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UK ramps up 'no-deal' Brexit preparations amid impasse
LONDON - Britain’s government ramped up preparations Tuesday for the possibility that the country could leave the European Union in 101 days without a divorce deal - putting soldiers on standby ...
Dec 18, 2018
Shirley MacLaine to receive AARP Movies for Grownups honour
LOS ANGELES - Actor Shirley MacLaine will receive AARP the Magazine’s lifetime achievement honour at the Movies for Grownups Awards next year. The magazine announced Tuesday that MacLaine will a...
Dec 18, 2018
Meet the Santas: Inside the holly jolly world of professional Kriss Kringles
Saint Nick isn’t the only white-bearded man gearing up for the holidays. Across Canada, hundreds of professional Santas don the big red suit at malls, parties and private houses - inhabiting not...
Dec 18, 2018
Breath of fresh air: East Coast looks to international students to revive region
Gunny Brar has watched Sydney, Nova Scotia, transform since he first arrived at Cape Breton University in 2015. The school’s small student body of around 4,000 students is now made up of about h...
Dec 18, 2018
US home construction rose last month, led by apartments
WASHINGTON - U.S. developers broke ground on more homes last month, but the increase occurred entirely in apartments. The construction of new single-family houses fell. The Commerce Department said Tu...
Dec 18, 2018
For Trump, the economy is a potential 2020 storm cloud
WASHINGTON - Forget Robert Mueller. The greatest threat to President Donald Trump’s re-election bid may not be the slew of investigations closing in on his Oval Office but a possible economic sl...
Dec 18, 2018
Chinese internment camp factory sends sportswear to US
HOTAN, China - Barbed wire and hundreds of cameras ring a massive compound of more than 30 dormitories, schools, warehouses and workshops in China’s far west. Dozens of armed officers and a grow...
Dec 18, 2018
Judge delays Flynn sentencing, 'not hiding disgust' at crime
WASHINGTON - A federal judge Tuesday abruptly postponed the sentencing of President Donald Trump’s first national security adviser, Michael Flynn, declaring himself disgusted and disdainful of F...
Dec 18, 2018
Shutdown talk recedes after White House eases wall threat
WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump and leaders in Congress appeared to be pulling back Tuesday from a government shutdown over his $5 billion request for border wall funds, with the first signs of mo...
Dec 18, 2018
Judges push back against 'zero-tolerance' immigration policy
SAN DIEGO - The 14 defendants had been charged with entering the country illegally. But there was a problem: When their cases were called in court, they could not show up because they had already been...
Dec 18, 2018