Most of the people arrested in demonstrations against police brutality since the shooting of Jacob Blake in Kenosha were not city residents, according to police. Of the 175 people arrested during protests in Kenosha since Blake...
Archive - August 2020
Canada’s federal banking regulator is phasing out requirements around mortgage deferrals for homeowners hard-hit financially by the COVID-19 pandemic. The Office of the Superintendent of Financial Institutions says...
A World Cup speed skating event in Calgary and short-track competitions in Montreal and Laval, Que., have been cancelled because of COVID-19. The International Skating Union announced Monday that the first World Cup speed skating...
Wildlife rangers have trapped a 4.4-metre saltwater crocodile at a tourist destination in Australia’s Northern Territory, the biggest caught in the area in years, a wildlife ranger said Monday. The 350-kilogram male was...
Canada’s federal government has signed an agreement in principle to acquire up to 76 million doses of a potential COVID-19 vaccine being developed by an American company. Maryland-based biotechnology company...
Real Salt Lake owner Dell Loy Hansen will sell his soccer teams in the wake of reports that he made racist comments, Major League Soccer said Sunday. Hansen’s Utah Soccer Holdings includes his MLS club, the Utah Royals of...
Rwanda said on Monday it had detained Paul Rusesabagina — the man who was hailed a hero in a Hollywood movie about the country’s 1994 genocide — on terrorism charges and paraded him in front of media in handcuffs. On...
Max Pacioretty scored twice and added an assist, and the Vegas Golden Knights rallied for three goals in the third period and beat the Vancouver Canucks 5-3 on Sunday night. The Golden Knights took a 3-1 lead in the best-of-seven...
A Lebanese diplomat was appointed to form a new government on Monday after winning the backing of major political parties in the crisis-hit country, which is still reeling from a devastating explosion that killed and wounded...
The Jamal Murray-Donovan Mitchell duel will be settled in the first Game 7 in the bubble. Murray extended his torrid run with 50 more points, leading the Denver Nuggets to a 119-107 victory over the Utah Jazz on Sunday...