By Ashok Sharma The Associated Press NEW DELHI — India’s tiger population has grown to nearly 3,000, making the country one of the safest habitats for the endangered animals. Prime Minister Narendra Modi released the tiger count for 2018 on Monday and said it’s a “historic achievement” for India, whose […]
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The Canadian Press A Canadian investor has purchased a pair of running shoes dating back to Nike’s origins for a record-breaking US$437,500 ‚Äî or roughly C$577,000 ‚Äî at public auction. Miles Nadal won the 1972 Nike Waffle Racing Flat “Moon Shoes” in a Sotheby’s online sale on Tuesday, rounding out […]
By Kevin Freking The Associated Press WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump promised on Friday to retaliate against France for adopting a pioneering tax on internet giants like Google, Amazon and Facebook. He also managed to get in a shot at French wine. Trump, who doesn’t drink alcohol, tweeted: “I’ve always […]
The Associated Press AP Member ESPA\XD1OLA, N.M. — It’ll be one giant leap for chile-kind. A hybrid version of a New Mexico chile plant has been selected to be grown in space as part of a NASA experiment. The chile, from Espa√±ola, New Mexico, is tentatively scheduled to be launched […]
By Sally Ho The Associated Press SEATTLE — Rachel Whalen remembers feeling gutted in high school when a former friend would mock her online postings, threaten to unfollow or unfriend her on social media and post inside jokes about her to others online. The cyberbullying was so distressing that Whalen […]
By Bruce Schreiner The Associated Press FRANKFORT, Ky. — The company behind the world’s top-selling bourbon, Jim Beam, is pouring tens of millions of dollars into a new Kentucky distillery to boost production of craft whiskeys. Beam Suntory executives broke ground Thursday for the production facility at their flagship bourbon […]
By Elizabeth Karmel The Associated Press I love to grill, and barbecue, and I have devoted my career to outdoor cooking for more than two decades. In that time, I’ve seen a lot of mistakes and people tend to make them over and over. So I put together a list […]
Jamie Mountain The picture for the Fort Frances Lakers’ 2019-2020 roster is becoming more clear as the weeks go by. The Lakers announced last Wednesday (July 17) that local forward Noah Loveday is set to return for his third season with the club. “This is a guy that works hard […]
By Jeffrey Schaeffer The Associated Press SANGATTE, France — A French aviation buff and inventor failed Thursday in his attempt to cross the English Channel on a homemade “flyboard.” After careful preparations, Franky Zapata took off from the French coastal town of Sangatte fastened to the small flying platform he […]
By Hyung-Jin Kim The Associated Press SEOUL, Korea, Republic Of — North Korea fired a new type of short-range ballistic missile in two launches into the sea Thursday, South Korean officials said, in its first weapons launches in more than two months and an apparent effort to pressure Washington as […]
The Canadian Press The C.D. Howe Institute says negatives will outweigh the positives for all three parties to the new Canada-United States-Mexico free trade agreement but it will hit Mexico hardest and the U.S. the lightest. In a new analysis to be released Thursday, it says Canada’s real gross domestic […]
By Edith M. Lederer The Associated Press The United States reclaimed its ranking in the top five countries in the world for economic innovation, while China climbed from 17th to 14th position in the new list of nearly 130 nations released Wednesday. The Global Innovation Index 2019 released by the […]
