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Trial of Diacks exposes dark backdrop of track golden era
PARIS - As Usain Bolt set the world ablaze, making athletics the hottest ticket at the Olympic Games, the sport was also being eaten from within. That grim picture has emerged from a corruption trial ...
Jun 18, 2020
Spanish league says audiences up by nearly 50% after break
MADRID - International viewership for Spanish soccer games increased by nearly 50% after they returned from the break caused by the coronavirus pandemic, the league said Thursday. Figures for the firs...
Jun 18, 2020
Supreme Court of Canada orders new trial for man in bail-breach case
OTTAWA - The Supreme of Court of Canada has sided with a man who was convicted of failing to comply with police checks while out on bail. In its unanimous ruling today, the high court ordered a new tr...
Jun 18, 2020
Eng forced off Canadian wheelchair basketball team by international changes
OTTAWA - A realigning of standards on who can compete in Paralympic wheelchair basketball has forced Canadian veteran David Eng off the national team. Canada's flagbearer at the 2016 Summer Paralympic...
Jun 18, 2020
Federal deficit could hit $256 billion, PBO says in new report
OTTAWA - The parliamentary budget officer says in a new report that this year's federal deficit could hit $256 billion due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The result, posted in a report ...
Jun 18, 2020
Top seller 'Antiracist Baby' to be released as picture book
NEW YORK - A picture book edition of Ibram X. Kendi's "Antiracist Baby," one of the country's top-selling books since the death last month of George Floyd, is coming out July 14. "Antiracist Baby" wen...
Jun 18, 2020
Jean Kennedy Smith, last surviving sibling of JFK, dies
NEW YORK - Jean Kennedy Smith, the last surviving sibling of President John F. Kennedy and a former ambassador to Ireland, died Wednesday, her daughter confirmed to The New York Times. She was 92. Smi...
Jun 18, 2020
No call to buck, rodeo bulls and broncs idled by COVID-19 pandemic
CALGARY - Get Smart and Stevie Knicks are lounging in the penthouse pasture. Blackstone After Party is having sex. Rodeo announcers constantly refer to bucking stock as athletes and poi...
Jun 18, 2020
World War II forces sweetheart singer Vera Lynn dies at 103
LONDON - Dame Vera Lynn, the endearingly popular "Forces' Sweetheart" who serenaded British troops abroad during World War II, has died at 103. During the war and long after, Lynn got crowds singing, ...
Jun 18, 2020
N.S. inmates worry housing during COVID-19 could end unless funding extended
HALIFAX - Several advocacy groups in Nova Scotia say 20 provincial inmates who shifted to community housing during the COVID-19 crisis could lose their residences by the end o...
Jun 18, 2020