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Ohioans came out strong for Trump — now they're bracing for his tariffs
COLUMBUS - In 1837, two brothers-in-law living in Ohio - one a candle maker, the other a soap maker - merged their businesses to form what later became the multinational juggernaut Procter & Gambl...
Aug 16, 2025

Erin becomes a Category 3 hurricane in the Caribbean and is expected to strengthen further
MIAMI (AP) - Erin became a Category 3 hurricane in the Caribbean early Saturday and is expected to strengthen further during the day, the National Hurricane Center reported. The storm is currently 170...
Aug 16, 2025

Ukraine's Zelenskyy to meet Trump on Monday after US-Russia summit secured no peace agreement
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) - Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says he plans to meet U.S. President Donald Trump in Washington on Monday after Trump's summit with Russia's Vladimir Putin. Zelenskyy said...
Aug 16, 2025

Marooned by Air Canada flight attendant strike? Here are your options
You were planning to catch a flight and the dreaded text pops up on your phone: your flight has been cancelled. Now what? More than 10,000 Air Canada flight attendants are off the job after a strike d...
Aug 15, 2025

CP NewsAlert: Air Canada flight attendants on strike as no deal reached
The union representing more than 10,000 Air Canada flight attendants says its members have walked off the job after it was unable to reach an eleventh hour deal with the airline. Air Canada says all f...
Aug 15, 2025

Floods in Pakistan wash away homes and leave at least 220 dead
BUNER, Pakistan (AP) - Rescuers in northwest Pakistan pulled 63 more bodies overnight from homes flattened by landslides and flash floods, raising the death toll from rain-related incidents to at leas...
Aug 15, 2025

Judge denies Trump administration request to end a policy protecting immigrant children in custody
McALLEN, Texas (AP) - A federal judge ruled Friday to deny the Trump administration's request to end a policy in place for nearly three decades that is meant to protect immigrant children in federal c...
Aug 15, 2025

New Air Force policy denies transgender troops hearings before they're discharged
WASHINGTON (AP) - The Air Force says in a new memo that transgender airmen ousted under a recent Trump administration directive will no longer have the chance to argue before a board of their peers fo...
Aug 15, 2025

'Be Fire Smart': Local MLA gives reminder for rest of summer
Though summer will be coming to a close soon, the local MLA asks people to continue to be safe with open fires.Harwinder Sandhu, the representative for Vernon-Lumby, is encouraging the public to conti...
Aug 15, 2025

First in Canada unexplained wealth order issued in B.C. against alleged pot growers
VICTORIA - British Columbia's Public Safety Minister Nina Krieger says she's "pleased" that the B.C. Supreme Court has issued Canada's first unexplained wealth order against two accused illicit pot gr...
Aug 15, 2025

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