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Russian sentenced to 18 months for being agent for Kremlin
WASHINGTON - A Russian woman who admitted to being a secret agent for the Kremlin has been sentenced to 18 months in prison. Maria Butina has been jailed since her July 2018 arrest and will get credit...
Apr 26, 2019
Trump to keep fighting opioids 'until our job is done'
ATLANTA - President Donald Trump pledged on Wednesday to battle the deadly epidemic of opioid drug abuse "until our job is done," and he claimed progress even though it is unclear whether the crisis h...
Apr 26, 2019
Trudeau government ran $3.1-billion surplus in first 11 months of 2018-19
OTTAWA - A preliminary estimate of the federal books says the government posted a surplus of $3.1 billion through the first 11 months of the fiscal year. The number in the Finance Department's&nb...
Apr 26, 2019
Veteran jockey Patrick Husbands returns to Woodbine following injury
TORONTO - Veteran jockey Patrick Husbands is poised to make his 2019 debut Saturday at Woodbine Racetrack. The 45-year-old Barbados native suffered a broken pelvis last November after being dismo...
Apr 26, 2019
Rising Saint John River frustrating swath of southern New Brunswick
FREDERICTON - Thane Mallory says the picturesque water view out the back window is what keeps him going back every day to Gulliver's World Cafe, his restaurant in Gagetown, N.B. "I wake up every morni...
Apr 26, 2019
Laval star defensive lineman Mathieu Betts looking ahead to NFL draft
Mathieu Betts is about to learn where his pro football career will begin. The NFL will complete its annual draft with the final four rounds Saturday. The Laval Rouge et Or defensiv...
Apr 26, 2019
Hydro-Quebec says dam at risk of failure holding up as police evacuate homes
GRENVILLE-SUR-LA-ROUGE, Que. - Quebec provincial police say about 75 people living downstream from a hydroelectric dam at risk of failing have been taken to safety as officials expressed con...
Apr 26, 2019
Toronto, Philadelphia gear up for another big sporting battle
TORONTO - Philadelphia may be known as The City of Brotherly Love, but it also is part of many fierce sporting rivalries. Philly fans are widely regarded as some of the most passionate in sports, some...
Apr 26, 2019
P.E.I. Tory leader says 'resistance' politics of counterparts isn't his style
CHARLOTTETOWN - The leader of the Prince Edward Island party poised to form the Island's next government isn't sounding much like his tough-talking counterparts in Alberta and Ontario, preferring the ...
Apr 26, 2019
Man or cyborg? 'Jeopardy!' champ passes $1 million mark
NEW YORK - There's no truth to the rumour that James Holzhauer is a cyborg created to be the perfect "Jeopardy!" contestant. But given how he's made a level of excellence rarely seen on the television...
Apr 26, 2019
