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Prosecutors finish their side in Gov. Whitmer kidnap trial
Prosecutors in Michigan have rested their case against four men charged with planning to kidnap Gov. Gretchen Whitmer before the 2020 national election. Key evidence came from two undercover FBI agent...
Mar 30, 2022
Quebec media pen letter denouncing criminal trial held in secret, kept off docket
MONTREAL - The heads of Quebec major newsrooms have penned an open letter denouncing a criminal trial involving a police informant held entirely in secret and kept off the official court docket. The e...
Mar 30, 2022
Ex-chief of defence staff Jonathan Vance pleads guilty to obstruction of justice
OTTAWA - Former chief of the defence staff general Jonathan Vance has pleaded guilty to one charge of obstruction of justice. Vance's lawyer Rodney Sellar confirmed the plea during a virtual court app...
Mar 30, 2022
Live updates: Zelenskyy addresses Norway's Parliament
COPENHAGEN, Denmark - Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has told the Norwegian Parliament that Russia wants "to destroy the foundation of Europe." Zelenskyy, speaking through an interpreter duri...
Mar 30, 2022
GOP Sen. Collins says she'll back Jackson for Supreme Court
WASHINGTON (AP) - Maine Sen. Susan Collins said Tuesday she will vote to confirm Ketanji Brown Jackson, giving Democrats at least one Republican vote and all but assuring that Jackson will become the ...
Mar 30, 2022
First Nation funding, Humboldt survivor gets implant update: In The News for March 30
In The News is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to kickstart your day. Here is what's on the radar of our editors for the morning of March 30 ... What we are watching in Canada .....
Mar 30, 2022
First Nations need long-term funding for residential school investigations: chief
WILLIAMS LAKE, B.C. - The chief of a First Nation that's searching for unmarked graves at a former residential school in British Columbia says they're looking for long-term funding as they prepare for...
Mar 30, 2022
First Nations need long-term funding for residential school investigations: chief
WILLIAMS LAKE, B.C. - The chief of a First Nation that's searching for unmarked graves at a former residential school in British Columbia says they're looking for long-term funding as they prepare for...
Mar 30, 2022
'It's incredible': Paralyzed Broncos hockey player getting upgrade on spinal device
CALGARY - A former junior hockey player with life-altering injuries from a bus crash four years ago is getting a boost he's been anticipating for two years. Ryan Straschnitzki, 22, is one of four indi...
Mar 30, 2022
Canadian pot producers watch closely as Democrats aim to rewrite U.S. cannabis laws
WASHINGTON - More than three years after legal cannabis arrived in North America on a national scale, Congress is taking another stab at following Canada's lead by ending long-standing federal prohibi...
Mar 30, 2022
