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Police: Woman poured urine on bus driver in Washington
Trump pushes tax overhaul to 'bring back Main Street'
President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump arrive on Air Force One at Austin-Bergstrom International Airport in Austin, Texas, Tuesday, Aug. 29, 2017, wldfor briefings on Harvey relief efforts. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
Hong Kong businessman and socialite David Tang dies at 63
In this Saturday, March 14, 2015, photo, Hong Kong businessman and socialite David Tang, left, poses with his wife Lucy on the red carpet for the fundraising gala organized by amfAR (The Foundation for AIDS Research) in Hong Kong. Tang, a flamboyant and outspoken socialite and entrepreneur who founded the Shanghai Tang fashion brand, has died. He was 63. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung)
Police: 2 workers killed by toxic fumes at power plant
Spoke fills the sky at the First Energy Bruce Mansfield Plant early Wednesday, Aug. 30, 2017 in Shippingport, Pa. State police say two contractors working on a pipe in an underground pit at the western Pennsylvania power plant were killed when the pipe ruptured, filling the pit with sludge, late Tuesday. Police say four other workers above the pit were overcome by some kind of fumes released by the leak and taken to hospitals. (Darrell Sapp/Pittsburgh Post-Gazette via AP)
Israel will allow Al-Jazeera reporter to keep working
S. Korean court says worker's rare disease linked to Samsung
FILE - In this May 1, 2016 file photo, members of Banolim, an advocacy group for workers in the electronic industry, perform during a rally against Samsung's response to the former company employees' health problems on the street in Seoul, South Korea. South Korea's Supreme Court said a former worker in a Samsung LCD factory who was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis should be recognized as having an occupationally caused disease, overturning lower court verdicts that held a lack of evidence against the worker. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon, File)
US airstrikes block evacuation of Islamic State militants
In this photo released by Lebanon's official government photographer Dalati Nohra, Lebanese President Michel Aoun, speaks to journalists at the Presidential Palace in Baabda, east of Beirut, Lebanon, Wednesday, Aug. 30, 2017. Aoun declared victory against the Islamic State group Wednesday in a live statement praising the Lebanese army for carrying out the operation that ended with the deal to evacuate IS fighters and their families in return for information about nine troops who were kidnapped by IS in August 2014. (Dalati Nohra via AP)
10 Things to Know for Thursday
President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump walk from Marine One across the South Lawn to the White House in Washington, Tuesday, Aug. 29, 2017, as they return from Austin, Texas. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)
Will North Korea make missiles over Japan the new normal?
People fill the square of the main railway station to watch a televised news broadcast of the test-fire of an inter-continental ballistic rocket Hwasong-12, Wednesday, August 30, 2017, in Pyongyang, North Korea. By firing a missile over Japan and putting the Asia-Pacific, including U.S. territory Guam, on notice for more and more ambitious tests, the North has won itself greater space for more weapons tests Washington and Seoul see as provocative. (AP Photo/Kim Kwang Hyon)
Poland calls for reparations amid strains with Germany, EU
In this Aug. 24, 2017 photo a workers puts up a poster in Warsaw, Poland, calling on Germany to pay reparations for World War II to Poland. Poland's government is calling on Germany to pay it reparations for World War II, when more than five years of brutal Nazi occupation killed nearly a fifth of the population and wiped out industry and cultural wealth. But Germany says the matter was settled long ago and experts say there is no legal basis for Poland to demand reparations. That leaves government critics saying the real aim must be to create an external enemy as Poland's ties with Western Europe sour.(AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)
Edmunds: Some guidance on finding the best 'American' cars
This photo provided by General Motors Co. shows the 2017 Chevrolet Corvette, which in its automatic transmission version, ranks No. 3 in the Made in America Auto Index and is an Edmunds pick for a performance car and a convertible. The Corvette has 82 percent domestic content and is built in Bowling Green, Ky. (Courtesy of General Motors Co. via AP)
Federer overcomes slow start, late lapse to beat Tiafoe at U.S. Open
Roger Federer returns the ball to Frances Tiafoe during their 2017 US Open Men's Singles match at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center in New York on August 29, 2017.
Houston Texans ready to head home after last preseason game cancelled
Houston Texans defensive end J.J. Watt stretches at the start of a morning practice at the Dallas Cowboys training facility, Monday, Aug. 28, 2017, in Frisco, Texas.
What every Canadian investor needs to know today
Wednesday's small-cap stocks to watch
National Bank says it won't follow rivals in eliminating services
Japan’s deputy PM retracts remark suggesting Hitler had good intentions
Japan's gaffe-prone deputy prime minister Taro Aso was in hot water on August 30 as he retracted comments about Adolf Hitler having the ‘right motives.’
