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By Sarah Jones Global News Posted March 28, 2025 7:25 pm 1 min read Descrease article font size Increase article font size Moose Jaw will soon be hosting an event on the international stage with the World Men’s Curling Championship kicking off Saturday. Team Canada will be represented by Brad Jacobs and his Alberta teammates who won the Brier earlier this year. Get breaking National news For news impacting Canada and around the world, sign up for breaking news alerts delivered directly to you when they happen. The event is not only a win for curling fans in Saskatchewan, but…

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A turbulent week off the field sees Real Madrid return to LaLiga action against Leganes after the international break.Who: Real Madrid vs LeganesWhat: Spanish LaLigaWhere: Santiago Bernabeu, Madrid, SpainWhen: Saturday at 9pm (20:00 GMT) Follow Al Jazeera Sport‘s live text and photo commentary stream. Holders champions Real Madrid have endured a mixed season in the defence of their LaLiga and Champions League double. Barcelona moved three points clear at the top of the Spanish league following their 3-0 win against Osasuna on Thursday. Earlier this season, Real failed to reach the knockout stages of the Champions League automatically and were…

The 2025 NCAA Women’s Tournament continued Friday with the first day of Sweet 16 action.[Read more: 2025 Women’s March Madness Schedule: Dates, locations, channels, how to watch]Duke started the day with a vintage defensive performance, as the second-seeded Blue Devils stifled third-seeded North Carolina. Now, No. 1 seed South Carolina continues its title defense as the Gamecocks take on fourth-seeded Maryland. Later, third-seeded Louisiana State tries to make its third straight Elite Eight appearance, but will have to go through No. 2 seed North Carolina State to get there. The top seed in the NCAA women’s tournament, UCLA, caps the night with its…

Wisconsin’s Democratic attorney general asked a court on Friday to block billionaire Elon Musk from handing out $1 million checks to voters this weekend, just two days before the state’s hotly contested Supreme Court race was to be decided.  Attorney General Josh Kaul filed the lawsuit in Dane County Circuit Court to stop Musk from making the payments, which he said he would make Sunday in Wisconsin. Musk initially said in a post on his social media platform, X, that he planned to “personally hand over” $2 million to a pair of voters who have already cast their ballots in the race.Musk…

HELL TO BREAKFAST: ‘Happy Face’ serial killer nearly confessed brutal murders to teen daughter: ‘You’ll tell the authorities’THE DEVIL WITHIN: Former Duke football player confesses to killing ex-real estate agent friend in her upscale townhome: policeMOTHER MAY I: Kidnapping hoaxer Sherri Papini back in court for child visitation battle with ex-husband Sherri Papini departs a child custody hearing in Redding, California on Friday, March 21, 2025. Papini previously served 18 months in federal prison for faking her own kidnapping in 2016. (Derek Shook for Fox News Digital)FOLLOW THE FOX TRUE CRIME TEAM ON X‘MY LATENT FINGERPRINTS’: Idaho murders suspect Bryan…

By The Staff The Canadian Press Posted March 28, 2025 4:44 pm 1 min read Descrease article font size Increase article font size Mi’kmaw chiefs in Nova Scotia say they are considering legal action against newly passed provincial legislation that opens the door to hydraulic fracturing for natural gas. In a statement, the Assembly of Nova Scotia Mi’kmaw Chiefs says it is considering filing an injunction against the law that lifts a ban on uranium mining and exploration, and ends a moratorium on fracking.The chiefs say the government is making decisions on unceded and traditional Mi’kmaq territory without properly consulting…

Two people are dead and several others have been injured in a shooting in a southern Dutch town.A police helicopter and special intervention units are searching for the shooter in Oosterhout.Shots were fired at two locations in the town around 4pm local time on Friday (Saturday AEDT), police said. They said the shooter’s motive was unclear.Witnesses reported a heavy police presence, with many officers wearing bullet proof vests.Two cars collided at the scene, with visible bullet holes in one vehicle and bloodstains on the driver’s door, according to broadcaster Omroep Brabant.

The pope’s doctors did not think he was going to make it.“It’s terrible,” Pope Francis gasped during a breathing crisis last month. The pope, his hand bruised with needle pricks and his oxygen saturation dipping to a dangerously low 78 during his long hospitalization, acknowledged in a failing voice that he might die. He held his doctor’s hand.Francis had ruled out intubation, which would mean being kept unconscious, the leader of the medical team, Dr. Sergio Alfieri, said in an interview. So his doctors decided to treat the pneumonia in both his lungs with a last-ditch barrage of drugs that…

It was a minute that changed the course of the “Star Wars” franchise. In “The Empire Strikes Back,” the now-celebrated 1980 sequel, audiences were treated to the first on-camera sighting of Emperor Palpatine.After receiving only a glancing mention in the first movie, he could have looked and sounded like anything. A human. A Wookiee. A droid. A turtle. There was, instead, a disfigured, robed face — portrayed by the actress Marjorie Eaton — that terrified fans and etched the character into “Star Wars” lore.But Palpatine’s voice — cool, crisp and commanding — belonged to Clive Revill, who in about 60…