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Driver pleads not guilty in Vermont crash that killed actor Treat Williams

A Vermont driver on Monday pleaded not guilty to a charge in the June crash that killed actor Treat Williams.

Texas Walmart shooter agrees to pay more than $5M to families over 2019 racist attack

A white Texas gunman who killed 23 people in a racist attack on Hispanic shoppers at a Walmart in 2019 agreed Monday to pay more than $5 million to families of the victims.

Rare tickets to Ford's Theatre on the night Lincoln was assassinated auction for $262,500

A pair of front-row balcony tickets to Ford's Theatre on April 14, 1865 -- the night President Abraham Lincoln was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth -- sold at auction for $262,500, according to a Boston-based auction house.

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8 injured when JetBlue flight from Ecuador hits severe turbulence as it approaches Fort Lauderdale

A JetBlue flight from Ecuador to Fort Lauderdale hit extreme turbulence while approaching the Florida airport Monday, injuring seven passengers and a crew member, the airline said in a statement.
3 teenagers were fatally shot in South Carolina, and a schoolmate has been arrested

Two people showed up at an abandoned house where four teenagers were hanging out and opened fire, killing three of them and wounding the fourth in an escalation of an old quibble over a burglary, authorities said Monday in Columbia, South Carolina.
Bahrain says attack by Yemen rebels kills one Bahraini officer and one soldier on the Saudi border

Bahrain's military command says one of its officers and a soldier were killed in a drone attack by Yemeni rebels while patrolling the Yemeni-Saudi border.
EU member states weaken proposal setting new emission standards for cars and vans

European Union member countries have watered down a proposal by the bloc's executive arm aimed at lowering vehicle emissions.
At least 3 people are killed and 15 are missing in a landslide in Guatemala

Heavy rains set off a landslide in Guatemala's capital early Monday sweeping several humble homes into a river and leaving three people dead and at least 15 people missing, including 10 minors.
A former U.K. nurse will be retried on a charge that she tried to murder a baby girl at a hospital

A former neonatal nurse who was sentenced to life in prison for the murder of seven babies in her care and trying to kill six others at a U.K. hospital will face a retrial on a charge of attempting to murder a newborn baby girl, prosecutors said Monday.
U.S. senator rejects calls to resign, corruption charges, saying cash found in home was not bribe proceeds

Democratic U.S. Sen. Bob Menendez of New Jersey defiantly pushed back against federal corruption charges on Monday, saying nearly half a million dollars in cash authorities found in his home was from his personal savings, not from bribes, and was on hand for emergencies.
Libya's top prosecutor jails 8 officials for potential negligence in the deadly collapse of dams

Libya's chief prosecutor said Monday he ordered the detention of eight current and former officials pending his investigation into the collapse of two dams earlier this month, a disaster that sent a wall of water several meters high through the center of a coastal city and left thousands of people dead.
Russian strikes in Ukraine's city of Odesa damage port, grain silo and an abandoned hotel

A Russian drone and missile strike near Odesa damaged infrastructure, a grain silo and an abandoned hotel and injured one person in the Black Sea port city as attacks elsewhere in Ukraine killed five civilians and wounded 13 in the past day, Ukrainian officials said Monday.
UN rights experts decry war crimes by Russia in Ukraine and look into genocide allegations

Independent UN-backed human rights experts said Monday they have turned up continued evidence of war crimes committed by Russian forces in their war against Ukraine, including torture -- some of it with such "brutality" that it led to death -- and rape of women aged up to 83 years old.

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Canada

Poster advertising 'whites-only' children's playtime sparks outrage in B.C. community

Police have launched an investigation into a poster inviting "proud parents of European children" to participate in racially segregated playtime in B.C.'s Lower Mainland.
Charges dropped against construction company in Barrie, Ont. crash that killed 6 young adults

Charges against the company accused of criminal negligence in connection with an August 2022 collision that claimed the lives of six young adults in Barrie have been dropped.
RCMP demolish last structure at Quebec's Roxham Road migrant crossing

