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Kansas' new Democratic governor vetoes GOP tax relief bill
TOPEKA, Kan. - Kansas' new Democratic governor on Monday vetoed a tax relief bill approved by the Republican-controlled Legislature, arguing it would repeat an infamous fiscal experiment that failed u...
Mar 25, 2019
Family members celebrate birthday of late 'Queen of Soul'
DETROIT - Family members are celebrating Aretha Franklin on what would have been the Queen of Soul's 77th birthday with a memorial service and a screening of a documentary film. The service was held M...
Mar 25, 2019
Brazilian judge orders release of former president Temer
RIO DE JANEIRO - A Rio de Janeiro federal judge has ordered the release of former President Michel Temer from jail. Judge Antonio Ivan Athie says in Monday's ruling that there's no need to jail Temer ...
Mar 25, 2019
Helicopters rescue Norway cruise ship passengers amid storm
HELSINKI - Rescue workers off Norway's western coast rushed to evacuate 1,300 passengers and crew from a disabled cruise ship by helicopter on Saturday, winching them one-by-one to safety as heaving w...
Mar 25, 2019
Sources say Trudeau rejected Wilson-Raybould's conservative pick for high court
OTTAWA - Jody Wilson-Raybould recommended in 2017 that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau nominate a conservative Manitoba judge to be chief justice of the Supreme Court, even though he wasn't a sitti...
Mar 25, 2019
Trudeau sells housing plan in visit to hot real estate market in B.C.
MAPLE RIDGE, B.C. - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau touted efforts by the Liberal government to help first-time homebuyers put more down on their mortgages during a visit to a region of the co...
Mar 25, 2019
Crash threatens Vancouver shipyard's schedule for new coast guard ships
OTTAWA - A Vancouver shipyard is searching for answers after the fisheries science vessel it built for the Canadian Coast Guard - and whose delivery is already years overdue - ran into ...
Mar 25, 2019
Tom Clancy's widow expands challenge of rights ownership
BALTIMORE - Tom Clancy's widow says in a lawsuit that his estate is the exclusive owner not just of the novelist's famous character Jack Ryan, but the rights to the character John Clark and several bo...
Mar 25, 2019
Michael Avenatti charged with extortion and wire, bank fraud
LOS ANGELES - U.S. prosecutors on two coasts have charged President Donald Trump critic and attorney Michael Avenatti with extortion and bank and wire fraud. A spokesman for the U.S. attorney in Los A...
Mar 25, 2019
Michael Avenatti charged with extortion and wire, bank fraud
LOS ANGELES - U.S. prosecutors on two coasts have charged President Donald Trump critic and attorney Michael Avenatti with extortion and bank and wire fraud. A spokesman for the U.S. attorney in Los A...
Mar 25, 2019