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NFL owners approve 17-game regular season, 3 preseason games
The NFL is increasing the regular season to 17 games and reducing the preseason to three games. Team owners on Tuesday approved the 17th game as expected, marking the first time in 43 years the regula...
Mar 30, 2021
Orlando Pride trades Canadian Jordyn Listro to expansion Kansas City NWSL
KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Expansion Kansas City NWSL has acquired Canadian international midfielder Jordyn Listro from the Orlando Pride in exchange for a third-round pick in the 2022 draft. The draft pick c...
Mar 30, 2021
Survey suggests Canadians looked to the skies, saw more UFOs during pandemic
WINNIPEG - A new survey suggests Canadians spotted more UFOs last year during the COVID-19 pandemic. Chris Rutkowski with Ufology Research in Winnipeg says sightings of unidentified flying objects acr...
Mar 30, 2021
Myanmar junta deepens violence with new air attacks
MAE SAM LAEP, Thailand - Violence in eastern Myanmar, including air raids that drove thousands of members of the Karen ethnic minority to seek shelter across the border in Thailand, deepened Tuesday w...
Mar 30, 2021
EU, US pledge more than $1 billion to tackle Syria's crisis
BRUSSELS - The European Union and the United States pledged a combined $1.2 billion in aid Tuesday to help tackle war-ravaged Syria's deepening humanitarian and economic crises. The promise of aid com...
Mar 30, 2021
Two space fans get seats on billionaire's private flight
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - A billionaire's private SpaceX flight filled its two remaining seats Tuesday with a scientist-teacher and a data engineer whose college friend actually won a spot but gave him t...
Mar 30, 2021
B.C. auditor general postpones 10 performance audits, cites pandemic
VICTORIA - British Columbia's auditor general says the COVID-19 pandemic is behind the postponement of 10 performance audits underway by his office. Michael Pickup says in a report today that evolving...
Mar 30, 2021
Germany to restrict AstraZeneca use in under-60s over clots
BERLIN - German health officials agreed Tuesday to restrict the use of AstraZeneca's coronavirus vaccine in people under 60, amid fresh concern over unusual blood clots reported in a tiny number of th...
Mar 30, 2021
Latest graphic novel about John Lewis coming in August
NEW YORK - The award-winning series of graphic novels about congressman and civil rights activist John Lewis will continue a year after his death. Abrams announced Tuesday that "Run: Book One" will be...
Mar 30, 2021
Teacher who confronted B.C. stabbing suspect with umbrella did what is right: sister
VANCOUVER - The sister of a British Columbia woman who took on a stabbing suspect with an umbrella says her sibling always does what she believes is right. Sheloah Klausen, a school teacher in North V...
Mar 30, 2021