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Horgan says B.C. will focus on pandemic economic recovery, health reform in 2021
VICTORIA - Premier John Horgan says economic recovery and health-care changes are the British Columbia government's top priorities for 2021 after the COVID-19 pandemic tested people individually and t...
Dec 31, 2020
Minneapolis police shoot, kill man during traffic stop
MINNEAPOLIS - Police in Minneapolis shot and killed a man during a traffic stop on the city's south side Wednesday night, stirring anxiety about renewed protests following the first police-involved de...
Dec 30, 2020
Speedy Sir: Lewis Hamilton knighted in year-end royal honours
LONDON - Lewis Hamilton is now a "Sir" as well as a seven-time Formula One champion. Hamilton received a knighthood Wednesday as part of Queen Elizabeth II's New Year's honours list, which also recogn...
Dec 30, 2020
Police on report man was making bombs: 'Hindsight is 20/20'
NASHVILLE - More than a year before Anthony Warner detonated a Christmas Day bomb in downtown Nashville, officers visited his home after his girlfriend told police he was building bombs in a recreatio...
Dec 30, 2020
Trump push on $2K checks flops as GOP-led Senate won't vote
WASHINGTON - Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell all but shut the door Wednesday on President Donald Trump's push for $2,000 COVID-19 relief checks, declaring Congress has provided enough pandemic ...
Dec 30, 2020
Government: Colombia manual coca eradication most in decade
BOGOTA - Colombia manually eradicated 130,000 hectares of coca crops in 2020, the highest figure in the last decade, the government said. The figure easily tops the 94,670 hectares of coca manually er...
Dec 30, 2020
Speedy Sir: Lewis Hamilton knighted in year-end royal honours
LONDON - Lewis Hamilton is now a "Sir" as well as a seven-time Formula One champion. Hamilton received a knighthood Wednesday as part of Queen Elizabeth II's New Year's honours list, which also recogn...
Dec 30, 2020
Spurs' Becky Hammon first woman to direct NBA team
SAN ANTONIO - Becky Hammon became the first women to direct a team in NBA history, taking over the San Antonio Spurs on Wednesday night against the Los Angeles Lakers following Gregg Popovich's ejecti...
Dec 30, 2020
China gives conditional approval to Sinopharm vaccine
BEIJING - China has given conditional approval to a coronavirus vaccine developed by state-owned Sinopharm. The vaccine is the first one approved for general use in China. Chen Shifei, the deputy comm...
Dec 30, 2020
Top Stories 2020: Graduating Clippers find new homes after COVID-19 ends their junior careers
NANAIMO - Junior hockey athletes face an uncertain future after the COVID-19 pandemic. The six graduating players from the Nanaimo Clippers all had aspirations of continuing on in hockey, but several ...
Dec 30, 2020