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Calgary coach in limbo after allegedly using racial slurs
BUFFALO, N.Y. - Bill Peters' status as the Calgary Flames coach - and whatever future he might have in the sport - have been placed into question while the NHL and the team investigate allegations he ...
Nov 27, 2019
Judiciary Committee set to take over Trump impeachment probe
WASHINGTON - The House Judiciary Committee is set to take over the impeachment probe of President Donald Trump, scheduling a hearing for next week as they push closer to a possible vote on actual char...
Nov 27, 2019
Impeachment fight leaves voters cold in contested Wisconsin
RACINE, Wis. (AP) - There's not a lot that Republicans and Democrats in this political battlefield agree on, but the impeachment probe into President Donald Trump may have surfaced one: The public hea...
Nov 27, 2019 Harry Rose talks about the impeachment hearings at dinner Friday, Nov. 22, 2019, in Sturtevant, Wis. (AP Photo/Morry Gash)
Peters still on staff as NHL, Flames investigate allegations coach used racial slurs
BUFFALO, N.Y. - Calgary Flames general manager Brad Treliving says coach Bill Peters remains on the staff, but wasn't certain whether he'd be behind the bench for the next game. The team and the NHL a...
Nov 26, 2019 Calgary Flames' Akim Aliu, from Nigeria, celebrates his first NHL goal during first period NHL hockey action against the Anaheim Ducks in Calgary, Alta., Saturday, April 7, 2012. Aliu tweeted on Monday night that he had a racial slur directed his way by a former coach in 2009-10 while a member of the American Hockey League's Rockford IceHogs. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jeff McIntosh
Rescuers comb building rubble after Albanian quake kills 18
THUMANE, Albania - Rescue crews with excavators searched for survivors trapped in toppled apartment buildings and hotels Tuesday after a powerful pre-dawn earthquake in Albania killed at least 18 peop...
Nov 26, 2019
Pentagon chief fires Navy secretary over SEAL controversy
WASHINGTON - Defence Secretary Mark Esper has fired the Navy's top official, ending a stunning clash between President Donald Trump and top military leadership over the fate of a SEAL accused of war c...
Nov 25, 2019 In this Saturday, Nov. 23, 2019 photo, U.S. Navy Secretary Richard Spencer fields questions at a media availability at the Halifax International Security Forum in Halifax, Nova Scotia. U.S. (Andrew Vaughan/The Canadian Press via AP)
Massive turnout in Hong Kong vote seen as protest referendum
HONG KONG - Voters in Hong Kong turned out in droves on Sunday in district council elections seen as a barometer of public support for pro-democracy protests that have rocked the semi-autonomous Chine...
Nov 24, 2019
Trump insists on debunked Ukraine theory, despite testimony
WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump on Friday promoted a debunked conspiracy theory that Ukraine interfered in the 2016 election, a day after a former White House adviser called it a "fictional narrat...
Nov 22, 2019
Analysis: Mountain of impeachment evidence is beyond dispute
WASHINGTON (AP) - After two weeks of riveting public hearings in the House impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump, there is a mountain of evidence that is now beyond dispute. Trump explicitly...
Nov 22, 2019 President Donald Trump holds handwritten notes as he speaks to the media about the House Intelligence Committee testimony of U.S. Ambassador to the European Union Gordon Sondland, Wednesday, Nov. 20, 2019, as Trump leaves the White House in Washington, en route to Texas. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)
Former security official undercuts Trump impeachment defence
WASHINGTON - In riveting testimony, a former national security official declared Thursday that a U.S. ambassador carried out a controversial "domestic political errand" for Donald Trump on Ukraine, an...
Nov 21, 2019
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