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US new home sales slid 12.8% in July
WASHINGTON - Sales of new U.S. homes fell a steep 12.8% in July as higher prices and limited inventory sidelined would-be buyers. The Commerce Department said Friday that new homes sold at a seasonall...
Aug 23, 2019
Women, late-in-life new authors expand Japanese literature
TOKYO - The works receiving one of Japan's most coveted literary awards, the Naoki Prize, have something new in common: For the first time in 85 years, all six of the nominated authors are women. Japa...
Aug 23, 2019
Judge close to naming special prosecutor in Smollett case
CHICAGO - An Illinois judge seems close to appointing a special prosecutor to look into why state prosecutors abruptly dropped charges against actor Jussie Smollett accusing him of staging a racist, a...
Aug 23, 2019
Capitals star Kuznetsov banned from Russia team for 4 years
GENEVA - Washington Capitals centre Evgeny Kuznetsov tested positive for cocaine at the world championship and has been banned from the Russian national team for four years. Kuznetsov failed a doping ...
Aug 23, 2019
China announces tariff hike on $75 billion of US products
BEIJING - China on Friday announced tariff hikes on $75 billion of U.S. products in retaliation for President Donald Trump's latest planned increase, deepening a conflict over trade and technology tha...
Aug 23, 2019
Liberals block hearings into scathing ethics report on SNC-Lavalin affair
OTTAWA - Cries of a coverup competed with claims of pre-election, hyper-partisan excess Wednesday after Liberal MPs blocked an opposition attempt to hold hearings on ethics co...
Aug 23, 2019
Polish official: Deadly lightning storm like terror attack
WARSAW, Poland - A Polish emergency official on Friday likened the deadly lightning storm over the Tatra Mountains that killed at least five people and injured more than 150 to a terror attack in term...
Aug 23, 2019
Jury backs Nicholas Sparks in lawsuit by former school head
RALEIGH, N.C. - A federal jury sided Wednesday with novelist Nicholas Sparks and the private Christian school he founded in his North Carolina hometown, dismissing claims by the school's former headma...
Aug 23, 2019
Billionaire David Koch, conservative donor, dies at age 79
WASHINGTON - David H. Koch, executive vice-president of Koch Industries Inc. and a long-time philanthropist, has died at age 79. His older brother, Charles, announced the death on Friday, saying, "It ...
Aug 23, 2019
China says British consulate staffer detained 15 days
HONG KONG - China said Wednesday a staffer at the British consulate in Hong Kong has been given 15 days of administrative detention in the city of Shenzhen for violating regulations on public order. T...
Aug 23, 2019