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Individual cigarettes in Canada will soon carry health warnings
Thursday, June 01, 2023
The move was first announced last year by Health Canada and is aimed at helping people quit the habit. The regulations take effect Aug. 1 and will be phased in.
Australia's most decorated soldier loses defamation case for alleged war crimes
Thursday, June 01, 2023
An Australian federal court judge ruled that newspaper articles published in 2018 were substantially true about a number of war crimes committed by Ben Roberts-Smith in Afghanistan.
A South Carolina store owner accused of fatally shooting a boy is charged with murder
Thursday, June 01, 2023
The store owner, who had a concealed weapons permit, was charged after an autopsy showed the middle school student was shot in the back and deputies spoke to witnesses and reviewed video.
Actor Danny Masterson is found guilty of 2 out of 3 counts of rape in retrial
Wednesday, May 31, 2023
A jury reached the verdict after deliberating for seven days spread over two weeks. They could not reach a verdict on the third count, that alleged "That '70s Show" star raped a longtime girlfriend.
HBO estimates 2.9 million watched 'Succession' finale on Sunday night
Wednesday, May 31, 2023
The show's audience can be expected to expand when delayed viewing is taken into account. The show's episodes this season have been seen by an average of 8.7 million viewers, according to Nielsen.
North Korea says its attempt to launch its first spy satellite ended in failure
Tuesday, May 30, 2023
Following the launch, officials in South Korea's capital of Seoul sent alerts for residents to prepare for evacuation, but there were no immediate reports of damages or disruption.
Secrets of the National Spelling Bee: Picking the words to identify a champion
Tuesday, May 30, 2023
On the eve of the annual Scripps National Spelling Bee, its word selection panel has worked long hours to approve all words, including their spellings, pronunciations and languages of origin.
Russia reports several drone strikes on Moscow buildings as Kyiv is attacked again
Tuesday, May 30, 2023
Explosions were reported in several districts of Moscow and outlying regions of the city Tuesday as Russia launched a pre-dawn air raid on Ukraine's capital Tuesday that killed at least one person.
China launches a new crew into space, including its first civilian astronaut
Tuesday, May 30, 2023
China's space program officials said on Monday they have plans to expand its space station, along with launching a crewed mission to the moon before 2030.
6 adults and 3 children were injured in a shooting at a Florida beach boardwalk
Monday, May 29, 2023
All nine victims injured from the shooting were in stable condition, authorities said, as a preliminary investigation showed that an altercation between two groups resulted in gunfire.
Thousands evacuated as Typhoon Mawar approaches the Philippines
Monday, May 29, 2023
Authorities warned of dangerous tidal surges, flash floods and landslides as Typhoon Mawar blows past the northernmost province of Batanes from Tuesday to Wednesday.
North Korea has notified Japan it plans to launch a satellite in the coming days
Monday, May 29, 2023
North Korea said that it plans to launch a satellite, which may be an attempt to put its first military reconnaissance satellite into orbit. It said the launch window is from May 31 to June 11.
George Maharis, star of TV's 'Route 66' in the 1960s, has died at 94
Monday, May 29, 2023
Maharis, a native New Yorker, was one of seven children born to Greek immigrants. He hoped to be a singer but damaged his vocal cords, so he switched to acting.
3 killed in a shootout at a New Mexico motorcycle rally were rival biker gang members
Sunday, May 28, 2023
Three people were killed and five were wounded in a shooting at an annual motorcycle rally in a New Mexico town late Saturday afternoon, the mayor said.
Russia has launched its 'largest drone attack' of the war on Kyiv, killing one
Sunday, May 28, 2023
Ukraine's capital was subjected to the largest drone attack since the start of Russia's war, local officials said, as Kyiv prepared to mark the anniversary of its founding on Sunday.
Polls have closed in Turkey's presidential runoff election
Sunday, May 28, 2023
Voters in Turkey returned to the polls Sunday to decide whether the country's longtime leader stretches his increasingly authoritarian rule into a third decade or is unseated by a challenger.
'Anatomy of a Fall' wins the top prize at the Cannes Film Festival
Saturday, May 27, 2023
Anatomy of a Fall, which stars Sandra Hüller as a writer trying to prove her innocence in her husband's death, is only the third film directed by a woman to win the Palme d'Or.
2 more Oath Keepers are sentenced to prison terms for the Jan. 6 Capitol attack
Saturday, May 27, 2023
A federal judge sentenced Army veterans Jessica Watkins, of Woodstock, Ohio, to more than eight years in prison and Kenneth Harrelson, of Titusville, Fla., to four years in the 2021 riot.
A judge halts South Carolina's new abortion law pending state Supreme Court review
Friday, May 26, 2023
A judge put South Carolina's new law banning most abortions around six weeks of pregnancy on hold until the state Supreme Court can review the measure.
DEA moves to revoke major drug distributor's license over opioid crisis failures
Friday, May 26, 2023
The agency says it will strip Morris & Dickson of its license to sell highly addictive painkillers after finding it failed to flag thousands of suspicious orders at the height of the opioid crisis.