Author Archives: Syndicated Content
Desbiens, Poulin lead Victoire to 2-1 shootout win over Sceptres in Halifax
HALIFAX - Ann-Rene Desbiens made 35 saves and Marie-Philip Poulin scored the shootout winner to help the Montreal Victoire beat the Toronto Sceptres in the Professional Women's Hockey League's first-e...
Dec 17, 2025
US announces massive package of arms sales to Taiwan valued at more than $10 billion
WASHINGTON (AP) - The Trump administration has announced a massive package of arms sales to Taiwan valued at more than $10 billion that includes medium-range missiles, howitzers and drones, drawing an...
Dec 17, 2025
Trump gives a partisan prime-time address insisting the economy is stronger than many voters feel
WASHINGTON (AP) - President Donald Trump delivered a politically charged speech Wednesday carried live in prime time on network television, seeking to pin the blame for economic challenges on Democrat...
Dec 17, 2025
Pulitzer Prize-winning correspondent Peter Arnett, who reported from Vietnam and Gulf War, has died
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Peter Arnett, the Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter who spent decades dodging bullets and bombs to bring the world eyewitness accounts of war from the rice paddies of Vietnam to the d...
Dec 17, 2025
Reports: A Chicago-based investment group is nearing a deal to buy the Pittsburgh Penguins
A family-owned, Chicago-based investment company is closing in on a deal to purchase the Pittsburgh Penguins from Fenway Sports Group. Multiple outlets, including Victory Sports and ESPN, citing anony...
Dec 17, 2025
US government admits negligence in helicopter-plane collision that killed 67 in Washington
WASHINGTON (AP) - The U.S. government admitted Wednesday that the Federal Aviation Administration and the Army played a role in causing the collision last January between an airliner and a Black Hawk ...
Dec 17, 2025
Making lawyers swear Oath of Allegiance to monarch unconstitutional: Alberta court
EDMONTON - Alberta's top court has ruled that requiring prospective lawyers to swear the Oath of Allegiance to the reigning monarch is unconstitutional and infringes on religious freedom. The Court of...
Dec 17, 2025
FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino says he plans to resign next month as bureau's No 2 official
WASHINGTON (AP) - FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino said Wednesday that he will resign from the bureau next month, ending a brief and tumultuous tenure in which he clashed with the Justice Department ov...
Dec 17, 2025
Canada's Matt (Ginja Ninja) Campbell beaten at world darts championships in London
LONDON - American Adam Sevada, in his tournament debut, defeated Canadian Matt (Ginja Ninja) Campbell in first-round play Wednesday at the five-million-pound ($9.22-million) Paddy Power World Darts Ch...
Dec 17, 2025
Canadian snowboarder, world champion Liam Brearley out of Olympic Games with injury
TORONTO - World champion slopestyle snowboarder Liam Brearley will not compete in the Olympic Games because of a knee injury that required surgery. The 22-year-old from Gravenhurst, Ont., injured his ...
Dec 17, 2025