Sarah Mills: It's a dream come true - I get to see England in the World Cup
After months of waiting and wading through FIFA's Kafkaesque ticket-buying process, Sarah Mills finally has tickets to s...
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Trump and allies spread falsehoods to cast doubt on election
While much of America was sleeping Wednesday morning, President Donald Trump's leads in crucial battleground states began slipping - and that's when online falsehoods about the election started surgin...
Nov 04, 2020
Retail therapy, last pints: England readies for new lockdown
LONDON - Last-minute shoppers in England came out in force Wednesday and thirsty drinkers enjoyed their final freshly poured pints in a pub for the next month before Britain joins swaths of Europe in ...
Nov 04, 2020
Did social media actually counter election misinformation?
Ahead of the election, Facebook, Twitter and YouTube promised to clamp down on election misinformation, including unsubstantiated charges of fraud and premature declarations of victory by candidates. ...
Nov 04, 2020
Ivory Coast's Soro calls on military to disobey president
ABIDJAN, Cote d'Ivoire - Prominent dissident Guillaume Soro, a former prime minister who was blocked from running in Ivory Coast's presidential election, called Wednesday on the country's military to ...
Nov 04, 2020
EXPLAINER: Why AP called Wisconsin for Biden
WHY AP CALLED WISCONSIN FOR BIDEN: Democrat Joe Biden has flipped the state of Wisconsin, a crucial presidential battleground that President Donald Trump carried by less than a percentage point in 201...
Nov 04, 2020
Claim that Sharpie pens ruin Arizona ballots misses the mark
As states across the U.S. release vote totals for the presidential election, some social media users are falsely claiming that ballots are being invalidated in Arizona. The supposed culprit: Sharpie m...
Nov 04, 2020
Trump's Election Day surge powered by small-town America
President Donald Trump's reelection campaign long maintained there were thousands of new supporters tucked into rural, red pockets of the country who would come out and vote for the president when ask...
Nov 04, 2020
Election officials scramble to count ballots in key states
ATLANTA - Election officials in several key states furiously counted ballots Wednesday as the nation awaited the outcome of the race between President Donald Trump and Democrat Joe Biden and braced fo...
Nov 04, 2020
Post-election vote tallying raises fresh security concerns
WASHINGTON - Election Day came and went without any overt signs of foreign interference affecting the vote, but that doesn't mean the risk has faded. A prolonged vote-tallying period in swing states r...
Nov 04, 2020
Oregon leads the way in decriminalizing hard drugs
SALEM, Ore. - In a first in the nation, Oregon has rejected charging drug users with criminal offences, with voters passing a ballot measure that decriminalizes possession of heroin, methamphetamine, ...
Nov 04, 2020
OPINION
Murray Wood: A star-crossed leader is beset by floor-crossing MPs
Murray Wood says Pierre Poilievre has suffered some bad timing in his career as Conservative leader, but the question is...
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