabad's bid to join the BRICS bloc of developing economies, the Russian deputy prime minister said...
The Toronto Star
September 18, 2024
US wants more clarity from Ukraine on possible use of long-range weapons
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration still is not convinced that it should give Ukraine the authority to launch long-range missiles de...
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September 18, 2024
The winners and losers from Rogers’ takeover of MLSE
Rogers becomes the gatekeeper of Toronto sports. Bell gets a quick $4.7 billion. But who came out on top?
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September 18, 2024
Canada needs strategy reboot at a time of geopolitical turmoil: former ambassadors
WASHINGTON - Five former Canadian ambassadors to the United States have signed an open letter calling on Ottawa to adopt a plan to deepen co...
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September 18, 2024
Canada abstains from UN motion calling on Israel to end occupation of Gaza, West Bank
This morning's non-binding vote passed 124-14, and Canada was among 43 abstentions.
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September 18, 2024
South Carolina death row inmate asks governor for clemency
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A South Carolina inmate scheduled to be executed Friday is asking Gov. Henry McMaster to spare his life, something no...
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September 18, 2024
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September 18, 2024
Global vaccine alliance GAVI to buy 500,000 doses of mpox vaccine
DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — The global vaccine alliance Gavi will buy 500,000 doses of mpox vaccine to battle outbreaks of the disease in African...
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September 18, 2024
Two people dead after shooting in Keswick park, York Region police investigate
KESWICK, Ont. - York Regional Police say two people are dead after a shooting at a park in the community of Keswick.
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September 18, 2024
A Hungarian company is linked to the pagers that exploded in Lebanon and Syria
BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — In a duplex in a quiet neighborhood of the Hungarian capital is the headquarters of a company that is linked to the...
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September 18, 2024
Nova Scotia NDP accuse government of prioritizing landlord profits over renters
HALIFAX - Nova Scotia’s NDP are accusing the governing Progressive Conservatives of prioritizing landlords over residents who need affordabl...
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September 18, 2024
Lebanon is rocked by a second wave of exploding devices as Israel declares a ‘new phase’ of war
The new blasts come with Lebanon still thrown into confusion and anger after Tuesday's deadly pager bombings, which appeared to be a complex...
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September 18, 2024
Canada imposes further cap on international students and more limits on work permit eligibility
Trudeau government says it will cut the study permit application intake from 485,000 in 2024 to 437,000 next year, and keep it at that level...
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September 18, 2024
Two adults dead after shooting at Keswick park
Two people were located with gunshot wounds and pronounced dead at the scene, York police said.
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September 18, 2024
N.B. election: Parties’ answers on treaty rights, taxes, Indigenous participation
FREDERICTON - The six chiefs of the Wolastoqey Nation in New Brunswick distributed a survey on Indigenous issues to political parties ahead...
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September 18, 2024
Canadian Coast Guard crew member lost at sea off Newfoundland
ST. JOHN'S, N.L. - A crew member of a Canadian Coast Guard ship has been lost at sea off southern Newfoundland.
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September 18, 2024
Police seek a pair who took an NYC subway train on a joyride and crashed it
NEW YORK (AP) — Police are looking for a man and woman who took an empty New York City subway train on a brief joyride before they crashed i...
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September 18, 2024
Unidentified gunmen kill high-ranking migration official in one of Haiti’s biggest cities
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — A high-ranking official with Haiti’s National Office of Migration was killed Wednesday in the north coastal cit...
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September 18, 2024
A Mississippi town moves a Confederate monument that became a shrouded eyesore
GRENADA, Miss. (AP) — A Mississippi town has taken down a Confederate monument that stood on the courthouse square since 1910 — a figure tha...
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September 18, 2024
Harassment case dismissed against Alabama transportation director
GUNTERSVILLE, Ala. (AP) — A judge on Tuesday dismissed a harassment charge against state Transportation Director John Cooper after a neighbo...
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September 18, 2024
Teachers in Belarus are targeted for links with ‘extremist’ group, says rights group
TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — Dozens of teachers in Belarus have been detained or interrogated by authorities as part of the country's wide-rangin...
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September 18, 2024
MrBeast and Amazon sued by competitors from his $5M reality show over alleged ‘unsafe’ conditions
NEW YORK (AP) — MrBeast is accused of creating “unsafe” employment conditions, including sexual harassment, and misrepresenting contestants'...
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September 18, 2024
False reports of explosives found in a car near a Trump rally spread online
NEW YORK (AP) — Law enforcement officials on Long Island worked quickly on Wednesday to publicly knock down social media posts falsely repor...
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September 18, 2024
As Trump seeks Polish-American votes, he and the Polish president are due to be at the same event
WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Donald Trump and Polish President Andrzej Duda are scheduled to attend the same event this Sunday in Pennsylvania, a b...
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September 18, 2024
2 adults shot to death in area of Keswick park, homicide unit investigating
Schools were placed in hold and secure, which has since been lifted
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September 18, 2024
Nigeria warns of possible flooding as Cameroon releases water from dam
ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — Nigeria's government warned of possible flooding in 11 states following the release of water from a dam in neighboring...
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September 18, 2024
UN General Assembly widely supports a Palestinian resolution demanding Israel end its occupation
The nonbinding vote in the 193-member world body was 124-14, with 43 abstentions.
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September 18, 2024
Atlantic City mayor, wife indicted for allegedly beating and abusing their teenage daughter
ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) — Atlantic City Mayor Marty Small Sr. and his wife, La'Quetta, the city's superintendent of schools, have been indi...
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September 18, 2024
Two years after Mahsa Amini death, Western allies sanction a dozen Iranian officials
WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S., Canada and Australia hit a group of Iranian officials with sanctions Wednesday for their participation in suppre...
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September 18, 2024
A vandal badly damaged a statue outside a St. Louis cathedral, police say
ST. LOUIS (AP) — A man used construction equipment to drop a heavy boom lift onto a sculpture that has stood for 25 years outside St. Louis'...
The Toronto Star
September 18, 2024
House speaker takes another crack at spending bill linked to proof of citizenship for new voters
WASHINGTON (AP) — The House is scheduled to vote Wednesday evening on Speaker Mike Johnson's proposal that links the funding of the federal...
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September 18, 2024
New Brunswick Indigenous group says Tory position on treaty rights ‘troublesome’
FREDERICTON - The six chiefs of the Wolastoqey Nation in New Brunswick have released results from a pre-election questionnaire sent to the p...
The Toronto Star
September 18, 2024
Explosions witnessed at Beirut funeral for Hezbollah members and a child killed in pager attack
The new blasts come with Lebanon still thrown into confusion and anger after the Tuesday's deadly pager bombings, which appeared to be a com...
The Toronto Star
September 18, 2024
Conservatives’ non-confidence motion will make no mention of carbon price
OTTAWA - Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre has confirmed he will ask the other opposition parties to bring down the Liberal government ne...
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September 18, 2024
Transport Canada orders plan to remove huge tidal power moorings left near N.S. town
HALIFAX - Transport Canada has ordered a bankrupt tidal power company and a bankruptcy trustee to produce a plan to remove four huge mooring...
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September 18, 2024