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A pandemic, economic questions and leadership rumblings in Manitoba politics
WINNIPEG - The COVID-19 pandemic will shape Manitoba politics in many ways in 2021. There will be an ongoing attempt to control outbreaks of the novel coronavirus and to keep hospitals from being over...
Dec 29, 2020
Nashville bomber left hints of trouble, but motive elusive
NASHVILLE - In the days before he detonated a bomb in downtown Nashville on Christmas, Anthony Quinn Warner changed his life in ways that suggest he never intended to survive the blast that killed him...
Dec 29, 2020
Mitchell makes layup with 7 seconds left, Jazz beat Thunder
OKLAHOMA CITY - Donovan Mitchell hit a go-ahead layup with 7 seconds left and finished with 20 points, lifting the Utah Jazz over the Oklahoma City Thunder 110-109 on Monday night. Bogan Bogdanovich s...
Dec 28, 2020
Amid pandemic, Pacific islands work to offset food shortages
JAKARTA, Indonesia - Coronavirus infections have barely touched many of the remote islands of the Pacific, but the pandemic's fallout has been enormous, disrupting the supply chain that brings crucial...
Dec 28, 2020
China sentences lawyer who reported on outbreak to 4 years
BEIJING - A Chinese court on Monday sentenced a former lawyer who reported on the early stage of the coronavirus outbreak to four years in prison on charges of "picking fights and provoking trouble," ...
Dec 28, 2020
House votes to override Trump's veto of defence bill
WASHINGTON - The Democratic-controlled House voted overwhelmingly Monday to override President Donald Trump's veto of a defence policy bill, setting the stage for what would be the first veto override...
Dec 28, 2020
US cuts military aid to El Salvador amid intense lobbying
MIAMI - The U.S. is slashing foreign military aid to El Salvador despite staunchly pro-American President Nayib Bukele's intense lobbying in Washington to counter criticism he has taken his country do...
Dec 28, 2020
Marc Basnight, longest serving NC Senate leader, dies at 73
RALEIGH, N.C. - Former state Sen. Marc Basnight, a Democrat from North Carolina's barrier islands who became one of North Carolina's most powerful contemporary political leaders while serving a record...
Dec 28, 2020
Fire damages immigrant gathering spots in southwest Missouri
NOEL, Mo. - At least two people were being treated for injuries at hospitals in southwest Missouri after a fire destroyed a grocery store and an adjacent mosque that were gathering spots for immigrant...
Dec 28, 2020
Asia Today: South Korea counts daily high of 40 virus deaths
SEOUL, Korea, Republic Of - South Korea says 40 more coronavirus patients have died in the past 24 hours, the highest daily fatalities since the pandemic began, as the country is grappling with surgin...
Dec 28, 2020