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Trump stops by a gun shop, resuming in-person campaigning after a weekend leveling treason claims

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 20:41:03 GMT

SUMMERVILLE, S.C. (AP) — Former President Donald Trump stopped by a gun shop and toured a boat building facility in South Carolina Monday, ramping up his in-person campaign after a weekend online threatening the media, making multiple accusations of treason and urging congressional Republicans to go ahead and shut down the government.He also claimed he could design a better fighter jet than the military.The Republican presidential front-runner, who has spent far less time on the campaign trail than his leading rivals, began his trip to small-town Summerville with a meet-and-greet with volunteers at a local campaign office and a visit to a local gun store, where he admired a Glock handgun and posed for photos.Spokesman Steven Cheung posted that the former president, who is currently under federal indictment, had purchased the weapon during his visit to Palmetto State Armory, but later deleted the post on the social media site X, formerly Twitter, and clarified that Trump, “says he wa...

Video shows California deputy slamming 16-year-old girl to the ground outside football game

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 20:41:03 GMT

VICTORVILLE, Calif. (AP) — A viral video shows a Southern California sheriff’s deputy slamming a teenage girl to the ground during a fight outside a Friday night high school football game, a use of force her mother says sent the 16-year-old to the hospital with injuries to her head and spine.The altercation prompted a protest Sunday at the San Bernardino County sheriff’s substation in Victorville, about 65 miles (105 kilometers) northeast of downtown Los Angeles. The video, recorded on a bystander’s cellphone, shows the 16-year-old girl at first struggling with one San Bernardino County sheriff’s deputy. Another approaches her from behind and grabs her around her torso. That deputy lifts her up off the ground and slams her backwards to the pavement. The footage shows the teen’s head and back hitting the ground hard as her legs fly up into the air.The department’s news release said the deputy “pulled the female away causing her to land on the ground.”The sheriff’s d...

Monday night’s $785M Powerball jackpot is ninth largest lottery prize. Odds of winning are miserable

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 20:41:03 GMT

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — The ninth-largest lottery jackpot will be on the line Monday night when numbers are drawn for a $785 million Powerball prize.The payout has grown so large because it has been building for more than two months, since a player in California matched all six numbers on July 19 and won $1.08 billion. That’s 28 consecutive drawings without a big winner.That winless streak is due to the miserable odds of winning the Powerball jackpot, at 1 in 292.2 million. It’s those long, long odds that result in such large top prizes, as they cause the jackpot to roll over week after week.The jackpot is the ninth-largest in the world, behind top prizes in the Powerball and Mega Millions games that all topped $1 billion. The biggest jackpot was a $2.04 billion Powerball prize won in November 2022 in California.Although the game highlights the $785 million prize, that is for a winner who is paid through an annuity over 30 years. Winners almost always choose the cash pay...

Energy stocks help lift S&P/TSX composite, U.S. stock markets also up

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 20:41:03 GMT

TORONTO — Strength in energy stocks helped Canada’s main stock index close slightly higher Monday, while U.S. stock markets also ended up to start the week.Gains in oil and gas stocks, however, were offset by losses in financials, telecoms and utilities to leave the S&P/TSX composite index up only 20.64 points on the day at 19,800.61.“There’s a lot of mixed messaging in today’s market,” said Stephen Duench, vice-president and portfolio manager for AGF Investments Inc.High bond yields continue to weigh on markets, amid increasing signs that interest rates will remain higher for longer.Last week, the U.S. Federal Reserve left its key interest rate unchanged, but signalled it could hike one more time this year and halved its projections for cuts next year. The news helped set Wall St. on its worst week in six months.U.S. markets were mixed during the trading day Monday but managed to make gains. The Dow Jones industrial average ended up 43.04 points at 34,006.88. The S&P ...

