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Canada's Masse finishes fourth in 100m backstroke at world swimming championships
SINGAPORE - Canadian Kylie Masse narrowly missed the podium in the women's 100-metre backstroke final at the World Swimming Championships on Tuesday, finishing fourth. The five-time Olympic medallist ...
Jul 29, 2025
Gunman who killed 4 at Manhattan office building was targeting NFL headquarters, mayor says
NEW YORK (AP) - New York City Mayor Eric Adams said Tuesday that a gunman who killed four people at a Manhattan office building was trying to target the headquarters of the National Football League bu...
Jul 29, 2025
Gunman who killed 4 at Manhattan office building was targeting NFL headquarters, mayor says
NEW YORK (AP) - New York City Mayor Eric Adams said Tuesday that a gunman who killed four people at a Manhattan office building was trying to target the headquarters of the National Football League bu...
Jul 29, 2025
Photo Gallery: When moose took over Toronto
As people around the world welcomed a new millennium, Torontonians in the year 2000 were welcoming something even bigger - a herd of hundreds of life-size moose statues. Twenty-five years ago, Toronto...
Jul 29, 2025
Over 60,000 Palestinians have died in the 21-month Israel-Hamas war, Gaza’s Health Ministry says
DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) - Over 60,000 Palestinians have been killed in the 21-month Israel-Hamas war, Gaza's Health Ministry said Tuesday. The ministry, part of the Hamas-run government, said t...
Jul 29, 2025
Provincial deficits to narrow in coming years despite trade war: report
OTTAWA - Under pressure from the U.S. trade war and a slowing economy, Canada's provinces are all expected to run fiscal deficits this year - but a Conference Board of Canada report predicts those def...
Jul 29, 2025
'Worst-case scenario of famine' is happening in Gaza, food crisis experts say
TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) - The "worst-case scenario of famine is currently playing out in the Gaza Strip," the leading international authority on food crises said in a new alert Tuesday, predicting "wide...
Jul 29, 2025
In the news today: 10 candidates in Alberta byelection to debate
Here is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to bring you up to speed... 10 candidates in Alberta byelection to debate Ten candidates vying to represent Battle River-Crowfoot in the H...
Jul 29, 2025
Calgary mayor, Alberta minister to discuss bike lanes as threats of removal loom
EDMONTON - It was 10 years ago this month that Edmonton city staff returned a national traffic safety award when the councillors of the day voted to rip up a trio of bike lanes that played a small rol...
Jul 29, 2025
Katrina Chen's kids' book tells of gender-based violence. It's a story she knows well
BURNABY - Former British Columbia legislator Katrina Chen sits on a couch in her Burnaby home, reading aloud from the children's book she's co-written. "'Maybe,' Mommy tells me, 'It's time for a stron...
Jul 29, 2025