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NEW YORK (AP) — Smoke from Canadian wildfires poured into the US East Coast and Midwest on Wednesday, covering the capitals of both nations in an unhealthy haze, holding up flights at major airports and prompting people to fish out...
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RICHMOND, Virginia (AP) — Seven people were shot, two fatally, when gunfire rang out Tuesday outside a downtown theatre in Richmond, Virginia, where a high school graduation ceremony had just ended, causing hundreds of attendees to flee in...
NEW YORK (AP) — Chris Licht is out after a year as chief executive at CNN, following a series of missteps and plunging ratings. David Zaslav, the CEO of CNN parent company Warner Bros Discovery, announced the leadership change on...
KINGSTOWN (CMC): Canada Tuesday said it will allow visa-free travel to “known travellers” from 13 more countries, including St Vincent and the Grenadines passport holders. The visa-free travel has been extended to Antigua and Barbuda, St Lucia,...
NEW YORK (AP): Former New Jersey Governor Chris Christie has filed paperwork formally launching his bid for the Republican nomination for president ahead of a town hall event in New Hampshire on Tuesday evening. Christie has cast himself as the...
PORT-AU-PRINCE, (AP): An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 4.9 struck southern Haiti early Tuesday, killing at least four people and injuring 36 others, authorities said. The quake struck before dawn near the southwestern coastal city of...
KHERSON, Ukraine (AP) — As shelling from Russia's war on Ukraine echoed overhead, dozens of evacuees on an island in the Dnieper River scurried onto the tops of military trucks or into rafts to flee rising floodwaters caused by a dam...
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Microsoft will pay a fine of $20 million to settle Federal Trade Commission charges that it illegally collected and retained the data of children who signed up to use its Xbox video game console. The agency...
The Westmoreland police are renewing their appeal to locate relatives of a woman whose decomposing body was found in a drain in Chantilly district. The body is about 5 feet 6 inches long and clad in a blue blouse, black and red hooded jacket and...
WASHINGTON (AP) — The global economy is likely slowing sharply this year, hobbled by high interest rates, the repercussions of Russia's invasion of Ukraine and the lingering effects of the coronavirus pandemic. That's the latest...
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — The wall of a major dam in southern Ukraine collapsed Tuesday, triggering floods, endangering Europe's largest nuclear power plant and threatening drinking water supplies as both sides in the war scrambled...
OMAHA BEACH (AP): The D-Day invasion that helped change the course of World War II was unprecedented in scale and audacity. As veterans and world dignitaries commemorate the 79th anniversary of the operation, here is a look at some details about...
PORT-AU-PRINCE (AP): The death toll from the heavy floods that hit Haiti over the weekend has risen to 42, with another 11 people missing, the authorities said on Monday. At least 85 people are injured, and more than 13,600 homes were flooded,...
CANBERRA (AP): An Australian woman who spent 20 years in prison was pardoned and released Monday based on new scientific evidence that her four children died by natural causes as she had insisted. The pardon was seen as the quickest way of getting...
CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — An Australian woman who spent 20 years in prison was pardoned and released Monday based on new scientific evidence that her four children died by natural causes as she had insisted. The pardon was seen as the...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Thousands of Microsoft Outlook users reported issues with accessing and using the email platform Monday morning. Microsoft 365 outage and problem reports peaked at almost 18,000 shortly after 11 a.m. Eastern Monday morning,...
