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Biden halts border wall building after Trump's final surge
SAN DIEGO - In the days before Joe Biden became president, construction crews worked quickly to finish Donald Trump's wall at an iconic cross-border park overlooking the Pacific Ocean, which then-firs...
Jan 21, 2021
Asia Today: Shanghai outbreak prompts 2 hospital lockdowns
BEIJING - Shanghai has imposed lockdowns on two of China's best-known hospitals after they were linked to new coronavirus cases. Outpatient services have been suspended and Fudan University Shanghai C...
Jan 21, 2021
Man held without bond for threatening inauguration violence
CHICAGO - An Illinois man was ordered held without bond Thursday for allegedly threatening the lives of President Joe Biden and other Democrats before this week's inauguration. U.S. Magistrate Judge G...
Jan 21, 2021
Time, transparency needed as Biden inherits frazzled census
Battered by criticism that the 2020 census was dangerously politicized by the Trump administration, the U.S. Census Bureau under a new Biden administration has the tall task of restoring confidence in...
Jan 21, 2021
Mexico posts new daily highs for pandemic cases and deaths
MEXICO CITY - Mexico posted new one-day highs for the pandemic Thursday, with 22,339 newly confirmed coronavirus infections and 1,803 deaths from COVID-19 recorded for the previous 24 hours. The recen...
Jan 21, 2021
Nanaimo Pickleball Club among first groups to implement plan for safe indoor play
NANAIMO - Indoor sessions have returned to the Oliver Woods Community Centre for the Nanaimo Pickleball Club.Eight people allowed in the gym at one time with six different 90-minute singles slots for ...
Jan 21, 2021
Legal review shows British Columbia can't restrict interprovincial travel: Horgan
VICTORIA - The B.C. government says a review of legal options has made it clear it cannot prevent people from travelling to the province from elsewhere in Canada. Premier John Horgan says in a stateme...
Jan 21, 2021
Legal review shows British Columbia can't restrict interprovincial travel: Horgan
VICTORIA - The B.C. government says a review of legal options has made it clear it cannot prevent people from travelling to the province from elsewhere in Canada. Premier John Horgan says in a stateme...
Jan 21, 2021
World leaders cheer US return to climate fight under Biden
BERLIN - World leaders breathed an audible sigh of relief that the United States under President Joe Biden is rejoining the global effort to curb climate change, a cause that his predecessor had shunn...
Jan 21, 2021
CNN, MSNBC viewers flip for Biden; Fox audience slumps
NEW YORK - Nothing illustrates the political passions of a television network's audience quite like ratings for a presidential inaugural. The 6.53 million people who watched President Joe Biden take t...
Jan 21, 2021