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Beginning of Story Content After weeks of intense partisanship, U.S. President Barack Obama and congressional leaders made a last-minute stab at compromise Saturday night to avoid a government default threatened for early next week. “There are many elements to be finalized … there is still a distance to go,” Majority Leader Harry Reid cautioned in [...]

Beginning of Story Content A Caribbean Airlines plane carrying 157 passengers, including a dozen Canadians and six crew members, crashed while landing in Guyana early Saturday and broke in two, causing several injuries but no deaths. One Canadian on board suffered a minor injury, according to a statement from the Department of Foreign Affairs and [...]

Beginning of Story Content A 6.4-magnitude earthquake has shaken northeastern Japan, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. But there no tsunami warning was issued, Japanese broadcaster NHK said. The 6.4-magnitude earthquake rattled Japan’s northeast Sunday morning. U.S. Geological Survey The quake struck around 3:53 a.m. local time Sunday about 100 kilometres southeast of the tsunami-ravaged [...]

An illegal kick cost Canada a top-six finish in the women’s 4×100-metre relay at the world swimming championships Saturday. The United States, led by Rebecca Soni, won gold in a time of three minutes 52.36 seconds, not far off the world mark of 3:52.19 that China set in Rome in 2009 before high-tech bodysuits were [...]