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Stockholm meets deadline to submit bid for 2026 Olympics
STOCKHOLM - Sweden’s Olympic leaders met a deadline Friday to submit a 2026 Winter Games hosting plan after satisfying concerns of lawmakers in Stockholm which threatened to end the bid last yea...
Jan 11, 2019
Man charged with first-degree murder of Newfoundland Indigenous woman
CONNE RIVER, N.L. - A Newfoundland man has been charged with the first-degree murder of a 28-year-old Indigenous woman whose death shook her small, rural First Nation. The Miawpukek Mi’kamawey M...
Jan 11, 2019
No Canadians among 7 killed in Cuban bus crash: government
HAVANA - The federal government says no Canadians were among the seven people killed when a bus carrying tourists and local travellers crashed in far eastern Cuba. State media report that the bus was ...
Jan 11, 2019
Andreescu continues hot streak, qualifies for Aussie Open
MELBOURNE, Australia - Bianca Andreescu has followed up her wins last week over defending Australian Open champion Caroline Wozniacki and seven-time major winner Venus Williams by qualifying for the s...
Jan 11, 2019
IOC marketing chair from Japan investigated for corruption
PARIS - In the latest blow to the International Olympic Committee’s efforts to rid itself of scandal, marketing head Tsunekazu Takeda is being investigated for corruption related to the 2020 Tok...
Jan 11, 2019
Requests to bring in child brides OK'd; legal under US laws
WASHINGTON - Thousands of requests by men to bring in child and adolescent brides to live in the United States were approved over the past decade, according to government data obtained by The Associat...
Jan 11, 2019
As workers miss paychecks, shutdown set to hit record length
WASHINGTON - The partial government shutdown was on track Friday to become the longest closure in U.S. history as President Donald Trump and nervous Republicans scrambled to find a way out of the mess...
Jan 11, 2019
Ex-Nissan chair Ghosn indicted for alleged breach of trust
TOKYO - Nissan’s ex-chairman Carlos Ghosn was charged Friday with breach of trust, according to the Tokyo District Court, making the star executive’s release unlikely for months to come. G...
Jan 11, 2019
Rare bronze penny sells for more than $200K at auction
BOSTON - A rare 1943 bronze Lincoln penny has sold for more than $200,000 at a Florida auction. Heritage Auctions says more than 30 people bid on the rare coin Thursday night. Only 10 to 15 of these p...
Jan 11, 2019
How's the US economy doing? Shutdown makes it harder to say
WASHINGTON - The partial shutdown of the U.S. government has begun to make it harder to assess the health of the economy by delaying or distorting key reports on growth, spending and hiring. Governmen...
Jan 11, 2019