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'Robot umpires' debut in independent Atlantic League
YORK, Pa. - "Robot umpires" have arrived. The independent Atlantic League became the first American professional baseball league to let a computer call balls and strikes Wednesday night at its All-Sta...
Jul 13, 2019
Twitter taps Canada as test market for new 'hide' tweet feature
OTTAWA - Twitter launched an experiment in Canada Thursday to give users in this country the ability to hide replies to tweets on its social-media platform, in a bid, the company says, to give us...
Jul 13, 2019
Taylor Swift shakes off drama with fun concert performance
NEW YORK - In her first public appearance since discovering her masters were in the hands of someone she's not a fan of, Taylor Swift didn't directly address the issue, but she did play music from tha...
Jul 13, 2019
Canada to compensate 718 gay-purge victims in class-action settlement
OTTAWA - A lawyer says some victims of the federal government's gay purge were so devastated by the experience that even decades later they needed the help of a therapist to fill out forms to receive ...
Jul 13, 2019
ROTHENBURGER: Plastic-bag fiasco proves need for recall law for city councils
DO YOU EVER WISH there was a way to throw the rascals out without waiting for the next election?There is at the provincial level, but not municipal. Maybe it's time for an overhaul of the municipal el...
Jul 13, 2019 Image Credit: CFJC Today
Judge approves new Weinstein legal team led by #MeToo critic
NEW YORK - A judge gave Harvey Weinstein the green light Thursday to shake up his defence team yet again - this time a mere two months before the disgraced movie mogul whose case inspired the #MeToo m...
Jul 13, 2019
UK Labour Party in turmoil over new anti-Semitism claims
LONDON - Britain's main opposition Labour Party was in turmoil Thursday after a television documentary renewed allegations that anti-Semitism is rife within its ranks. In the BBC program, former staff...
Jul 13, 2019
Trump abandons bid to include citizenship question on census
WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump abandoned his controversial bid to inject a citizenship question into next year's census Thursday, instead directing federal agencies to try to compile the informat...
Jul 13, 2019
Millions in line of punishing rain from Tropical Storm Barry
NEW ORLEANS - People boarded up buildings, stocked up on water and braced for torrents of rain and punishing wind from a strengthening Tropical Storm Barry that threatened millions as it churned a pat...
Jul 13, 2019
Toxic lake in Russia's Siberia becomes selfie sensation
MOSCOW - Residents of a city in Siberia don't need to fly off to tropical locales for picturesque selfies taken by pristine turquoise waters. Thousands of Novosibirsk residents - ranging from scantily...
Jul 13, 2019
