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Microsoft Exchange email hack was caused by China, US says
WASHINGTON - The Biden administration on Monday blamed China for a hack of Microsoft Exchange email server software that compromised tens of thousands of computers around the world earlier this year. ...
Jul 19, 2021
Biden transfers 1st Guantanamo detainee to home country
WASHINGTON - The Biden administration on Monday transferred a detainee out of the Guantnamo Bay detention facility for the first time, sending a Moroccan man back home years after he was recommended f...
Jul 19, 2021
Olympic athlete tests positive in Tokyo days before 1st game
TOKYO (AP) - A third athlete at the Olympic Village in Tokyo has tested positive for COVID-19 with the Czech Republic team reporting the latest case Monday. Beach volleyball player Ondej Perui's openi...
Jul 19, 2021
Top Olympic sponsor Toyota pulls Games-related TV ads
TOKYO (AP) - Toyota won't be airing any Olympic-themed advertisements on Japanese television during the Tokyo Games despite being one of the IOC's top corporate sponsors. The extraordinary decision by...
Jul 19, 2021
B.C's smoking wildfires and Annamie Paul's reprieve: In The News for July 19
In The News is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to kickstart your day. Here is what's on the radar of our editors for the morning of July 19 ... What we are watching in Canada ......
Jul 19, 2021
Black public servant files complaint over alleged 'slaves' comment in the workplace
OTTAWA - Monica Agard says she was chatting with a colleague about her workload and looming deadlines when a supervisor passing by cut into their conversation. "We should go back to the good old days ...
Jul 19, 2021
'Miss the drumbeat': the return of powwow season welcomed by First Nations
Under the early evening sun, dancers from across Canada and the United States filed onto the powwow grounds at Alexis Nakota Sioux Nation in central Alberta. It was the first time in two years. The da...
Jul 19, 2021
Canada set to receive 7.1 million COVID-19 vaccine doses this week
OTTAWA - The federal government is expecting to receive about 7.1 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines this week, as it adjusts its distribution strategy amid waning vaccination rates and substantial su...
Jul 19, 2021
Japan girds for a surreal Olympics, and questions are plenty
TOKYO (AP) - After a yearlong delay and months of hand-wringing that rippled across a pandemic-inflected world, a Summer Games unlike any other is at hand. It's an Olympics, sure, but also, in a very ...
Jul 18, 2021
Canada pays for conceding a goal in the first minute, beaten 1-0 by U.S. at Gold Cup
KANSAS CITY - Canada conceded a goal 20 seconds in and lost 1-0 to the U.S. in their final preliminary-round game Sunday at the Gold Cup. The Canadian men found their way back into the game after Shaq...
Jul 18, 2021