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Evidence closed at Quebec truck attack trial, jury to hear final arguments next week
RIMOUSKI - The defence has finished presenting evidence in the murder trial of a Quebec man accused of using his truck to kill three pedestrians and injure nine others. Forty-year-old Steeve Gagnon ha...
Jun 13, 2025
Men who stole $6 million golden toilet from English mansion sentenced to prison terms
LONDON (AP) - Two men who stole a $6.4 million golden toilet from an English mansion were sentenced Friday to more than two years in prison. The 18-carat fully functioning toilet was on display as a p...
Jun 13, 2025
Kilmar Abrego Garcia pleads not guilty to human smuggling charges in Tennessee federal court
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Kilmar Abrego Garci pleaded not guilty to human smuggling charges during an arraignment in federal court in Tennessee on Friday. Abrego Garcia is a citizen of El Salvador who h...
Jun 13, 2025
Trump administration gives personal data of immigrant Medicaid enrollees to deportation officials
WASHINGTON (AP) - President Donald Trump's administration this week provided deportation officials with personal data -- including the immigration status -- on millions of Medicaid enrollees, a move t...
Jun 13, 2025
‘As clutch as it gets’: Record-setting Leon Draisaitl keeps stepping up for Oilers
SUNRISE - Leon Draisaitl keeps leaving it late. That's working out just fine for the Oilers. The big centre's overtime goal Thursday - his record-setting fourth extra-time winner this spring - pushed ...
Jun 13, 2025
Attorneys close Karen Read's murder trial by arguing if it was love gone wrong or a police cover-up
DEDHAM, Mass. (AP) - Lawyers in the murder trial of Karen Read began giving their closing arguments Friday after weeks of testimony in a highly divisive case in which the prosecution's theory of jaded...
Jun 13, 2025
US shifts military resources in Mideast in response to Israel strikes and possible Iran attack
WASHINGTON (AP) - The United States is shifting military resources, including ships, in the Middle East in response to Israel's strikes on Iran and a possible retaliatory attack by Tehran, two U.S. of...
Jun 13, 2025
Montreal’s Gabriel Diallo serves up quarterfinal upset in the Netherlands
'S-HERTOGENBOSCH - Montreal's Gabriel Diallo fired 19 aces to beat No.3 seed Karen Khachanov of Russia 7-6 (6), 3-6, 6-3 on Friday at the grass-court Libema Open. The Canadian won 74 per cent of his f...
Jun 13, 2025
Judge blocks Trump’s election executive order, siding with Democrats who called it overreach
ATLANTA (AP) - A federal judge on Friday blocked President Donald Trump's attempt to overhaul elections in the U.S., siding with a group of Democratic state attorneys general who challenged the effort...
Jun 13, 2025
German teenager Engel's historic run ends in straight-set loss to Auger-Aliassime
STUTTGART, Germany (AP) - A day after Justin Engel became the youngest tennis player in 40 years to reach a men's tour quarterfinal on grass, his run at the Stuttgart Open ended with a loss to Felix A...
Jun 13, 2025