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Barrett to join Supreme Court arguments for the first time
WASHINGTON - Justice Amy Coney Barrett is expected to join her Supreme Court colleagues on Monday to hear arguments for the first time. Because of the coronavirus pandemic, the high court began hearin...
Nov 02, 2020
Turkey pulls 2 girls out of rubble three days after quake
IZMIR, Turkey - In what one rescue worker called "a miracle," extraction teams brought two girls out alive Monday from the wreckage of their collapsed apartment buildings in the Turkish city of Izmir,...
Nov 02, 2020
French schools reopen in mourning after beheading of teacher
PARIS - French schools held a nationwide minute of silence Monday in tribute to a teacher who was beheaded for opening a class debate on free speech by showing students caricatures of the prophet of I...
Nov 02, 2020
2020 Watch: Will loser of the election accept the result?
WASHINGTON - Presidential politics move fast. What we're watching heading into the final week of the 2020 campaign: Days to general election: 1 ___ THE NARRATIVE It's almost over. By this time next we...
Nov 02, 2020
Indonesian Muslims protest France's defence of cartoon
JAKARTA, Indonesia - Indonesian Muslims marched to the heavily guarded French Embassy in Indonesia's capital on Monday to protest France's president and his staunch support of secular laws that deem c...
Nov 02, 2020
Germany launches 4-week partial shutdown to curb virus
BERLIN - A four-week partial shutdown has started in Germany, with restaurants, bars, theatres, cinemas and other leisure facilities closing down until the end of the month in a drive to flatten a rap...
Nov 02, 2020
Midwestern states with few virus rules have low unemployment
OMAHA, Neb. - Five of the six states with the nation's lowest unemployment rates are in the Midwest, have Republican governors and have almost no restrictions intended to slow the spread of the corona...
Nov 02, 2020
UK court rules against Johnny Depp in libel action
LONDON - Britain's High Court has ruled against Johnny Depp in his libel action against the owner of the Sun tabloid over allegations that he was a "wife beater." In a ruling Monday, Justice Andrew Ni...
Nov 02, 2020
Mental health awareness, suicide prevention program now available across CJHL
Bill Chow remembers what conversations surrounding mental health entailed during his youth. For the most part, there weren't any. "You didn't talk about mental health when I was in school," said the 6...
Nov 02, 2020
Extra mental health supports in place in grief-stricken Quebec after sword attack
QUEBEC - Extra mental health supports have been made available for those in Quebec's capital after the city was shaken by a deadly sword attack on Halloween night. The province's public securit...
Nov 02, 2020