Murray Wood: Isn't it time for more 'we' than 'oui' in Rideau Hall?
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US new home sales jump 13.8% in June
WASHINGTON - Sales of new homes rose a sharp 13.8% in June, the second straight increase after two months when sales plunged as the country went into lockdown because of the coronavirus. The Commerce ...
Jul 24, 2020
Branson tries to find affordable housing for the homeless
BRANSON, Mo. - It was a windy day in early June, and Cecelia Dardnella McGrath had spent much of the morning crying. She woke that day to police ordering her to pack up her belongings and leave the wo...
Jul 24, 2020
Barack Obama to appear on Michelle Obama's podcast debut
LOS ANGELES - The first guest of Michelle Obama's new podcast will have a familiar presidential voice: Barack Obama. The former United States president is expected to appear on "The Michelle Obama Pod...
Jul 24, 2020
AP-NORC poll: Nearly half say job lost to virus won't return
WASHINGTON - Nearly half of Americans whose families experienced a layoff during the coronavirus pandemic now believe those jobs are lost forever, a new poll shows, a sign of increasing pessimism that...
Jul 24, 2020
Goldman Sachs and Malaysia reach $3.9B settlement over 1MDB
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia - Malaysia's government said Friday it has reached a $3.9 billion settlement with Goldman Sachs in exchange for dropping criminal charges against the bank over bond sales that r...
Jul 24, 2020
Beijing partly reopens movie theatres as virus declines
Beijing partially reopened movie theatres Friday as the threat from the coronavirus continues to recede in China's capital. Cinemas in parts of the city deemed at low risk of cross-infection began adm...
Jul 24, 2020
Critic of Chinese leader expelled from party on graft charge
BEIJING - The former chairman of a state-owned real estate company who publicly criticized President Xi Jinping's handling of the coronavirus pandemic has been expelled from the ruling Communist Party...
Jul 23, 2020
Charges dropped against Thai Red Bull heir in fatal crash
BANGKOK - Prosecutors in Thailand have dropped all charges against a Thai heir to the Red Bull energy drink fortune who was accused of killing a Bangkok police officer in a 2012 car crash, officials s...
Jul 23, 2020
Malaysia affirms social media users exempt from license rule
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia - Malaysia made an embarrassing U-turn on Friday after a minister sparked a furor over his announcement that all video production, including those on social media, must be licen...
Jul 23, 2020
Journalist held for 6 years gains New Zealand refugee status
WELLINGTON, New Zealand - A journalist who fled Iran and then exposed Australia's degrading treatment of asylum-seekers while being held against his will for six years has been granted refugee status ...
Jul 23, 2020
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