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Papers believed to be lost in Holocaust go on display in US
NEW YORK - The American public is getting a chance to view newly discovered Jewish documents that had been presumed destroyed during the Holocaust. Ten documents brought over from Lithuania went on di...
Oct 24, 2017
University president's hot sauces benefit scholarship fund
GLASSBORO, N.J. - The president of a New Jersey university is using his culinary skills and his hot sauces to help raise money for student scholarships. Rowan University president Ali Houshmand has be...
Oct 24, 2017
Self-represented defendants increasingly common, but bring challenges:experts
Legal experts say the spectacle of an accused murderer grilling the father of his alleged victim on the witness stand is an unusual manifestation of an increasingly common occurrence in the Canadian j...
Oct 24, 2017
It's Trump's party now: Another GOPer quits, laments Trumpist takeover
WASHINGTON - A first-term conservative lawmaker announced his abrupt retirement from the U.S. Senate in a dramatic speech Tuesday, in which he bemoaned what he called the reckless, abnormal, undignifi...
Oct 24, 2017
Liberal government spending plans extend well beyond helping middle class
OTTAWA - The Liberal government’s fall economic update talking points focused on what they want to spend money on: increasing benefits for the middle and working class, and making the tax system...
Oct 24, 2017
Highlights from the federal government's fall economic update, tabled Tuesday
OTTAWA - The federal Liberals gave an update Tuesday on the government’s finances, and with it, how they plan to spend a windfall generated by better than expected economic growth. Here are some...
Oct 24, 2017
Trudeau credits Liberal economic agenda for upset win in Quebec byelection
OTTAWA - A triumphant Justin Trudeau contends the Liberals’ stunning byelection victory in Quebec’s nationalist heartland is a vote of confidence in his government’s economic agenda....
Oct 24, 2017
Bill held after abuse victims' lawyer questions reorganization of church diocese
HALIFAX - A Nova Scotia legislature committee has shelved a private members bill that would reorganize the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Halifax-Yarmouth amid concerns from a lawyer representing sexua...
Oct 24, 2017
Federal court clears way for immigrant teen to get abortion
WASHINGTON - A federal appeals court on Tuesday cleared the way for a 17-year-old immigrant held in custody in Texas to obtain an abortion. The full U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia ...
Oct 24, 2017
Polish band members plead not guilty to raping woman on bus
SPOKANE, Wash. - All four members of a Polish heavy metal band have pleaded not guilty to charges of kidnapping and raping a woman on their tour bus after a concert this summer in Washington state. Th...
Oct 24, 2017