British Columbia's attorney general announced an inquiry into online ticketing site StubHub, days after a CBC News investigation that revealed a mass failure by the ticket reseller platform and cancellation of thousands of FIFA World Cup tickets in Vancouver, Toronto and host cities across North America.
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At 12:06 AM Central Daylight Time, a severe thunderstorm was located 7 miles east of Hayes, or 24 miles west of Fort Pierre, moving east at 30 miles per hour. Hazard: 60 miles per ...
At 12:04 AM Central Daylight Time, Doppler radar was tracking strong thunderstorms along a line extending from near Garden City to 7 miles east of Plymell to near Sublette. Movemen...
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The number of people who signed up for a health plan. And then didn't pay their premium fell much more sharply than it has in years past. Health policy experts blame costs. Far mo...
At 12:13 AM Central Daylight Time, severe thunderstorms were located along a line extending from 5 miles east of Okarche to 4 miles east of Concho to near El Reno, moving east at 3...
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Qatar player Assim Madibo was given a five-match ban on Wednesday for the tackle that broke the leg of Canada midfielder Ismaël Koné at the World Cup. Madibo was issued a straight ...
The cause of the damage could not be independently verified, and authorities did not immediately issue a statement on the incident. BEIJING. Beijing's tallest building showed signs...
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Whether political elites organise into rent-seeking coalitions that capture public resources or civic networks that sustain governance is a central question in comparative politics...
NASA and the commercial company Katalyst Space have concocted a plan to stop a powerful astrophysics satellite from hurtling towards Earth and burning up in the atmosphere. Scienti...
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British Columbia's attorney general announced an inquiry into online ticketing site StubHub, days after a CBC News investigation that revealed a mass failure by the ticket reseller...
CBC/Radio-Canada became a full member of the European Broadcasting Union on Thursday, which means Canada is now eligible to enter the Eurovision Song Contest, but the country’s pub...
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Trading on South Korea's Kospi index was halted for the third time this week to prevent panic selling.
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Secretary of State Marco Rubio promised. "We have a whole-of-government response. It'll be big, it'll be fast, and it'll be effective.".
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Hundreds of people are dead from Europe’s heatwave, in a continent where air conditioning is not the norm. Why Europe can't air condition its way out of extreme heat Ask people in ...
The United States Geological Survey reported an earthquake of magnitude 6.5. The event occurred near 34 km WSW of Sarangani, Philippines. Official monitoring data may be updated as...
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After four years of development, a new exhibit focused on displaced Palestinians has been unveiled at the Canadian Museum for Human Rights in Winnipeg. Fouad Sahyoun flips through ...
We introduce ABC, a fully open-source stack for manipulation with behavior cloning. At its core is ABC-130K, the largest open-source teleoperation dataset to date, featuring 3,500 ...
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What: Flooding caused by excessive rainfall continues. Where: A portion of southeast Kansas, including the following counties, Chautauqua and Montgomery. When: Until 7 AM Central D...
Nayef Samaro, 25, was killed in an Israeli military raid on Nablus, in the occupied West Bank, as he prepared to meet his wife at the hospital for the birth of their first child. N...
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Trading on South Korea's Kospi index was halted for the third time this week to prevent panic selling. Asian stock markets fell sharply on Friday, led by a sell-off in technology f...
At 12:11 AM Central Daylight Time, severe thunderstorms were located along a line extending from 7 miles northwest of Floris to 4 miles north of Elmwood to 6 miles west of Canadian...
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WHO director general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, speaking on Wednesday about the ongoing Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo and Uganda, weighed in on the report of a recent case of Ebola in a doctor in France who had worked in Congo, saying the risk to the rest of the world remains low.
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Denver renters are celebrating falling housing costs. But sometimes cheaper housing is a sign of economic decline. Baumgartner is a 29-year-old internal medicine resident in Denver...
At 11:10 PM Central Daylight Time, a severe thunderstorm was located 6 miles east of Bootleg, or 15 miles north of Friona, moving east at 30 miles per hour. Hazard: 60 miles per ho...
