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Judge throws out Trump rules limiting skilled-worker visas
CHICAGO - A federal judge on Tuesday struck down two Trump administration rules designed to drastically curtail the number of visas issued each year to skilled foreign workers. The changes applying to...
Dec 01, 2020
US probing potential bribery, lobbying scheme for pardon
WASHINGTON - The Justice Department is investigating whether there was a secret scheme to lobby White House officials for a pardon as well as a related plot to offer a hefty political contribution in ...
Dec 01, 2020
Elected officials dine out after urging others to stay home
San Francisco Mayor London Breed dined at a posh Napa Valley restaurant the day after California's governor was there. San Jose Mayor Sam Liccardo went to his parents' house for Thanksgiving. And a Lo...
Dec 01, 2020
Trump files lawsuit challenging Wisconsin election results
MADISON, Wis. - President Donald Trump filed a lawsuit Tuesday in Wisconsin seeking to disqualify more than 221,000 ballots in the state's two most Democratic counties, a longshot attempt to overturn ...
Dec 01, 2020
SaskPower rebate takes effect
Saskatchewan residents started getting a break on their power bills Tuesday.As promised by the Saskatchewan Party during the election campaign, all SaskPower customers will be getting a 10 per cent re...
Dec 01, 2020
Calgary facility set to become curling hub during pandemic
CALGARY - Curling Canada wants Calgary's Canada Olympic Park to be a curling hub for the season's top events. Canada's governing body of curling proposes holding the 2021 national men's, women's and m...
Dec 01, 2020
Visitor: Monolith toppled by group who said 'leave no trace'
SALT LAKE CITY - New clues have surfaced in the disappearance of a gleaming monolith in Utah that seemed to melt away as mysteriously as it appeared in the red-rock desert - though it's no longer the ...
Dec 01, 2020
Salesforce buying work-chat service Slack for $27.7 billion
SAN RAMON, Calif. - Business software pioneer Salesforce.com is buying work-chatting service Slack for $27.7 billion in a deal aimed at giving the two companies a better shot at competing against long...
Dec 01, 2020
Passenger complaints filed in pandemic won't start to be processed until 2021
OTTAWA - The head of Canada's transport regulator says the 11,000 complaints filed to the Canadian Transportation Agency since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic will not start to be processed until e...
Dec 01, 2020
Toronto FC looking for a new designated player who can generate goals
Toronto FC will be going after goals in searching for a third designated player. The slot became open this week when TFC announced that while it was open to Argentine winger Pablo Piatti returning, it...
Dec 01, 2020