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Florida governor rebuts vaccine 'pay-to-play' report on CBS
ORLANDO, Fla. - Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis pushed back aggressively Tuesday against a "60 Minutes" report that suggested he initially made a deal to distribute COVID-19 vaccines in a South Florida coun...
Apr 6, 2021
Refugee families urge Biden to keep promise to up admissions
SAN DIEGO - The families of refugees and their supporters, including 124 elected officials, sent President Joe Biden a letter Tuesday urging him to make good on his promise to boost refugee admissions...
Apr 6, 2021
Greenland election shows divide over rare-earth metals mine
HELSINKI - Greenland is holding an early parliamentary election Tuesday focused in part on whether the semi-autonomous Danish territory should allow international companies to mine the sparsely popula...
Apr 6, 2021
US boosts aid to Palestinians as some in Congress cry foul
WASHINGTON - The Biden administration is moving again to increase U.S. assistance to the Palestinians as it fires up a new Mideast policy that is directly opposite of the one pursued by its predecesso...
Apr 6, 2021
Toronto FC up for CONCACAF Champions League challenge of Mexico's Club Leon
Toronto FC kicks off its 2021 season in deep water Wednesday, taking on Club Leon in Mexico in the first leg of their Scotiabank CONCACAF Champions League round-of-16 tie. The timing of the tournament...
Apr 6, 2021
California's Pacific Gas & Electric charged in 2019 wildfire
SACRAMENTO, Calif. - A California prosecutor filed 33 criminal charges Tuesday against the troubled Pacific Gas & Electric for a 2019 wildfire officials blamed on the utility. The Sonoma County di...
Apr 6, 2021
Parts of Alberta's draft school curriculum plagiarized, academic finds
CALGARY - An expert in plagiarism says parts of Alberta's proposed curriculum for kindergarten and elementary schoolchildren were copied from other sources without credit.Sarah Elaine Eaton, a profess...
Apr 6, 2021
California plans to lift most pandemic restrictions June 15
SAN FRANCISCO - California plans to lift most coronavirus restrictions on businesses and workplaces June 15, with officials saying enough people should be vaccinated by then to allow for life to almos...
Apr 6, 2021
Montreal mosque says windows broken after man shot at building with air pistol
Montreal police say they will be investigating a video posted to social media that appears to show a man shooting an air pistol at a city mosque. The Centre Communautaire Islamique Assahaba in east-en...
Apr 6, 2021
Trudeau, O'Toole, demand accountability as Iranian officials indicted for PS752 crash
OTTAWA - Ten officials have been indicted in Iran over the 2020 military shootdown of a Ukrainian passenger plane that killed 176 people, but the move did nothing to quell Canadian demands for account...
Apr 6, 2021