The last RCMP building is coming down at Roxham Road, which became an unofficial border crossing used by more than 100,000 migrants crossing into Canada from Upstate New York to apply for asylum since 2017.
Canadian air force investigating 'inappropriate and unapproved' call sign broadcast on U.K. flight

The Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF) is investigating an ‘inappropriate and unapproved’ call sign that was transmitted electronically from one of its aircraft on Monday.
Lawyer challenges federal decision to deny help to woman with six children in Syria

A lawyer is urging the Federal Court to direct the Canadian government to repatriate a Quebec woman being held in a Syrian detention camp with her six children.
Protest held outside Vancouver's Indian consulate over death of Sikh leader

Dozens of people gathered in downtown Vancouver Monday to protest the killing of a Sikh leader amid allegations that the Indian government played a role in the slaying.

World

Driver pleads not guilty in Vermont crash that killed actor Treat Williams

A Vermont driver on Monday pleaded not guilty to a charge in the June crash that killed actor Treat Williams.
Texas Walmart shooter agrees to pay more than $5M to families over 2019 racist attack

A white Texas gunman who killed 23 people in a racist attack on Hispanic shoppers at a Walmart in 2019 agreed Monday to pay more than $5 million to families of the victims.
Rare tickets to Ford's Theatre on the night Lincoln was assassinated auction for $262,500

A pair of front-row balcony tickets to Ford's Theatre on April 14, 1865 -- the night President Abraham Lincoln was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth -- sold at auction for $262,500, according to a Boston-based auction house.
8 injured when JetBlue flight from Ecuador hits severe turbulence as it approaches Fort Lauderdale

A JetBlue flight from Ecuador to Fort Lauderdale hit extreme turbulence while approaching the Florida airport Monday, injuring seven passengers and a crew member, the airline said in a statement.
3 teenagers were fatally shot in South Carolina, and a schoolmate has been arrested

Two people showed up at an abandoned house where four teenagers were hanging out and opened fire, killing three of them and wounding the fourth in an escalation of an old quibble over a burglary, authorities said Monday in Columbia, South Carolina.
Bahrain says attack by Yemen rebels kills one Bahraini officer and one soldier on the Saudi border

Bahrain's military command says one of its officers and a soldier were killed in a drone attack by Yemeni rebels while patrolling the Yemeni-Saudi border.

Entertainment

David McCallum, star of hit TV series 'The Man From U.N.C.L.E.' and 'NCIS,' dies at 90

Actor David McCallum, who became a teen heartthrob in the hit series 'The Man From U.N.C.L.E.' in the 1960s and was the eccentric medical examiner in the popular 'NCIS' 40 years later, has died. He was 90.
Longest, fastest, zaniest: Guinness World Records celebrates the 'crazy, fun, inspiring'

These and many more superlatives are in the latest edition of the Guinness World Records, which for 2024's edition has taken our watery world as its theme. That means there's extra entries for aquatic record-breakers, the largest octopuses, largest hot spring and deepest shark among the 2,638 achievements.
U.K. police open sexual offences investigation after allegations about Russell Brand

British police have opened a sex crimes investigation triggered by news reports about comedian Russell Brand.

Health

Canada approves Ebola virus vaccine for adults exposed to the deadly disease

Canada has approved a vaccine to prevent Ebola in non-pregnant and otherwise healthy adults aged 18 and older.
Four in 10 child patients face unsafe spinal surgery wait times in Canada: report

Four out of ten child patients in Canada are facing unsafe spinal surgery wait times, which could cost the health-care system $44.6 million, according to a new report that was published Monday.
What doctors say needs to change about health care in Canada

A group of Canadian doctors, nurses and other health-care providers has issued recommendations on how to make health care more equitable for disadvantaged people.

Politics

Speaker's Nazi veteran invite 'profoundly embarrassing' Trudeau says, as Rota faces calls to resign

Tensions flared in the Commons on Monday over opposition calls for House Speaker Anthony Rota to resign after apologizing to Parliament for inviting, recognizing and leading the chamber in a standing ovation for a man who fought for a Nazi unit during the Second World War.
Kremlin says Canadian recognition of veteran from Nazi unit is 'outrageous'

The Kremlin said on Monday it was 'outrageous' that a Ukrainian man who served in one of Adolf Hitler's Waffen SS units during the Second World War had been presented to Canada's parliament last week as a hero.
Cost of living: Pepsi and Coca-Cola absent in meeting with federal industry minister

Canada's industry minister made a point of calling out Pepsi and Coca-Cola for not sending representatives to a meeting he convened on Monday with manufacturing companies to discuss stabilizing grocery prices.