National Bank profit buoyed by strong Quebec economy
File photo of the lobby of of National Bank on King St., in Toronto.
Morning Update: Bombardier’s culture in spotlight at bribery trial; latest on Harvey and Houston; Ticats owner apologizes
Evgeny Pavlov enters court in Stockholm, Sweden.
Shivering toddler found alive, clinging to mother drowned by Harvey
Residents wait to be rescued from the flood waters of Tropical Storm Harvey in Beaumont Place, Houston, Texas, U.S., on August 28, 2017.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to visit two New Brunswick cities Wednesday
A behind-the-scenes look at how programmers select the films for TIFF
Cameron Bailey, left, artistic director of TIFF and Piers Handling, director and CEO of TIFF, pose for a photograph in Toronto on Tuesday, August 22, 2017. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Nathan Denette
How you can protect your company from a data breach
Kevin Pollock is the senior vice-president of Shred-it.
Car stuck in the mud? Call in the Ford F-150
The 2017 Ford F-150 Lariat came to the rescue when the writer’s son found himself stuck in the mud after going on an adventure with friends in a Mazda3.
Leadership lessons from the sport’s ‘captain class’
Maurice ‘The Rocket’ Richard (left) and Jean ‘Le Gros Bill’ Beliveau pose with the Stanley Cup after beating the Bruins to win NHL championship in Boston, Apr.20, 1958.
Aug. 30: The horror that is Harvey. Plus other letters to the editor
A Texas Army National Guard goes house to house on Aug. 29, checking for anyone who may need rescue after flooding caused by heavy rain during Hurricane Harvey in west Houston, Texas. The neighbourhood flooded after water was released from a nearby reservoir.
Small business owner? How you could be impacted by new tax laws
Diana's tragic death spawned web of conspiracy theories
Chapecoense crash survivors received by Pope Francis
Jordan, Iraq reopen border crossing, vital to trade
An Iraqi flag waves in the wind above the Iraqi Trebil border crossing on the Iraq-Jordan border on August 30, 2017. Iraq closed the crossing in 2015 after large areas, including the Anbar border province, fell to the Islamic State extremist group. The militants have since been pushed back in U.S.-backed offensives. (AP Photo/Sam McNeil)
Iran releases report on January building fire and collapse
Pope asks world leaders to listen to 'cry of the Earth'
Pope Francis waves to the crowd as he arrives for his weekly general audience, in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican, Wednesday, Aug. 30, 2017. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)
Clinton should do her party a favour – and vanish
Lawrence Martin
Magnitude 5.2 earthquake hits southeast coast of Guam
2M Muslims gather near Mecca for peak of hajj pilgrimage
Muslim pilgrims pray at the Grand Mosque, ahead of the annual Hajj pilgrimage in the Muslim holy city of Mecca, Saudi Arabia, Tuesday, Aug. 29, 2017. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra)
Play the Canadian dollar against the peso in NAFTA 2.0, CIBC suggests
New Brunswick follows P.E.I. and signs child-care funding deal with Ottawa
Bryson Boyce-Pettes, 5, right, and Eleonore Alamillo-Laberge, 6, take part in a press conference as Social Development Minister Jean-Yves Duclos and P.E.I. Minister of Education, Doug Currie, speak as federal-provincial and territorial ministers responsible for "Early Learning and Child Care" meet in Ottawa on Monday, June 12, 2017. Canada's four Atlantic provinces appear poised to sign federal child care funding agreements one year after demanding the Liberal government provide extra cash to cover what they said were their unique regional needs.THE CANADIAN PRESS/Sean Kilpatrick
Princes William, Harry honour Diana's charity work
Britain's Prince William, left, and Prince Harry arrive for an event at the memorial garden in Kensington Palace, London, Wednesday, Aug. 30, 2017. Princes William and Harry are paying tribute to their mother, Princess Diana, on the eve of the 20th anniversary of her death by visiting the Sunken Garden to honor Diana's work with charities. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth)
Seven stories in the news for today, Aug. 30
UK's May reassures on Brexit, backs Japan on North Korea
British Prime Minister Theresa May is greeted on her arrival at Itami airport, Osaka, Wednesday, Aug. 30, 2017. May has arrived in Japan for a three-day visit that is expected to focus on Brexit, trade and security. (Kyodo News via AP)
Official: Roadside mine kills 3 police in Afghanistan
The Latest: Fields, roads flooding in southwest Louisiana
Marijuana store creates chasm in Alaska tourist town
In this July 12, 2017, photo, owner Mike Stoltz poses for a photo in front of a cabin at his Meandering Moose Lodging in Talkeetna, Alaska. He opposes The High Expedition Co., the first marijuana shop in the quirky Alaska tourist town, which has caused a divide among town residents. (AP Photo/Mark Thiessen)
Montreal's Neuro and AI community at heart of world 'open science' movement
