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Stocks surge on Wall Street; Dow jumps 800 points, or 4%
NEW YORK - Stocks are opening sharply higher on Wall Street a day after the worst drop since 1987. The Dow Jones Industrial Average jumped 800 points, or 4% early Friday. That's far less than half of ...
Mar 13, 2020
Philadelphia officer shot and killed while serving warrant
PHILADELPHIA - A Philadelphia police officer was shot and killed early Friday as he served a homicide warrant at a home. Cpl. James O'Connor, 46, was shot around 5:45 a.m. in the city's Frankford sect...
Mar 13, 2020
Weinstein gets 23 years in sentence hailed by accusers
NEW YORK - Harvey Weinstein was sentenced Wednesday to 23 years in prison after breaking his courtroom silence with a rambling plea for mercy in which he professed to be "totally confused" by the #MeT...
Mar 13, 2020
CP NewsAlert: Chinese allow Michael Kovrig telephone call to sick father
OTTAWA - The Chinese embassy in Canada says Michael Kovrig has been allowed to have a telephone conversation with his father who is very ill. The embassy says in a statement that they allowed this for...
Mar 13, 2020
World Cup cross country ski event cancelled in Quebec City due to COVID-19
QUEBEC - The World Cup cross-country ski event this weekend in Quebec City has been cancelled because of the COVID-19 outbreak. The move ends the cross-country season. Races for next week in Minneapol...
Mar 13, 2020
Cancellations, suspensions rule the day in Canadian sports
The Canadian sports landscape changed dramatically on Thursday because of the COVID-19 outbreak, with the country's top teams and athletes nearly all affected by the worldwide pandemic. One by one, ev...
Mar 13, 2020
Researchers, health workers further vaccine development, drive-thru testing
Canadian researchers are making multiple breakthroughs in the fight against COVID-19, as a biotech firm take the firsts steps towards a vaccine and a hospital in Ottawa opened a drive-t...
Mar 13, 2020
News agency: Iran VP, 2 Cabinet members have new virus
TEHRAN, Iran - Iran's senior vice-president and two other Cabinet members have contracted the new coronavirus, a semiofficial news agency reported Wednesday as the death toll in the Islamic Republic f...
Mar 13, 2020
St. Paul teachers, school district reach deal ending strike
ST. PAUL, Minn. - The St. Paul teachers union and Minnesota's second-largest school district reached a tentative contract agreement early Friday, ending a strike that began Tuesday and cancelled class...
Mar 13, 2020
Gregoire Trudeau latest Canadian identified for contracting COVID-19
OTTAWA - The prime minister's wife is the latest Canadian identified for contracting the respiratory illness caused by the coronavirus spreading rapidly around the world. The Prime Minister's Office a...
Mar 13, 2020