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US manufacturing activity at highest levels in two years
WASHINGTON - U.S. manufacturing posted a strong gain in October to the highest level in two years even as coronavirus cases have begun to surge again in many parts of the country. The Institute for Su...
Nov 02, 2020
Toronto Wolfpack fail to win reinstatement to England's top tier of rugby league
TORONTO - The Toronto Wolfpack have lost their bid for reinstatement into Super League next year.The decision was made by the other 11 Super League teams, the Rugby Football League and Super League ch...
Nov 02, 2020
'It's such a big loss': Sister says family in shock after brother killed in Quebec
Just hours after Marie-Jo Duchesne had shared laughs with her older brother, who'd been out hiking on a sunny Saturday in Quebec, the heartbreaking call came informing her of Francois Duchesne's death...
Nov 02, 2020
N.B. shooter returns to stand at Fredericton first-degree murder trial
FREDERICTON - Matthew Raymond is back on the witness stand today as his murder trial in connection with the 2018 mass shooting in Fredericton enters its eighth week. Raymond, 50, is charged with first...
Nov 02, 2020
Vatican breaks silence, explains pope's civil union comments
ROME - The Vatican says Pope Francis' comments on gay civil unions were taken out of context in a documentary that spliced together parts of an old interview, but still confirmed Francis' belief that ...
Nov 02, 2020
BC Housing steps in to co-operate rundown Fifth St. housing project
NANAIMO - BC Housing has stepped in to operate a dilapidated affordable housing complex in Nanaimo's Harewood neighbourhood. The Sanala townhouses on the corner of Fifth St. and Georgia Ave., is in a ...
Nov 02, 2020
'American Idol' contestant Nikki McKibbin dies at 42
ARLINGTON, Texas - Nikki McKibbin, a singer from Texas best known for her third place finish in the first season of American Idol, has died. She was 42. McKibbin's husband, Craig Sadler, confirmed her...
Nov 02, 2020
Sunset falls on a historic season for the drive-in
NEW YORK - Julia Wiggin was still shivering after running out to hang up the weekend's marquee - "Ghostbusters," "Texas Chainsaw Massacre" - at her Northfield Drive-in near Hinsdale, New Hampshire. "I...
Nov 02, 2020
What a fluke: Dutch whale tail sculpture catches metro train
SPIJKENISSE, Netherlands - This really was a fluke. The driver of a metro train escaped injury when the front carriage rammed through the end of an elevated section of rails and was caught by a sculpt...
Nov 02, 2020
Philippines: 16 dead, thousands of homes damaged in typhoon
MANILA, Philippines - At least 16 people were killed as Typhoon Goni lashed the Philippines over the weekend, and about 13,000 shanties and houses were damaged or swept away in the eastern island prov...
Nov 02, 2020