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Blackhawks star Bedard back after missing almost six weeks with broken jaw
Chicago Blackhawks star rookie Connor Bedard has been cleared to return to action after missing almost six weeks with a broken jaw. The Blackhawks announced Bedard’s return to the roster before hosting the Pittsburgh Penguins on Thursday. The 18-year-old forward from North Vancouver, B.C., sustained the broken jaw in a 4-2 loss at New Jersey ... Read More »
Fani Willis takes the witness stand to fight an effort to disqualify her from Trump’s election case
ATLANTA (AP) – Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis took the witness stand Thursday to defend herself from efforts to remove her from Donald Trump’s 2020 election interference case, angrily pushing back against what she described as “lies” about her romantic relationship with a special prosecutor. In an extraordinary moment in a hearing that could ... Read More »
Senegal’s top election authority voids president’s decree to postpone Feb. 25 presidential vote
DAKAR, Senegal (AP) – Senegal’s top election authority on Thursday voided the president’s postponement of a presidential election scheduled for Feb. 25 and its rescheduling for December, ruling that moves were unconstitutional. Senegal’s Constitutional Council cancelled the decree signed by President Macky Sall that postponed the election, according to a judgement approved by seven members ... Read More »
Stock market today: Wall Street returns to record heights as Treasury yields ease
NEW YORK (AP) – Stocks returned to record heights following some mixed reports on the economy. The S&P 500 rose 0.6% Thursday, surpassing the all-time high it set last week. The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 0.9%, and the Nasdaq composite added 0.3%. Treasury yields eased in the bond market after a report showed sales ... Read More »
CP NewsAlert: Two women killed, one seriously injured in attack west of Montreal
VAUDREUIL-DORION, Que. – Quebec provincial police say two women were killed and another was seriously injured in a stabbing attack in a residential building west of Montreal. Sgt. Catherine Bernard says a 44-year-old man was arrested at the scene today in Vaudreuil-Dorion, Que., and is in hospital with non-life-threatening injuries. More coming... Read More »
Venezuela orders UN human rights office to close, accusing it of anti-government activity
CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) – Venezuela’s government on Thursday ordered the local United Nations office on human rights to suspend operations and gave its staff 72 hours to leave, accusing it of assisting coup plotters and terrorist groups. Foreign Affairs Minister Yván Gil announced the decision at a news conference in Caracas, which came amid heightened ... Read More »
Senegal’s top election authority voids president’s decree postpone Feb. 25 presidential vote
DAKAR, Senegal (AP) – Senegal’s top election authority on Thursday voided the president’s postponement of a presidential election scheduled for Feb. 25 and its rescheduling for December, ruling that moves were unconstitutional. Senegal’s Constitutional Council cancelled the decree signed by President Macky Sall that postponed the election, according to a judgement approved by seven members ... Read More »
RCMP form national co-ordination team in response to extortion schemes
SURREY, B.C. – The RCMP says it has established a national team to help co-ordinate investigations and information sharing about extortion schemes targeting South Asian businesses in B.C., Alberta and Ontario. Mounties say the team is a “nationwide alliance” of police agencies that are all investigating extortion and violent threats, which have been tied to ... Read More »
Schouten wins world speedskating title in women’s 3k, Canada’s Weidemann second
CALGARY – Irene Schouten of the Netherlands has won the women’s 3,000 metres and Canada’s Isabelle Weidemann earned silver at the world single distance speedskating championship. Weidemann laid down a time of three minutes 58.01 seconds in the fourth pairing for the rest of the field to chase in Calgary’s Olympic Oval. Reigning Olympic champion ... Read More »
Crown asks New Brunswick judge to stay charges against Indigenous lobster fisherman
CAMPBELLTON, N.B. – A judge in northern New Brunswick has granted a stay of proceedings in the trial of an Indigenous lobster fisherman who launched a constitutional challenge aimed at asserting Indigenous and treaty rights. Cody Caplin, a member of the Eel River Bar First Nation, was fishing for lobster in the Bay of Chaleur ... Read More »
Bradley Cooper laments lack of public awareness of Leonard Bernstein
NEW YORK (AP) – Gushing after the New York Philharmonic performed Leonard Bernstein’s music, Bradley Cooper talked about creating the film “Maestro “³ in hopes of drawing more attention to the composer and conductor. “Many people don’t know who he is,” the actor and director told the sold-out crowd of about 1,800 at Lincoln Center’s ... Read More »
