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Carter: Still a model for candidates asking 'Why not me?'

Carter: Still a model for candidates asking 'Why not me?'

ATLANTA (AP) — As the 2024 campaign season begins, political players are looking in the mirror and deciding whether they see an American president staring back. It was no different for Jimmy Carter in the early 1970s.
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Sri Lanka police fire tear gas at election protest; 15 hurt

Sri Lanka police fire tear gas at election protest; 15 hurt

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Police in Sri Lanka on Sunday fired tear gas and water cannons to disperse protesters angry over a decision to postpone local elections after the government said it cannot finance them because of the country's crippling econ
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Inuit 15 times more likely to be jailed in Quebec than the provincial average

Inuit 15 times more likely to be jailed in Quebec than the provincial average

MONTREAL — Osman Ilgun was arrested in September 2021 and soon transferred to a detention centre 1,500 kilometres away from his home in the Inuit community of Quaqtaq in Quebec's Nunavik region. At the jail in Amos, Que.
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Black activist who became PM of Dominica was target of RCMP dirty tricks: documents

Black activist who became PM of Dominica was target of RCMP dirty tricks: documents

OTTAWA — It has long been known that the RCMP Security Service took a keen interest in Roosevelt "Rosie" Douglas, a Black rights activist who attended school in Canada and would go on to be prime minister of Dominica.
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Borsch without a 't': Kyiv chef uses food to reclaim culture

Borsch without a 't': Kyiv chef uses food to reclaim culture

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Don’t tell Ievgen Klopotenko that borsch is just food. For him, that bowl of beet-and-meat soup is the embodiment of everything Ukraine is fighting for.
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B.C. premier says some deficits require spending as NDP prepares to table budget

B.C. premier says some deficits require spending as NDP prepares to table budget

VICTORIA — British Columbia's New Democrat government has been tackling some of the province's fundamental deficits in recent months by spending billions in surplus dollars, says Premier David Eby.
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Mexican president posts photo of what he claims is an elf

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico’s president posted a photo on his social media accounts Saturday showing what he said appeared to be a mythological woodland spirit similar to an elf.
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B.C. Premier David Eby announces more cost-of-living supports

B.C. Premier David Eby announces more cost-of-living supports

SURREY, B.C. — British Columbia Premier David Eby announced another round of the BC Affordability Credit on Saturday to help offset inflation costs as he marked 100 days at the province's helm.
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EPA orders 'pause' of derailment contaminated waste removal

EPA orders 'pause' of derailment contaminated waste removal

EAST PALESTINE, Ohio (AP) — Federal environmental authorities have ordered a temporary halt in the shipment of contaminated waste from the site of a fiery train derailment earlier this month in eastern Ohio near the Pennsylvania state line.
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Judge orders ex-jail union boss to be freed in bribery case

Judge orders ex-jail union boss to be freed in bribery case

NEW YORK (AP) — A powerful New York jail union boss-turned-prison inmate is poised to go free less than halfway through his sentence in a corruption case , after a judge decided this week that the nearly five-year term should be reduced.
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