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'Joker' laughs its way to October box office record
LOS ANGELES - The filmmakers and studio behind "Joker" have reason to put on a happy face. Despite concerns over its violent themes and ramped up theatre security, audiences flocked to the multiplex t...
Oct 7, 2019
The great debate and doctor politics; In-The-News for Oct. 7
In-The-News is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to kickstart your day. Here is what's on the radar of our editors for the morning of Aug. 30. What we are watching in Canada ... OT...
Oct 7, 2019
ROTHENBURGER: Election-sign vandals should pay a heavy penalty if they’re caught
KAMLOOPS - IT SHOULD COME AS NO SURPRISE that election signs are being vandalized. It happens pretty much every election.Usually, signs are knocked over and even stolen. Any sign that uses plywood for...
Oct 7, 2019 Image Credit: CFJC Today
State Department rattled by impeachment inquiry revelations
WASHINGTON - The State Department has been deeply shaken by the rapidly escalating impeachment inquiry, as revelations that President Donald Trump enlisted diplomats to dig up dirt on a political riva...
Oct 7, 2019
Pompeo: State Dept. will follow law in impeachment inquiry
WASHINGTON - Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said Saturday the State Department intends to follow the law in the House impeachment investigation and vigorously defended President Donald Trump, dismissi...
Oct 7, 2019
Security forces kill more than 80 in 5 days of Iraq protests
BAGHDAD - Iraqi protesters pressed on with angry anti-government rallies in the capital and across several provinces for a fifth day Saturday, setting government offices on fire and ignoring appeals f...
Oct 7, 2019
Hong Kong lawmakers challenge mask ban as protests persist
HONG KONG - A group of pro-democracy Hong Kong legislators filed a legal challenge against the government's use of a colonial-era emergency law to criminalize the wearing of masks at rallies to quell ...
Oct 7, 2019
3 get Nobel Medicine prize for learning how cells use oxygen
STOCKHOLM - The 2019 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to scientists William G. Kaelin, Jr, Peter J. Ratcliffe and Gregg L. Semenza for their discoveries of "how cells sense and ...
Oct 7, 2019
Doctors say political activism part of their jobs on issues affecting health
VANCOUVER - As a child growing up in Toronto, Dr. Melissa Lem was dubbed a tree hugger thanks to her passion for the environment. It's a label she fully embraces as a family p...
Oct 7, 2019
US troops start pullout from along Turkey's border in Syria
BEIRUT - U.S.-backed Kurdish-led forces in Syria say American troops have begun withdrawing from areas along Turkey's border. This comes hours after the White House said U.S. forces in northeastern Sy...
Oct 6, 2019
