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Black leaders cheer Georgia success, push for more progress
What started as a day of celebration for Black organizers, voters and other Georgians who helped deliver two historic Senate runoff victories was overshadowed Wednesday when a violent, mostly white mo...
Jan 07, 2021
Trump finally concedes - amid talk of ouster from office
WASHINGTON - With 13 days left in his term, President Donald Trump finally bent to reality on Thursday amid growing talk of trying to force him out early, acknowledging he'll peacefully leave after Co...
Jan 07, 2021
Conservative media decry Capitol riot, but grievances remain
NEW YORK - Media outlets that appeal to conservatives offered condemnations, explanations and deflections following the U.S. Capitol riot by President Donald Trump's supporters, but little introspecti...
Jan 07, 2021
Curl B.C. cancels provincial men's and women's championships scheduled for Kamloops
KAMLOOPS --- We are sad to announce that restrictions on group sport have been extended until Feb. 5. On Dec. 3 the Provincial Health Officer Dr Bonnie Henry clarified that curling was included in the...
Jan 07, 2021
Neil Sheehan, Pentagon Papers reporter, Vietnam author, dies
WASHINGTON - Neil Sheehan, a reporter and Pulitzer Prize-winning author who broke the story of the Pentagon Papers for The New York Times and who chronicled the deception at the heart of the Vietnam W...
Jan 07, 2021
Cowichan First Nation issues stay-at-home order as COVID-19 spreads on its reserve
DUNCAN, B.C. - The Cowichan First Nation on Vancouver Island has issued a shelter-in-place order as COVID-19 spreads through its territory. The First Nation says in a statement that there have been 23...
Jan 07, 2021
New program aims to help Kamloops businesses embrace technological transformation
KAMLOOPS - Even before the COVID-19 pandemic, technology was changing how businesses were run and customers were reached. As a result of the pandemic, that change has been accelerated. That's one of t...
Jan 07, 2021
Hurt feelings, anger linger after Pence, Trump clash
WASHINGTON - They were never a natural fit, the straight-laced evangelical and the brash reality TV star. But for more than four years, President Donald Trump and Vice-President Mike Pence made their ...
Jan 07, 2021
Indonesian cleric who inspired extremists freed from prison
JAKARTA, Indonesia - A convicted firebrand cleric who inspired the Bali bombers and other violent extremists walked free from an Indonesian prison Friday after completing his sentence for funding the ...
Jan 07, 2021
Capitol Police rejected offers of federal help to quell mob
WASHINGTON - Three days before supporters of President Donald Trump rioted at the Capitol, the Pentagon asked the U.S Capitol Police if it needed National Guard manpower. And as the mob descended on t...
Jan 07, 2021