Sci-Tech

We carry DNA from extinct cousins like Neanderthals. Science is now revealing their genetic legacy

Using the new and rapidly improving ability to piece together fragments of ancient DNA, scientists are finding that traits inherited from Neanderthals are still with us now, affecting our fertility, our immune systems, even how our bodies handled the COVID-19 virus.
Photo giant Getty took a leading AI image-maker to court. Now it's also embracing the technology

Seattle-based Getty Images is taking a two-pronged approach to the threat and opportunity that AI poses to its business. First, it sued a leading purveyor of AI-generated images earlier this year for what it alleged was 'brazen infringement' of Getty's image collection 'on a staggering scale.' Now, it's embracing the technology.
It's here! Rare asteroid sample lands on Earth after OSIRIS-REx drops cargo

Seven years after OSIRIS-REx was sent into space to retrieve a sample of an asteroid, the NASA-led spacecraft has delivered its cargo into Earth’s orbit, and Canada is set to receive a piece.

Business

Cost of living: Pepsi and Coca-Cola absent in meeting with federal industry minister

Canada's industry minister made a point of calling out Pepsi and Coca-Cola for not sending representatives to a meeting he convened on Monday with manufacturing companies to discuss stabilizing grocery prices.
Regulator rules in favour of Trans Mountain route deviation

The Canada Energy Regulator has approved Trans Mountain Corp.'s application to modify the pipeline's route.
Thailand receives the first Chinese visitors under a new visa-free policy to boost tourism

Top Thai officials welcomed hundreds of Chinese tourists at Bangkok's international airport on Monday, the first day of a new visa-free entry program that officials say will boost the country's tourism industry that was badly damaged by the coronavirus pandemic.

Autos

Ford pausing construction of Michigan battery plant amid contract talks with auto workers union

Ford Motor Co. said Monday that it's pausing construction of a US$3.5 billion electric vehicle battery plant in Michigan until it is confident it can run the factory competitively.
Canada's largest private sector union sets sights on GM for next round of auto talks

Canada's largest private sector union says it will turn to negotiations with General Motors after members voted to accept its labour agreement with Ford Motor Co. of Canada.
Ford offers Unifor wage increases up to 25 per cent

Ford Motor has offered Canadian union Unifor wage increases of up to 25 per cent in its tentative agreement, the union said on Saturday. The agreement provides a 10 per cent wage increase for the first year followed by increases of two per cent and three per cent through the second and third year and a $10,000 productivity and quality bonus to all employees on the active roll of the company, Unifor said.

Lifestyle

Toymaker Lego to stick to its quest to find sustainable materials despite failed recycle attempt

Denmark's Lego said on Monday that it remains committed to its quest to find sustainable materials to reduce carbon emissions, even after an experiment by the world's largest toymaker to use recycled bottles did not work.
'Milestone' OLG lottery jackpot to be drawn this week

A lucky lottery player will be the winner of a record-breaking multi-million dollar prize on Wednesday.
Sask. sisters' sanctuary gives ponies and donkeys with special needs a second chance at life

A sanctuary just outside of Estevan is giving some of Saskatchewan’s smallest equines with special needs the opportunity for a forever home.

Sports

Steelers' team plane makes emergency landing in Kansas City, no injuries reported

The Pittsburgh Steelers' charter flight home following a Sunday night win in Las Vegas made an emergency landing in Kansas City early Monday.
Golf Canada names squads for World Amateur Team Championships

Lauren Kim of Surrey, B.C., headlines Golf Canada's two squads for the upcoming World Amateur Team Championships.
IndyCar's return marks major comeback for 120-year-old Milwaukee Mile

IndyCar is returning to the Milwaukee Mile next year as part of a Labor Day weekend doubleheader just before the final race of the season.