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A Black high school student was suspended for his hairstyle. Now, his family is suing Texas officials
Darryl George17has been serving an in-school suspension since Aug31Officials with the Houston-area school say his dreadlocks fall below his eyebrows and ear lobes and violate the district’s dress code
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Ophelia still poses risk of coastal flooding in some parts of the U.S.
After being downgraded from a tropical stormOphelia on Sunday still threatened parts of the Northeast with coastal floodinglife-threatening waves and heavy rain from Washington to New York Citythe National Hurricane Center said.
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CommentMisc World | 6:38 AM on Monday
The Philippines says the barrier prevents fishermen from entering a shoal in the South China Sea.
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CommentMisc World | 5:52 AM on Monday
French President Emmanuel Macron said Sunday that France will end its military presence in Niger and pull its ambassador out of the country after its democratically elected president was deposed in a coup.
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CommentMilitary | 7:15 PM on Saturday
A military judge at Guantanamo Bay has ruled one of the 9/11 defendants unfit for trial after a military medical panel found that the man's sustained abuse in CIA custody years earlier has rendered him lastingly psychotic.
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CommentEnvironmental | 7:05 PM on Saturday
Parks Canada says it is investigating a suspected case of whirling disease in Emerald Lake, in B.C.'s Yoho National Park. 
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CommentEnvironmental | 4:23 PM on Saturday
Residents in parts of coastal North Carolina and Virginia experienced flooding on Saturday after tropical storm Ophelia made landfall near a North Carolina barrier island, bringing rain, damaging winds and dangerous surges.
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CommentPolitical | 5:04 PM on Friday
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy ended his historic wartime address to Canada's House of Commons with an Inuktitut message of inspiration and reliance that he learned from the Governor General.
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CommentEnvironmental | 3:05 PM on Friday
RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Indigenous people celebrated Thursday after Brazil’s Supreme Court ruled to enshrine their land rights, removing the imminent threat those protections could be rolled back. The justices had been evaluating a lawsuit brought by
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CommentMisc CDN | 6:47 AM on Friday
Officials in Jasper National Park are warning visitors to stay far away from wildlife, sharing a photo of a truck damaged by a bull elk.
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CommentLaw & Order | 6:44 AM on Friday
A Canadian-founded video platform which has found success among right-wing commentators says it will not be removing the ability for Russell Brand to monetize videos on their platform after receiving an inquiry on the subject from the U.K. government amid
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CommentLaw & Order | 6:37 AM on Friday
The North Mara gold mine in Tanzania was ‘fully infiltrated’ by at least one criminal syndicate, with the collusion of police, the report said
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CommentHealth | 6:26 AM on Friday
Backers of a London program that provides free opioids and medical support as a way to prevent fatal overdoses are pointing to survey results from participants they saw shows the approach leads to better health outcomes.
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CommentLaw & Order | 6:24 AM on Friday
Betty Ann Williams died after her neighbours' three large dogs got loose and attacked while she was gardening outside her home.
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CommentHistory | 5:55 AM on Friday
The Stó:lō Nation in B.C.'s Fraser Valley says its probe into missing children and unmarked burials has so far identified, with certainty, 158 children who died at or because of their attendance at three former residential school sites and one former ho
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CommentBusiness | 7:45 PM on Thursday
Rupert Murdoch, the powerful right-wing media mogul who built and oversaw one of the world’s most influential news empires, announced Thursday that he will step down as chairman of his companies, Fox Corporation and News Corporation.
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CommentLaw & Order | 7:37 PM on Thursday
The ‘firehose of hatred’ has led the Las Vegas Review-Journal to sift through e-mail directed at one of its reporters to protect her from the worst of it
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CommentMisc CDN | 6:31 AM on Thursday
The loan will finance completion of two Candu 6 reactors, construction of which originally began in the mid-1980s
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CommentMisc CDN | 6:19 AM on Thursday
With heat waves toppling temperature records in many parts of B.C. this summer during extended drought conditions, meteorologists say the province is in need of "sustained" rain this fall.
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CommentLaw & Order | 5:53 AM on Thursday
India's visa processing centre in Canada suspended services Thursday as a diplomatic row grew between the countries after Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said India may have been involved in the killing of a Canadian citizen.
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CommentLaw & Order | 6:17 PM on Wednesday
The federal privacy watchdog says Canada Post is breaking the law by gleaning information from the outsides of envelopes and packages to help build marketing lists that it rents to businesses.
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CommentMisc World | 6:26 AM on Wednesday
Azerbaijan launched "anti-terrorist activities" in the Nagorno-Karabakh region on Tuesday, saying it wanted to restore constitutional order and drive out what it said were Armenian troops, a move that could foreshadow a new war.
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CommentLaw & Order | 6:19 AM on Wednesday
The union representing frontline education workers in Ontario is calling on Premier Doug Ford to take action after three of its offices in London, Ont. were found vandalized with messages condemning gender ideology in schools.
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CommentMisc CDN | 5:48 AM on Wednesday
One of Quebec's natural treasures, which holds ancient evidence of the first global mass extinction of animal life on Earth, is now a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
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CommentLaw & Order | 6:37 AM on Tuesday
Like the convoy itself, there is a significant wedge between how the winter 2022 protest in Ottawa was perceived and whether the actions of Tamara Lich and Chris Barber are criminal.
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CommentMisc World | 6:36 AM on Tuesday
The four men and one woman return to the US after $6bn of frozen Iranian funds were released.
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CommentMisc World | 6:26 AM on Tuesday
The August inflation rate is well above the Bank of Canada’s 2 per cent target
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CommentMilitary | 6:16 AM on Tuesday
The USMC F-35B may have traveled in a 'zombie state' after the pilot ejected, leaving its whereabouts unknown.
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CommentPolitical | 2:23 PM on Monday
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is accusing the government of India of involvement in the fatal shooting of a Canadian Sikh leader — a claim that will have seismic effects on an already shaky bilateral relationship.
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CommentPolitical | 9:09 AM on Monday
Hunter Biden sued the Internal Revenue Service on Monday, alleging that two agents who claimed interference into the case against him wrongly shared his personal tax information amid escalating legal and political struggles as the 2024 election looms.
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CommentMisc CDN | 9:08 AM on Monday
The work to rescue a multi-million dollar boring machine trapped beneath a west Toronto street has been delayed again, with the city warning it might not be the last set-back before the complex work is wrapped.
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CommentPolitical | 7:44 AM on Monday
Residents in the Kamsack area worked together to drive out supporters of a fringe QAnon group after a convoy associated with the self proclaimed "Queen of Canada" arrived on the town's main street.