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International students frustrated by federal work limits during pandemic
TORONTO - Pooria Behrouzy was honoured to be offered a full-time job as a COVID-19 vaccine support worker at Trillium Health Partners last month. The international student in health informatics at Geo...
Jan 15, 2021
Rare conviction of South Sudan soldiers for rape raises hope
YEI RIVER, South Sudan - First, the soldiers stole their belongings. Then they took their food. On their third and final visit, the woman said, the soldiers raped her and her daughter-in-law until the...
Jan 15, 2021
Capitol rioters included highly trained ex-military and cops
WASHINGTON - As President Donald Trump's supporters massed outside the Capitol last week and sang the national anthem, a line of men wearing olive-drab helmets and body armour trudged purposefully up ...
Jan 15, 2021
Trump impeachment trial to focus on his attacks on election
WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump's historic second impeachment could go to trial as soon as Inauguration Day, with U.S. senators serving not only as jurors but as shaken personal witnesses and vict...
Jan 15, 2021
Pelosi's nine impeachment managers hope to 'finish the job'
WASHINGTON - House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has tapped nine of her most trusted allies in the House to argue the case for President Donald Trump's impeachment. The Democrats, all of whom are lawyers and m...
Jan 15, 2021
Impeachment complicates the early days of Biden's presidency
WASHINGTON - President-elect Joe Biden already faces the daunting task of steering a newly announced $1.9 trillion coronavirus relief bill through a closely divided Congress as the pandemic and its ec...
Jan 15, 2021
Fate of Biden agenda rests with Schumer in 50-50 Senate
WASHINGTON - Chuck Schumer is used to drinking from a firehose. But the incoming Senate majority leader has never taken on such a torrent of challenges, with the opening days of both the Biden adminis...
Jan 15, 2021
US down to 2,500 troops in Afghanistan, as ordered by Trump
WASHINGTON - The U.S. military has met its goal of reducing the number of troops in Afghanistan to about 2,500 by Friday, a drawdown that appears to violate a last-minute congressional prohibition. Pr...
Jan 15, 2021
Sparse trees, little work for woodcutters in squeezed Gaza
GAZA, Palestinian Territory - With a chainsaw in his car, Ahmed Abdelal tours the Gaza Strip, asking around for people wanting to cut down trees, regrow orchards or make way for construction. One of t...
Jan 15, 2021
In coronavirus vaccine drive, Deep South falls behind
ATLANTA - The coronavirus vaccines have been rolled out unevenly across the U.S., but four states in the Deep South have had particularly dismal inoculation rates that have alarmed health experts and ...
Jan 15, 2021