Murray Wood: Who's hot... and who's not
Every Friday, Murray Wood takes a look at the week's news and decides who's hot... and who's not. This week's list inclu...
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Trump says Islamic State leader dead after US raid in Syria
WASHINGTON - The shadowy leader of the Islamic State group who presided over its global jihad and became arguably the world's most wanted man, is dead after being targeted by a U.S. military raid in S...
Oct 27, 2019
Trudeau could lose power in Canada’s election Monday
TORONTO (AP) - Ian Bremmer remembers the first time he met Justin Trudeau, at the annual gathering of elites in the Swiss ski resort of Davos. Bremmer, a prominent foreign policy expert, said Canada's...
Oct 18, 2019 Liberal leader Justin Trudeau makes a campaign stop in Saint-Hyacinthe, Quebec on Wednesday Oct. 16, 2019. (Sean Kilpatrick/The Canadian Press via AP)
‘See you at the polls’: Trump and Pelosi have it out
WASHINGTON - He said she's a "third-grade" politician. She said he's having a meltdown. And with that President Donald Trump and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi chalked up the latest explosive meeting that...
Oct 17, 2019
VP Mike Pence says Turkey agrees to ceasefire in Syria
ANKARA, Turkey (AP) - The U.S. and Turkey agreed Thursday to a five-day cease-fire in the Turks' attacks on Kurdish fighters in northern Syria to allow the Kurds to withdraw to roughly 20 miles away f...
Oct 17, 2019 Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, right, shakes hands with U.S Vice President Mike Pence, prior to their talks at the Presidential Palace in Ankara, Turkey, Thursday, Oct. 17, 2019. A high level U.S. delegation arrived in Turkey on Thursday for talks on a cease-fire in Syria. (Presidential Press Service via AP, Pool)
Bomb scare at Montana school turns out to be false alarm
HELENA, Mont. - Authorities evacuated an elementary school in Montana's capital city on Tuesday after officials found what they thought was the remnants of a homemade bomb, but it turned out to be a p...
Oct 15, 2019
Former WH aide: John Bolton called Giuliani a ‘hand grenade’
WASHINGTON - National security adviser John Bolton was so alarmed by Rudy Giuliani's back-channel activities in Ukraine that he described President Donald Trump's personal lawyer as a "hand grenade wh...
Oct 15, 2019
IMF downgrades outlook for world economy; 2019 estimate for Canada unchanged
WASHINGTON - The International Monetary Fund is further downgrading its outlook for the world economy, predicting that growth this year will be the weakest since the 2008 financial crisis primarily be...
Oct 15, 2019
1 dead, 3 missing after hotel collapse in New Orleans
NEW ORLEANS - One person has been confirmed killed and three are unaccounted for after a large portion of a hotel under construction in New Orleans suddenly collapsed. City officials and Gov. John Bel...
Oct 12, 2019 An under construction Hard Rock Hotel in New Orleans collapsed on Oct. 10, 2019 (Jenci/Twitter)
Boeing, FAA both faulted in certification of the 737 Max
A panel of international aviation regulators found that Boeing withheld key information about the 737 Max from pilots and regulators, and the Federal Aviation Administration lacked the expertise to un...
Oct 11, 2019
Former envoy defies Trump, testifies he pushed to oust her
WASHINGTON (AP) - Testifying in defiance of President Donald Trump's ban, former U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch told House impeachment investigators Friday that Trump himself had pressur...
Oct 11, 2019
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