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Toronto Sun Sunday, July 28, 2024 2:00 AM
     Andy Donato cartoon, July 28, 2024

Toronto Sun Sunday, July 28, 2024 2:00 AM
     SUNshine Girl Hillary likes to 'just chill' … and party. The dark-haired Taurus is also is fond of hockey. Hillary posed for us in December 2017. (Toronto Sun)      

Toronto Sun Saturday, July 27, 2024 10:51 PM
     HARRISON, N.J. — Toronto FC, thanks to goalkeeper Sean Johnson, edged the New York Red Bulls 5-4 in a penalty shootout after their 2024 Leagues Cup opener ended in a scoreless draw in regulation time Saturday. Matty Longstaff, Kosi Thompson, Derrick Etienne Jr., Jonathan Osorio and Shane O'Neill scored penalties for Toronto. Red Bulls goalkeeper […]

Toronto Sun Saturday, July 27, 2024 10:29 PM
     TORONTO — Lirim Hajrullahu's 34-yard field goal in overtime earned the Toronto Argonauts a wild 16-14 victory over the Winnipeg Blue Bombers on Saturday night. Hajrullahu connected for three points after Winnipeg's Sergio Castillo missed from 41 yards out on his club's first possession of overtime for a single. Toronto (4-3) earned a second straight […]

CityNews Toronto Sunday, July 28, 2024 5:03 AM
     COTONOU, Benin (AP) — At least seven members of Beninese security forces and five rangers working with a conservation nonprofit have been killed in an attack by an armed group in Benin's National Park W that is overrun by militants, according to the conservation group. The attack earlier this week on Wednesday happened not far […]

CityNews Toronto Sunday, July 28, 2024 5:02 AM
     WASHINGTON (AP) — Vice President Kamala Harris' campaign has raised $200 million since she emerged as the likely Democratic presidential nominee last week, an eyepopping haul in her race against the Republican nominee, former President Donald Trump. The campaign, which announced its latest fundraising total on Sunday, said the bulk of the donations — 66% […]

CityNews Toronto Sunday, July 28, 2024 2:21 AM
     BEIJING (AP) — Lawmakers from at least six countries say Chinese diplomats are pressuring them not to attend an annual China-focused summit in Taiwan. Politicians in Bolivia, Colombia, Slovakia, North Macedonia, Bosnia and one other Asian country that declined to be named, told The Associated Press they are getting texts, calls and urgent requests for […]

CityNews Toronto Sunday, July 28, 2024 1:51 AM
     CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Nicolás Maduro struts across the stage, flapping his arms to a trap merengue beat as a high-pitch rooster crow blasting from a wall of speakers energizes throngs of diehards gathered to support the Venezuelan president's re-election bid. Campaign jingles are never an afterthought in music-loving Venezuela, and this catchy one about […]

CityNews Toronto Sunday, July 28, 2024 1:50 AM
     CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — The past two months were unlike anything Edmundo González Urrutia had ever experienced: He gave political speeches, shook people's hands and waved from the top of a truck moving through cheering crowds gathered across Venezuela. He also shed the title of ambassador for that of presidential candidate. The dramatic life changes […]

CityNews Toronto Sunday, July 28, 2024 1:29 AM
     CHADDS FORD, Pa. (AP) — At first glance, it looks like an aerial photo of a cemetery destroyed by war, with charred coffins ripped from broken concrete vaults and arched marble tombstones flattened by a bomb blast. Then, the viewer begin to discern details: the coffins and vaults are actually parts of a keyboard. Instead […]

CityNews Toronto Sunday, July 28, 2024 1:18 AM
     BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — Imagine planning a vacation and not being able to check Airbnb or another online booking site for an apartment in which to spend a few days walking, shopping and eating among the locals. Would a hotel do? That's the future confronting visitors to central Barcelona in four years. To safeguard and […]

CityNews Toronto Sunday, July 28, 2024 1:05 AM
     Wisconsin Republicans are asking voters to take away the governor's power to unilaterally spend federal money, a reaction to the billions of dollars that flowed into the state during the COVID-19 pandemic. Democratic Gov. Tony Evers was free to spend most of that money as he pleased, directing most of it toward small businesses and […]