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It's tick season, but how do you avoid the little arachnids? NPR asks two experts in tick bites and behavior. It's tick season, but how do you avoid the little arachnids? NPR asks...
At 11:10 PM Central Daylight Time, a severe thunderstorm was located 8 miles west of Abernathy, moving east at 20 miles per hour. Hazard, hailstones the size of ping pong balls and...
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A combination of factors is making this heatwave more uncomfortable than some we have had in the past, as Simon King explains June temperature records are set to be broken this wee...
Across the United States, fast food chains are turning to AI to run their drive-thru counters, and Canada could be next. Companies say the technology now has higher accuracy than h...
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Most Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models build on a Vision-Language Model (VLM) backbone by attaching an action module and optimizing the full policy jointly. This design inherits ...
Savannah Guthrie spoke on NBC's Today show about a note sent to the media in February regarding her missing mother, Nancy Guthrie, which claimed she had died.
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WHO director general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, speaking on Wednesday about the ongoing Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo and Uganda, weighed in on the report of ...
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH 390 REMAINS VALID UNTIL 1 AM MDT /2 AM CDT/ THURSDAY FOR THE FOLLOWING AREAS IN KANSAS THIS WATCH INCLUDES 13 COUNTIES IN NORTHWEST KANSAS CHEYENNE DECATU...
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AC7664 was enroute from Newark to Halifax on Wednesday afternoon. The captain experienced a medical issue during the flight and it was diverted to Boston. Air Canada says it is working to help its 61 customers who were on the plane make new travel arrangements.
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On the waterfront in Lucerne, Switzerland, soccer fans watched jumbo TVs showing a World Cup match played an ocean away. But the air felt more like the tropics.
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The United States Geological Survey reported an earthquake of magnitude 5.59. The event occurred near 11 km N of Redwood Valley, CA. Official monitoring data may be updated as scie...
The United States Geological Survey reported an earthquake of magnitude 6.9. The event occurred near 30 km ENE of Kuji, Japan. Official monitoring data may be updated as scientists...
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The United States Geological Survey reported an earthquake of magnitude 7.5. The event occurred near 28 km SE of Yumare, Venezuela. Official monitoring data may be updated as scien...
The company is building an app separate from Facebook and Instagram where people can wager on the outcome of real-world events, using "play money." Meta is planning to launch its o...
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The Liberal government wants a Northwest Territories highway, an Arctic deepwater port and a nuclear waste storage facility in northwestern Ontario to be listed as projects of nati...
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH 390 UNTIL 1 AM MDT THURSDAY WHICH REPLACES A PORTION OF TORNADO WATCH 389. THE NEW WATCH IS VALID FOR THE FOLLOWIN...
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AC7664 was enroute from Newark to Halifax on Wednesday afternoon. The captain experienced a medical issue during the flight and it was diverted to Boston. Air Canada says it is wor...
The United States Geological Survey reported an earthquake of magnitude 7.2. The event occurred near 23 km SE of Yumare, Venezuela. Official monitoring data may be updated as scien...
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The 2026 FIFA World Cup final will feature a halftime show for the first time. It has ruffled the feathers of some soccer fanatics. Here's why.
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The 2026 FIFA World Cup final will feature a halftime show for the first time. It has ruffled the feathers of some soccer fanatics. Here's why.
Denver renters are celebrating falling housing costs. But sometimes cheaper housing is a sign of economic decline. Baumgartner is a 29-year-old internal medicine resident in Denver...
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Yet there are nearly twice as many abortions in the U.S. as before. That's because abortion pills are now being prescribed online and mailed. Wade, which had given women the right ...
Albemarle Sound... At 1:21 PM Eastern Daylight Time, a strong thunderstorm was located near Albemarle Sound, moving northeast at 20 knots. Hazard: Wind gusts 34 knots or greater an...
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The group says that it is unlawful for Australia to continue approving fossil fuel exports without protecting its citizens. A group of Australians have accused the government of vi...
