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Migrant detainees have right to plead for freedom before judges, Supreme Court
OTTAWA - The Supreme Court says a Pakistani man being held in immigration detention had the right to challenge his imprisonment in person before a judge. Although Tusif Ur Rehman Chhina was deported t...
May 10, 2019
Orchestra searching for child who charmed crowd with 'wow!'
BOSTON - America's oldest performing arts group is looking for a child who was literally wowed by a recent classical music concert. The Handel & Haydn Society had just finished its rendition of Mo...
May 10, 2019
Clooney hopes media will be 'kinder' to Meghan the mom
LOS ANGELES - George Clooney is hoping the media will be gentler to Meghan, the Duchess of Sussex, after she gave birth to a baby boy. "I think people should be a little kinder. She's a young woman wh...
May 10, 2019
Five taken to hospital after plane, fuel truck collide at Pearson airport
MISSISSAUGA, Ont. - A spokesperson for Jazz Aviation says five people were taken to hospital after a fuel truck collided with a plane on the tarmac at Toronto Pearson airport this morning. D...
May 10, 2019
Slain teen charged attacker in Colorado school shooting
HIGHLANDS RANCH, Colo. - When a gunman burst into his high school classroom, Kendrick Castillo did not hesitate. The 18-year-old immediately charged, pinning the attacker to the wall before Castillo w...
May 10, 2019
Man arrested in 1985 killing of Hollywood TV director
LOS ANGELES - A man charged with bludgeoning and strangling to death a Hollywood television director more than three decades ago was arrested Thursday in North Carolina after police said DNA and a con...
May 10, 2019
Conan O'Brien settles joke-theft lawsuit weeks before trial
SAN DIEGO - Conan O'Brien has made peace with a man who heckled him not from the crowd but the courts. O'Brien and several co-defendants, including his writing staff, agreed Thursday to settle a 2015 ...
May 10, 2019
US hikes tariffs on Chinese goods, Beijing vows retaliation
BEIJING - President Donald Trump's latest tariff hike on Chinese goods took effect Friday and Beijing said it would retaliate, escalating a battle over China's technology ambitions and other trade ten...
May 10, 2019
Christian woman acquitted of blasphemy in Pakistan arrives in Canada: lawyer
OTTAWA - Conservatives in Canada want the federal government and the international community to push Pakistan to address its "abhorrent misuse of blasphemy laws" after the safe arrival ...
May 10, 2019
Supreme Court to rule on migrant detainees' rights to challenge incarceration
OTTAWA - The Supreme Court is to rule today on whether immigration detainees have the right to challenge their detentions in person before judges. Migrants who do not hold Canadian citizensh...
May 10, 2019