Taylor Swift is having a very good weekend: after the blockbuster release of her new album “The Life of a Showgirl,” she triumphed at the North American box office with her special movie theater event.”The Official Release Party of a Showgirl” raked in an estimated $33 million in the Friday to Sunday period in the …
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Finally, something to unite President Donald Trump, his Democratic opponents and the Canadians he’s threatening to annex: a ferociously hungry carp.Invasive carp, sometimes called Asian carp, were introduced in the United States in the 1970s. And they’ve never stopped spreading — and eating everything in their path — since.”They’re eating machines,” said Trisiah Tugade, an …
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The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) said Friday that Kenya had made “significant and demonstrable progress” toward cleaning up its systems, delaying a threatened non-compliance order.The Montreal-based WADA said last month that the Kenyan branch was not meeting its standards and gave it until Friday to address concerns.Kenya’s President William Ruto said Thursday the country would …
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Rookie pitcher Cam Schlittler made a spectacular post-season debut, striking out 12 in eight scoreless innings to carry the New York Yankees to a 4-0 victory over the Boston Red Sox and into the second round of the Major League Baseball playoffs on Thursday.Schlittler gave up just five hits and retired the last nine batters …
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FIFA has unveiled the official match ball for the 2026 World Cup, combining high-tech refinements and design details celebrating the three co-host countries — the United States, Mexico and Canada.The ball, called Trionda, was again designed by German manufacturer Adidas, provider of the official World Cup balls since the 1970 tournament.”I am delighted and proud …
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An infant born prematurely in the western Canadian province of Alberta died as a result of measles, officials said Thursday, the first fatality linked to the disease’s resurgence in the country in the past year.”A child, born prematurely after the mother contracted measles during pregnancy, died shortly after birth,” Alberta Health Minister Adriana LaGrange said …
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The Canadair water bomber revolutionized the fight against wildfires after it debuted in the skies decades ago. Then demand waned and production stopped, but with major blazes intensifying globally, the water-scooping marvel is making a comeback. At a production site in Calgary, in western Canada, workers building a next-generation version of the aircraft are busy trying to …
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Canada on Wednesday denied a request from a controversial theme park to export 30 beluga whales to China, saying the refusal was necessary to protect the mammals from exploitation.Marineland, a now-shuttered tourist attraction near Canada’s iconic Niagara Falls, has faced intense scrutiny for years.The Canadian Press news agency has reported that 20 whales — one …
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Roberta Hill, one of the thousands of Indigenous people who survived Canada’s notorious Mohawk Institute residential school, said she was first sexually abused by an Anglican minister after bidding her visiting mother goodbye.”I was so upset, so distraught, and I was crying,” Hill, now 74, told AFP.”I was taken into a room with the minister, …
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Paul Thomas Anderson’s action thriller “One Battle After Another” stormed to the top of the North American box office on its debut weekend, industry estimates showed Sunday.Starring Leonardo DiCaprio as a retired radical fighter who is dragged back in to action to help his daughter, the film’s veering from the ridiculous to the deadly serious …
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