After more than a decade without fluoridated water in Saint John, the dental community is seeing a surge in tooth decay among young people. Dr. Kelly Keyes operates a busy dental p...
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Gender-based misconduct and what to do about it dominated the discussion at the first in-person Ottawa police oversight board meeting in more than three years Monday night. Ottawa ...
The reality of Premier Doug Ford’s changes to Ontario’s freedom of information system are beginning to take hold as rejections and denials make their way to requesters. The Ford go...
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The Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool on Washington's National Mall is set to be drained again for repairs after algae and peeling paint appeared just weeks after a $14.7-million US...
A Hamilton teen who pulled a man from a tent engulfed in flames last year has been awarded the Carnegie Medal, given to those who "risked serious injury or death attempting to save...
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Wellness influencers often talk about fixing a broken gut microbiome. And marketers sell tests and supplements to fix your gut health. Here's what what the evidence really shows about gut health.
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Wellness influencers often talk about fixing a broken gut microbiome. And marketers sell tests and supplements to fix your gut health. Here's what what the evidence really shows ab...
Brexit fractured the European Union, and broke British politics. LONDON. Brexit fractured the European Union, and broke British politics. The U.K. is about to get its seventh prim...
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Inflation blew past expectations and rose to 3.2 per cent in May. But core inflation remained on target and the energy price shock is starting to relent. This story is part of Mind...
France is experiencing scorching heat, with most of the population exposed to extreme temperatures. The heat is expected to last until at least the end of the week.
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U.S. Vice-President JD Vance on Monday said his lengthy talks with senior Iranian officials in Switzerland created a "good foundation for a successful final deal" as they negotiate...
The auditor general found four transactions from the mayor's office were non-compliant with city policy. And has referred the matter to the RCMP. Halifax's auditor general has aske...
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One of the most intellectually important relationships in the life of the late Fed chair Alan Greenspan was with his close friend, the formidable novelist and libertarian thinker A...
Mental health assessment commonly relies on isolated screening instruments or data-driven models that often lack interpretability and multi-dimensional integration. Existing approa...
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Despite a multi-million dollar renovation, the Washington DC landmark has peeling paint and algae. Trump claims vandals are partly to blame.
At 1:20 PM Eastern Daylight Time, Doppler radar was tracking strong thunderstorms along a line extending from 10 miles southeast of Boydton to near Norlina to near Henderson. Movem...
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States that have banned abortion are suing to stop mailing of abortion pills over state lines. But the telehealth providers say no matter the outcome, they can adapt, and so will their patients.
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States that have banned abortion are suing to stop mailing of abortion pills over state lines. It was the first weekend in May. A federal appeals court had just made it illegal to ...
During his chairmanship, Greenspan was celebrated as possibly the best central banker in history. But later, his reputation was tarnished by the worst financial crisis since the Gr...
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Montreal police announced "with profound sadness" that Const. Mohamed Lamine Benredouane was the officer who was killed in the line of duty Monday during an intervention in the Côt...
Witnesses described people jumping from windows to escape. While rescue teams broke through a wall to save lives.
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Large language models (LLMs) are typically pretrained on short sequences and then extended to work on longer sequences with additional training. However, such LLMs still struggle t...
Human-hand demonstrations provide a direct and scalable source of physical interaction data for robot learning. While manual retargeting is indispensable for establishing kinematic...
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A ransom note sent days after the disappearance of Nancy Guthrie, the mother of NBC Today show host Savannah Guthrie, said the 84-year-old had died, CNN and other news organization...
The United States authorized Iranian oil sales on Monday, easing decades-old sanctions as it pushes toward a final peace deal with Tehran in return for commitments on nuclear inspe...
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With eight teams already having nothing to play for, has the jeopardy in the group stage at the World Cup been diminished? And are concerns over the integrity of competition justif...
It's still unclear who would fund a proposed $300 billion reconstruction plan for Iran. Former National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan called the whole approach "something entirely...
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