Guy Rouleau, director of McGill's Neurological Institute, is seen in a laboratory, Tuesday, August 22, 2017 in Montreal. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Paul Chiasson
Man convicted of killing woman in fatal Calgary gas and dash gets 11 years
A crime scene is shown following a fatal hit-and-run in Calgary in this June 2015 handout photo. A judge is to hear sentencing arguments today for a driver who ran down and killed a gas-station attendant who had been on the job for only two weeks.Cody Mitchell was originally charged with second-degree murder in the death of Maryam Rashidi. He was found guilty of manslaughter by a jury in May. THE CANADIAN PRESS/HO - Calgary Police Service
Spanish PM appears in parliament over corruption scandals
Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy, left, and Italian Prime Minister Paolo Gentiloni attend a joint press conference at the Elysee Palace in Paris, Monday, Aug.28, 2017. The leaders of France, Germany, Italy and Spain are meeting Monday with counterparts from Libya, Niger and Chad to discuss ways to curb illegal migration across the Mediterranean Sea to European shores. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus)
French police hunt for girl, 9, who vanished at a wedding
This notice released on Monday, Aug. 28, 2017, by Gendarmerie Nationale shows a call for witnesses and an undated portrait of a missing girl, Maelys, The notice, released on the Gendarmerie Nationale Twitter account, reads in French: "Call for witnesses" - "Worrying disappearance of a minor". French police are widening their search for a 9-year-old girl who disappeared during a wedding in the Alps, combing woods and streams and questioning more potential witnesses.(Gendarmerie Nationale via AP)
UN chief decries 'dramatic' humanitarian crisis in Gaza
U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres attends a joint press conference with Palestinian Prime Minister Rami Hamdallah, following their meeting at the Prime Minister's Office, in the West Bank city of Ramallah, Tuesday, Aug. 29, 2017. (AP Photo/Nasser Nasser)
Japanese official retracts remark about Hitler's intentions
In this Aug. 3, 2017 photo, Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, left, and Deputy Prime Minister Taro Aso leave after an official photo session with Abe's new Cabinet at the prime minister's official residence in Tokyo. Japan's deputy prime minister has retracted his comment that seemed to praise the motives of Nazi leader Adolf Hitler. Aso was speaking at a political seminar Tuesday, Aug. 29, 2017, when he said: "I don't question a politician's motives; it is delivering results that matter. Hitler, who killed millions of people, was no good, even if his intentions had been good."(AP Photo/Shizuo Kambayashi)
Officials grappling with Confederate names on public schools
FILE - In this July 20, 2017 file photo, the sign for J.E.B. Stuart High School in Falls Church, Va., named after the slaveholding Confederate general who was mortally wounded in an 1864 battle. With a new school year dawning, education officials around the nation are grappling with whether to remove the names, images and statues of Confederate figures from public schools, some of whom are now filled with students of color who could be descendants of those whom the South fought to keep in slavery. (AP Photo/Matt Barakat)
Global stocks higher as investors shrug off Korea tensions
A currency trader walks by the screen showing the Korea Composite Stock Price Index (KOSPI) at the foreign exchange dealing room in Seoul, South Korea, Wednesday, Aug. 30, 2017. Asian stocks were higher on Wednesday as investors hunted for bargains and shrugged off geopolitical tensions a day after North Korea fired a missile that flew over northern Japan. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)
Harvey keeping Rice and Houston football teams off campus
Man shot and killed in Surrey, B.C.; body found in vehicle in his driveway
Sect leader in abuse case refusing to eat, officials say
In this Aug. 20, 2017 photo provided by the Cibola County Sheriff's Office, Deborah Green, leader of the paramilitary Christian sect Aggressive Christianity Missions Training Corps, is arrested outside of the group's secluded Fence Lake, N.M., compound after Cibola County deputies raided the grounds. Green and seven members of the group are facing charges in connection with a child abuse and child sexual abuse investigation in New Mexico. (Cibola County Sheriff's Office via AP)
Southern Arizona forest plans to ward off tree-killing pests
Survivor of Nagasaki bomb who campaigned to ban nukes dies
Embassy says Duterte wrong to say French law presumes guilt
Harvey horror: Shivering girl, 3, clinging to drowned mom
Coastal residents try to recover from Harvey's devastation
Louis Sirianni uses a flashlight to check damages cased to his home by the effects of Harvey, Tuesday, Aug. 29, 2017, in Rockport, Texas. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)
Texas schools shuttered by Harvey could stay that way awhile
