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Wisconsin governor can lock in 400-year school funding increase using a veto, court says
MADISON, Wis. (AP) - The Democratic governor of Wisconsin's creative use of his uniquely powerful veto can lock in a school funding increase for 400 years, the state Supreme Court ruled Friday. The sp...
Apr 18, 2025

10,000 pages of records related to the 1968 assassination of Robert F. Kennedy are released
WASHINGTON (AP) - Approximately 10,000 pages of records related to the 1968 assassination of Sen. Robert F. Kennedy have been released. The Friday release continues the disclosure of national secrets ...
Apr 18, 2025

Women's championship returns to April in Olympic year, new wrinkles for PWHL, players
ESK BUDJOVICE - The 2026 women's world hockey championship will be held in April two months after the Olympic Games conclude in Milan-Cortina, Italy. There wasn't a women's championship in the same ca...
Apr 18, 2025

Poilievre promises to end ban on single-use plastic straws, other items
MONTREAL - Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre is promising to end the federal single-use plastic ban on items like straws and grocery bags if his party is elected. Poilievre campaigned in Montreal t...
Apr 18, 2025

Adekugbe eager for return as Vancouver Whitecaps look to continue hot start
VANCOUVER - Sam Adekugbe has spent the last six weeks rooting for the Vancouver Whitecaps as the club surges up the Major League Soccer standings. What the left back really wants, though, is to get ba...
Apr 18, 2025

A British and an Israeli woman were along 4 killed in a cable car crash south of Naples
ROME (AP) - Three tourists were among four people who died when a cable car crashed south of Naples, including a British and an Israeli woman, an Italian official said Friday. Only two of the three fo...
Apr 18, 2025

B.C. researchers confirm footprints of three-toed dinosaur with club-like tail
Armoured dinosaurs with clubbed tails once roamed in what is now northeastern British Columbia, a new study suggests, leaving three-toed footprints across the landscape when the Rocky Mountains were s...
Apr 17, 2025

B.C. researchers confirm footprints of three-toed dinosaur with club-like tail
Armoured dinosaurs with clubbed tails once roamed in what is now northeastern British Columbia, a new study suggests, leaving three-toed footprints across the landscape when the Rocky Mountains were s...
Apr 17, 2025

Crosby and Ovechkin shine in Penguins' 5-2 win over Capitals
PITTSBURGH (AP) - Sidney Crosby and Alex Ovechkin put on a show in the regular-season finale on Thursday night, showcasing their greatness in the Pittsburgh Penguins' 5-2 win over the Washington Capit...
Apr 17, 2025

Parekh, Morton score in NHL debuts, and the Flames beat the playoff-bound Kings 5-1
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Sam Morton and Zayne Parekh scored in their NHL debuts, Nazem Kadri had two goals and the Calgary Flames beat the playoff-bound Los Angeles Kings 5-1 on Thursday night in the regula...
Apr 17, 2025

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