CityNews Toronto Sunday, July 28, 2024 12:48 AM
     James Peeler's phone blew up with messages as he drove home from church in Texas. Reading a book on her couch in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, Wendy Schweiger spied something on Facebook. After finishing a late-night swim in the Baltic Sea off Finland, Matti Niiranen clicked on a CNN livestream. Each learned that President Joe Biden had […]

CityNews Toronto Sunday, July 28, 2024 12:29 AM
     AMES, Iowa (AP) — Iowa's law banning most abortions after about six weeks of pregnancy goes into effect Monday, a drastic change that enrages — but doesn't surprise — Sarah Traxler. When Traxler, an OB-GYN based in Minnesota and the chief medical officer of Planned Parenthood North Central States, went to high school in a […]

CityNews Toronto Sunday, July 28, 2024 12:19 AM
     BEIJING (AP) — At least 12 people were killed after a mudslide hit a homestay house in a tourist area in southeastern China on Sunday as heavy rains from what remained of a tropical storm drenched the region, state media said. Elsewhere in China, a delivery person on a scooter was killed Saturday after being […]

CityNews Toronto Sunday, July 28, 2024 12:10 AM
     LOS ANGELES (AP) — Los Angeles is the nation's epicenter of homelessness, where more than 45,000 people live in weather-beaten tent encampments and rusting RVs. But even in the state that is home to Silicon Valley, technology has not kept up with the long-running crisis. Billions of dollars have been spent to get homeless people […]

CityNews Toronto Sunday, July 28, 2024 12:05 AM
     LOS ANGELES (AP) — Billions of dollars have been spent on efforts to get homeless people off the streets in California, but outdated computer systems with error-filled data are all too often unable to provide even basic information like where a shelter bed is open on any given night, inefficiencies that can lead to dire […]

CityNews Toronto Sunday, July 28, 2024 12:05 AM
     Strike on Israeli Golan Heights kills 11 and threatens to spark a wider war. Hezbollah denies a role TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — A rocket strike Saturday at a soccer field killed at least 11 children and teens, Israeli authorities said, in the deadliest strike on an Israeli target along the country's northern border since […]

CityNews Toronto Sunday, July 28, 2024 12:04 AM
     CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — The people of Venezuela are voting Sunday in a presidential election whose outcome will either lead to a seismic shift in politics or extend by six more years the policies that caused the world's worst peacetime economic collapse. Whether it is President Nicolás Maduro who is chosen, or his main opponent, […]

G-Alt cp24.com Saturday, July 27, 2024 8:55 PM
     When officers arrived, police said they found a man in his 20s suffering from a gunshot wound. Toronto paramedics told CP24 they transported the ...

Ottawa Sun Sunday, July 28, 2024 5:00 AM
     Here are today's Ottawa Sun letters to the editor.

Calgary Herald Sunday, July 28, 2024 4:39 AM
     When The Roots first walked on stage at Prince's Island Park Saturday night, rapper and lead MC Black Thought mentioned something about wanting to pay tribute to the 45-year history of the Calgary Folk Music Festival. For the next two hours, the Philadelphia-based hip-hop band offered a dizzying number of tributes, although often to artists […]

Calgary Herald Saturday, July 27, 2024 10:43 PM
     Moving day delivered at Earl Grey. Certainly it did for the leader of the 2024 CPKC Women's Open and for a few now-contenders for Sunday's title to crown a winner at the Canadian championship. Haeran Ryu carded a sizzling 8-under 64 Saturday for a 13-under 203 to switch places with American Lauren Coughlin, as the […]

Calgary Herald Saturday, July 27, 2024 10:33 PM
     Japan's Mao Saigo described it as the best round of her life.  For anybody good enough to play their way onto the top tours, that's really saying something.  Saigo was dropping absolutely everything — putts, jaws, even a 133-yard wedge-shot from the fairway — during Saturday's third round of the CPKC Women's Open at Earl […]

Vancouver Sun Saturday, July 27, 2024 11:18 PM
     Popular Slocan Valley tourist destination has been on evacuation alert for over a week