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Trump says record USS Lincoln deployment 'not nearly long enough'
Trump said USS Lincoln family members are not concerned about conditions.
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01 02 Former Cambridge professor found dead amid plagiarism allegations
Former Cambridge University professor Jason Arday was found dead on Friday.
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03 GeneralCanadaAlgal bloom advisory issued for Calgary’s Lake Sundance
Alberta Health Services has issued an advisory for Lake Sundance after finding evidence of blue-green algal blooms that could cause a variety of symptoms, especially in children.
Global News
04 GeneralUS & CanadaBig gap remains between Canada and U.S. in ongoing trade talks: source
The distance on a potential deal comes after a week of negotiations in Washington between Canadian and U.S. officials, labelled by multiple sources as constructive.
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05 GeneralCanadaOntario government implementing new bail requirements
The Ontario government is implementing a spate of new bail requirements, including mandated cash-for-bail, in an effort to crack down on repeat offenders.
Global News
06 GeneralUnited States‘Devastating’: bulldozers plough through Big Bend national park as Trump’s border work pushes ahead
Heavy machinery seen operating in famous Santa Elena Canyon amid outcry over new wall infrastructure in beloved Texas park Bulldozers have begun plowing up ground at the mouth of Big Bend national park’s famed Santa Elena Canyon as part of the Trump administration’s multibillion-dollar “smart wall” expansion on the US-Mexico border, according to new footage taken by activists who have been monitoring the site. Tensions have run high since the Trump administration announced plans to erect new…
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07 GeneralCanadaSaskatchewan eatery owner pleads guilty to charging employee to work for them
Guac Mexi Grill in Moose Jaw was investigated for requiring a foreign worker to pay $12,000 between August 2023 and February 2024 to keep their job.
Global News
08 Peachland residents to return home Friday, 1 week after Bald Range fire started
As of 6 p.m. on Aug. 14, evacuation orders for all properties in Peachland and Electoral Area West will be downgraded to evacuation alerts, officials say.
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09 GeneralUnited StatesWoman arrested after second world war memorial in DC vandalized
Suspect faces two felony charges after memorial filled with bubbles and spray-paint reading ‘Clean hands Dirty $’ A woman was arrested on Friday morning in connection with the vandalization of the National World War Two Memorial on the National Mall in Washington DC , the capital’s federal prosecutor announced. Jeanine Pirro, the US attorney for the District of Columbia, announced mid-morning that a suspect was in custody and had been charged with federal crimes.
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10 Army grounds all Apache helicopter flights
The announcement comes after last week's fatal helicopter crash.
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11 Roslin, Ont. farmer faces insurance dispute after life-changing accident
A Roslin, Ont., farmer is in dispute with his insurance provider over a $1 million payout to help with his recovery from a severe accident.
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12 GeneralUnited StatesFeds charge woman for allegedly vandalizing World War II Memorial in D.C.
The top federal prosecutor in Washington, D.C., said a woman has been arrested and faces two felony charges related to vandalism of the World War II Memorial.
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13 GeneralUnited StatesWhere the Texas surrogate dispute stands right now
The legal fight over who has parental rights to a baby in the middle of a surrogacy dispute is playing out in Texas. Rachel Rebouché, professor of law at the University of Texas School of Law, joins CBS News to discuss.
CBS News
14 Afghan women tell the BBC their lives are unrecognisable after five years of Taliban rule
Women across the country speak of public floggings, losing their jobs, and barriers to healthcare that endanger lives.
BBC News
15 GeneralUnited StatesThe week around the world in 20 pictures
Wildfires rage in Europe and the US, an earthquake rocks Colombia, Russian strikes in Ukraine and a solar eclipse – the past seven days as captured by the world’s leading photojournalists
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16 Trump’s spying on left-wing groups recalls J Edgar Hoover’s Cointelpro
The FBI from the 1950s to the 1970s tried to infiltrate and discredit leftist organizations. Trump seems to be repeating that sordid practice It is bad enough that the Trump administration blocked a federal criminal investigation when an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent killed Renee Good as she was turning her car away from him in Minneapolis the past January. Just before the shooting, Good and her partner had been observing and protesting against ICE officers. Instead, it turns…
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17 Struggling Venus Williams suffers 14th straight defeat in Cincinnati rout
Seven-time major champion beaten 6-2, 6-2 Williams, 46, loses 11th match of the season Tsitsipas advances as Dimitrov squanders lead Colombian Emilia Arango handed Venus Williams a 14th straight loss dating to July of last year, defeating the fading seven-time grand slam champion who is currently ranked 615th in 66 minutes by 6-2, 6-2 at the ATP-WTA Cincinnati Masters. The 46-year-old Williams was given a wild card entry at an event where she reached a semi-final a dozen years ago. She has…
The Guardian
18 UK diplomats no longer get hardship bonus for being posted to Buenos Aires
Civil servants are entitled to extra money for working in difficult or dangerous cities around the world.
BBC News
19 Saskatoon students will return to class on time despite high school blaze, board
Students of a Saskatoon high school that was damaged by a fire last week will return to class on Sept. 2, but the school board says it will be a 'unique situation.'
Global News
20 GeneralUnited StatesWatch: Trump says USS Lincoln is being replaced, doesn't think deployment has been too long
President Trump responded Friday to a question about the USS Abraham Lincoln, denying reports of bad conditions and saying the ship's deployment hasn't been "nearly long enough."
CBS News
21 Activists try to deliver aid to Palestinians in homes besieged by Israeli settlers
Two families have been trapped in their homes in the occupied West Bank for several days.
BBC News
22 How Americans deceive ourselves about slavery
Clint Smith's How the Word Is Passed explores how slavery is — and isn't — taught. And Above Ground includes poems to his children about what their ancestors endured and escaped. He spoke with Fresh Air in 2021 and 2023.
NPR
23 GeneralUnited StatesInside "the Pool": Fugitive arrested in alleged cross-border car trade scheme
Along the Texas-Mexico border, prosecutors say a group of businessmen found a way to monopolize the trade of used cars — a scheme called "the Pool." This week, authorities say they caught one alleged member.
CBS News
24 Why is Selena Gomez being sued?
BBC journalist Ana Guerra-Moore looks at why investors who backed Wondermind Global are claiming the pop star failed to fulfil promises.
BBC News
25 Donald Trump can’t beat Iran and Nigel Farage can only beat a bin. When it counts, these populists are just losers
The pattern in the US and Britain is clear. They serve up stunt after stunt to mask incompetence and the betrayal of all those who trusted them It’s a shame Nigel Farage ducked the announcement of his victory in the Clacton byelection, which confirmed his return as MP for the seat he had needlessly resigned from just a few weeks earlier. You’d have thought he would have loved it. It was the culmination of a stunt, an exercise in politics as performance. It was a display animated by – and…
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