Canadian auto workers to target General Motors after deal with Ford is ratified

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 20:41:03 GMT

DETROIT (AP) — Canadian auto workers say General Motors will be their next target after members ratified a new three-year labor contract with Ford.Unifor, which represents about 4,300 workers at three GM facilities in Canada, said Monday it reached a strong deal with Ford and now will try to negotiate a pattern agreement with GM.President Lana Payne said the union has a lot of bargaining leverage with GM because a factory in Oshawa, Ontario, is working around the clock to build profitable Chevrolet Silverado pickup trucks. “I don’t expect this to be an easy round of talks, and I want to make sure our union is best positioned to move this pattern forward for the benefit of all members, active and retired,” she said in a statement.Workers at Ford of Canada ratified a new deal on Sunday that raises base hourly pay for production workers by almost 20% over three years, and by more than 25% for trade workers. It also gives permanent workers a $10,000 bonus and adds a cost-of-living adjus...

CP NewsAlert: Quebec police say three fishers are dead after boat sinks

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 20:41:03 GMT

MONTREAL — Quebec provincial police say three people are dead after a fishing boat sunk off the province’s Lower North Shore.Police say six people were aboard the boat out of Blanc Sablon, Que., when it ran into trouble around midnight.More coming.The Canadian Press

CP NewsAlert: Regulator rules in favour of Trans Mountain route deviation

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 20:41:03 GMT

CALGARY — The Canada Energy Regulator has approved Trans Mountain Corp.’s application to modify the pipeline’s route.More coming.The Canadian Press

Container shipments drop 14% at Port of Vancouver as consumer demand falls

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 20:41:03 GMT

The number of shipping containers passing through Canada’s largest port fell sharply in the first half of the year, as consumer demand weakened amid a sputtering economy.Container volumes at the Port of Vancouver fell 14 per cent in the first six months of 2023 compared with the same period a year earlier, the Vancouver Fraser Port Authority said Monday.In a phone interview, interim CEO Victor Pang said the figures reflected a weaker economy, which contracted slightly in the second quarter.“There’s some economic softness, overall and for Canada. And you’re seeing that through our container numbers,” Pang said, noting that the decline was not unique to Canadian ports.Consumer goods volumes fell 12 per cent year-over-year, a decrease driven mainly by lower demand but also overstocked inventories, he added.Shipments of construction materials and auto parts also slumped, while movement of finished vehicles revved up as supply chain kinks smoothed out.Grain ...

Stock market today: Wall Street recoups some of last week’s loss but still on pace for an ugly month

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 20:41:03 GMT

NEW YORK (AP) — Wall Street clawed back some of its steep losses from last week, but September is still on track to be its worst month of the year despite Monday’s gains.The S&P 500 rose 17.38, or 0.4%, to 4,337.44, coming off its worst week in six months. The Dow Jones Industrial Average edged up by 43.04, or 0.1%, to 34,006.88, and the Nasdaq composite gained 59.51, or 0.5%, to 13,271.32.Oil-related stocks led the way, as Exxon Mobil rose 1.1% and ConocoPhillips gained 1.6%. As a group, energy stocks in the S&P 500 climbed nearly twice as much as any of the other 11 sectors that make up the index. While crude oil prices were mixed Monday, they’ve leaped sharply since the early summer.Oil’s jump has helped to hurt Wall Street broadly, where the realization is sinking in that the Federal Reserve will likely keep interest rates high well into next year. The Fed is trying to ensure high inflation gets back down to its target, and it said last week it will likely cu...

AP Interview: US aims to create nuclear fusion facility within 10 years, Energy chief Granholm says

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 20:41:03 GMT

VIENNA (AP) — The Biden administration hopes to create a commercial nuclear fusion facility within 10 years as part of the nation’s transition to clean energy, U.S. Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm said Monday.Calling nuclear fusion a pioneering technology, Granholm said President Joe Biden wants to harness fusion as a carbon-free energy source that can power homes and businesses.“It’s not out of the realm of possibility” that the U.S. could achieve Biden’s “decadal vision of commercial fusion,” Granholm said in a wide-ranging interview with The Associated Press in Vienna.Fusion works by pressing hydrogen atoms into each other with such force that they combine into helium, releasing enormous amounts of energy and heat. Unlike other nuclear reactions, it doesn’t create radioactive waste. Proponents of nuclear fusion hope it could one day displace fossil fuels and other traditional energy sources. But producing carbon-free energy that powers homes and businesses from fus...