FILE - In this Saturday, Aug. 26, 2017, file photo, the Rockport-Fulton high school gymnasium walls expose the interior after Tropical Storm Harvey ripped through Rockport, Texas. Schools across Houston and parts of Texas' Gulf Coast will remain shuttered through Labor Day - and possibly much longer - because many buildings and roadways may need repairs even after Harvey's unprecedented floodwaters subside. (Wagner Austin/American-Statesman via AP, File)
Raccoon stuck in sewer grate freed by animal clinic
Police: Gunmen kill transgender person in Pakistan
Book world hopes for literary breakthrough in fall
Qatar crisis shakes East Africa, a home to Gulf militaries
FILE - In this May, 28, 2000 file photo, Ethiopians sit under an Ethiopian flag as they watch a parade in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, marking the Ethiopian army's latest victories in the Ethiopia-Eritrea war. Qatar and the Arab nations now allied against it have made inroads in the Horn of Africa in recent years by establishing military bases now being used in the Yemen war, as well as managing ports and showering friendly nations with foreign aid. The Qatar diplomatic crisis now is shaking those East African nations amid an increasingly fierce competition for influence. (AP Photo/Pier Paolo Cito, File)
Police seek getaway vehicle in slaying of man in Montreal
Houston sees glimmer of hope after Harvey but threats loom
Addicks and Barker reservoirs
Man convicted in deadly carjackings to appeal death sentence
Grand Teton National Park tries to understand crafty foxes
A red fox pauses in the snow in Grand Teton National Park on April 4, 2014. The park's fox population is growing. (Bradly J. Boner/Jackson Hole News & Guide via AP)
Officials take stock of national trail uniting 3 countries
In this 2015 photo a sign at the Silver City Visitors Center declares the town a Continental Divide Trail Community in Silver City, N.M. Silver City was the first "Gateway Community" certified by the Continental Divide Trail Coalition. (Randal Seyler/The Deming Headlight via AP)
Posts, tweets spread widely as the Harvey missing are sought
Evacuee Edward Jones, 11, holds his step-brother Mickel Duane Batts at the Lakewood Church in Houston, Tuesday, Aug. 29, 2017. Joel Olsten and his congregation have set up their church as a shelter for evacuees from the flooding by Tropical Storm Harvey. (AP Photo/LM Otero)
Woman and child killed, two others injured in crash on Highway 401
Private companies drive 'new space race' at NASA centre
This July 14, 2017, photo shows Space Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Cape Canaveral, Fla. NASA says it may soon have the capability to send astronauts to the International Space Station from U.S. soil for the first time since the retirement of the space shuttle in 2011. (AP Photo/Alex Sanz)
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Evacuation order issued for three northern Manitoba First Nations over fire
Torrential rains bring India's financial hub to a halt
School children wade through a waterlogged street following heavy rains in Mumbai, India, Tuesday, Aug. 29, 2017. Heavy rains Tuesday brought Mumbai to a halt flooding vast areas of the city. (AP Photo/Rajanish Kakade)
China, India rivalry looms over BRICS summit
Wax museum revels in ridicule as critics lampoon its statues
Penn State frat death preliminary hearing set to continue
FILE – In this Jan. 2, 2016, file photo, Penn State athletic trainer Tim Bream, right, and head coach James Franklin, left, check on injured quarterback Christian Hackenberg prior to his leaving the game in the first half of the TaxSlayer Bowl NCAA college football game against Georgia in Jacksonville, Fla. Bream could testify as a preliminary hearing resumes for members of a fraternity facing criminal charges over the death of a pledge. A district judge in Pennsylvania plans Wednesday, Aug. 30, 2017, to take up a defense request to hold Bream in contempt. (AP Photo/Mark Wallheiser, File)
Nenshi says money owed to city over defamation lawsuit has been paid back
Contestant, a pilot, flies herself to Miss America contest
This Aug. 30, 2016 photo shows Miss Connecticut 2016 Alyssa Rae Taglia at a welcoming ceremony for Miss America contestants in Atlantic City, N.J. The welcoming ceremony for this year's field of contestants will be held in Atlantic City on Wednesday, Aug. 30, 2017, and the next Miss America will be crowned on Sept. 10, 2017. (AP Photo/Wayne Parry)
Judge to hear Ohio killer's request to delay execution
A Nazi eagle inflames a heated debate in Uruguay
FILE- In this Feb. 10, 2006 file photo, workers salvage the eagle from the World War II German pocket battleship Admiral Graf Spee, in Montevideo, Uruguay. Controversy has swirled around the eagle ever since it was recovered and now a battle has broken out over its fate. Suggestions have ranged from exhibiting or auctioning the Third Reich symbol, to keeping it hidden or even destroying it. (AP Photo/Marcelo Hernandez, File)
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Canadian women beat U.S. for gold at wheelchair basketball Americas Cup
Review: 2018 Jeep Grand Cherokee Trackhawk is a genuine track-ready SUV
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