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Budget deal allows far less money than Trump wanted for wall
WASHINGTON - Congressional negotiators reached agreement to prevent a government shutdown and finance construction of new barriers along the U.S.-Mexico border, overcoming a late-stage hang-up over im...
Feb 12, 2019
2 Parkland moms now divided over guns
PARKLAND, Fla. - It's an image that has become emblematic of the Parkland school massacre : two terrified moms outside Marjory Stoneman Douglas High, one of them a tall, weeping blonde with the black ...
Feb 12, 2019
Whitecaps sign Uruguayan striker Joaquin Ardaiz to year-long loan
VANCOUVER - The Vancouver Whitecaps have acquired striker Joaquin Ardaiz on a year-long loan from Swiss club FC Chiasso. Ardaiz is a 20-year-old from Uruguay and will take up a young designated p...
Feb 12, 2019
Edmonton quarterback Reilly expected to raise bar in CFL free agency
Mike Reilly has again risen the bar among CFL quarterbacks. Shortly after CFL free agency begins at noon ET on Tuesday, a league source said the Lions will announce they've signed Reilly, th...
Feb 12, 2019
More details expected on raids police link to money laundering network
MONTREAL - More details are expected today on multiple raids in Montreal and Toronto that police are linking to an extensive international money laundering network with ties to organized crime. T...
Feb 12, 2019
Smaller companies fear they'll be unable to pass on carbon tax costs: poll
OTTAWA - A large proportion of small- and medium-sized businesses soon to be subjected to Ottawa's carbon tax worry they'll be unable to pass along the bulk of the e...
Feb 12, 2019
CONCACAF creates club competition opening for Canadian Premier League team
TORONTO - It appears FC Edmonton, Hamilton's Forge FC or any other Canadian Premier League team could rule Central American and Caribbean club soccer or even take part in the FIFA Club World Cup,...
Feb 12, 2019
In the news today, Feb. 12
Four stories in the news for Tuesday, Feb. 12 --- BISSONNETTE SENTENCE TOO HARSH: PARENTS The parents of a man behind the deadly Quebec City mosque attack have issued an open letter que...
Feb 12, 2019
Police: 17 killed in fire at New Delhi hotel, 4 others hurt
NEW DELHI - Seventeen people died in a fire early Tuesday at a hotel in western New Delhi that left at least four others injured, police said. The fire at the Arpit Palace Hotel has been extinguished,...
Feb 12, 2019
Refugee footballer freed by Thailand returns to Australia
CANBERRA, Australia - A refugee soccer player thanked Australians on his return home Tuesday hours after the threat of extradition to Bahrain was lifted and three months after he was detained in Thail...
Feb 12, 2019