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Manitoba government promising up to $1M to support bid for basketball championship

Manitoba government promising up to $1M to support bid for basketball championship

WINNIPEG — The Manitoba government is promising up to $1 million to support a bid by the Winnipeg Sea Bears to host the Canadian Elite Basketball League championship in 2025.
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Saskatchewan government-owned liquor stores post financial loss after closures

Saskatchewan government-owned liquor stores post financial loss after closures

REGINA — The Saskatchewan government has spent millions of dollars to shutter its remaining liquor stores, resulting in the retailers posting a financial loss this year.
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Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton's securities fraud trial to wait until end of impeachment trial

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton's securities fraud trial to wait until end of impeachment trial

HOUSTON (AP) — Embattled Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton's years-delayed trial on securities fraud charges will have to wait until his separate impeachment trial is concluded, lawyers and the judge in the case said Thursday.
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As climate disasters increase, N.S. volunteer firefighters need more financial help

As climate disasters increase, N.S. volunteer firefighters need more financial help

WINDSOR, N.S. — On July 22, volunteer firefighter Logan Hope made a heroic rescue as historic flooding hit Nova Scotia, but eight days later — injured and off work — he was struggling to make ends meet. “I’m trying to survive.
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The 3 Baltic nations plan to accelerate their exit from Russia's power grid by almost a year

TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — The prime ministers of the three Baltic countries agreed Thursday to speed up their nations’ disconnection from Russia's power grid by nearly one year and connect with the continental European energy network by February 2025.
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Palestinian foreign minister says Biden's inaction as Middle East violence surges is 'weak'

RAMALLAH, West Bank (AP) — The Palestinian foreign minister on Thursday attacked the Biden administration as weak and passive in the Middle East, as violence between Israel and the Palestinians surges to its highest levels in nearly two decades.
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Republicans don't dare criticize Trump over Jan. 6. Their silence fuels his bid for the White House

Republicans don't dare criticize Trump over Jan. 6. Their silence fuels his bid for the White House

WASHINGTON (AP) — When Senate Leader Mitch McConnell rose to announce his vote to acquit Donald Trump of impeachment charges in the Jan.
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Trump supporters view the latest indictment as evidence of a crime - against Trump

Trump supporters view the latest indictment as evidence of a crime - against Trump

WASHINGTON (AP) — Former President Donald Trump and his supporters are reacting to a third indictment against him with a now-familiar playbook: deflecting with unrelated accusations, distracting with misleading claims about the charges, and demonizin
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Advocates accuse New York City of using migrants as 'props' in bid for federal money

Advocates accuse New York City of using migrants as 'props' in bid for federal money

NEW YORK (AP) — For days now, newly arrived international immigrants have waited night and day outside New York City's Roosevelt Hotel, sleeping shoulder-to-shoulder on the sidewalk in hopes of a bed in the city's shelter system.
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Pence fought an order to testify but now is a central figure in his former boss's indictment

Pence fought an order to testify but now is a central figure in his former boss's indictment

NEW YORK (AP) — Mike Pence fought the Department of Justice in court to try to avoid testifying against his former boss.
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