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This flight attendant was told it was safe to fly to Mexico — then she got detained by ICE
Dreamer Selene Saavedra Roman worked a shift from Houston to Mexico and back. When she got home, she was arrested and threatened with deportation.
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Montreal churchgoer vows to pray for injured priest, and the man who stabbed him
Adèle Plamondon says she'll be back at Saint Joseph's Oratory first thing in the morning after a priest was stabbed during mass on Friday.
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Legendary Toronto antiques collection going up for auction this weekend
The contents of Addison's, Inc. are up for auction two years after store founder Jim Addison's death.
Why this journalist quit Australia's Sky News after the New Zealand mosque shootings
"Over the past three years where I worked there, I could just see that there was more and more hatred, more and more division, more and more misinformation," says Rashna Farrukh.
Nan Goldin cheers museum's 'courageous' decision to turn down $1.7M from OxyContin family
The museum has become the first to publicly turn down money from the Sackler Trust, which is linked to OxyContin makers Purdue Pharma.
This 88-year-old ex-senator is letting 3 teenagers run his presidential campaign
When three teenagers asked Mike Gravel to run for president, his immediate response was: "Do you know how old I am?"
As It Happens: Thursday Edition
March 21, 2019
Hotel manager in Zimbabwe shelters hundreds displaced by Cyclone Idai
The manager of a small Zimbabwe hotel has opened the doors to hundreds of people left homeless by a devastating cyclone.
Drug charges meant to discredit Chechen activist: human rights activist
A prominent human rights activist has been sentenced to four years in prison after a trial that many say is a sham. Human Rights Watch's Rachel Denber says the proceedings against Oyub Titiev were a "show trial" designed to intimidate.
This crop circle of Beto O'Rourke is the size of two football fields
Kansas artist Stan Herd demonstrated his support for Democratic presidential candidate Beto O'Rourke in a way few others can: by enshrining his likeness in a giant crop circle in a Texas field.
As It Happens: Wednesday Edition
March 20, 2019
Why this N.Z. farmer gave up his semi-automatic rifle after the mosque shootings
New Zealand farmer John Hart has been a legal gun owner for nearly two decades — but on Sunday, he turned his semi-automatic rifle over to the police to be destroyed.
Alabama woman who took over newspaper from pro-KKK editor quits a month later
An African-American woman who took over the helm of a small-town Alabama newspaper that recently called for the Ku Klux Klan to "ride again" has stepped down after a few weeks, citing interference from the newspaper's owner.
A reporter asked the government about a Navy ship — then got a call from an Irving president
After submitting questions to the government, a Postmedia journalist received a phone call from Irving's president, followed by an email threatening to sue.
As It Happens: Tuesday Edition
March 19, 2019
'Just bag after bag after bag': 40 kg of plastic found in dead whale's stomach
When a dead whale was discovered on a beach in the Philippines on Saturday, government veterinarians mistook it for a pregnant female because of its swollen belly.
How a reporter identified an Indigenous elder in a photo from a German museum
Indian Country Today reporter Vincent Schilling was drawn in by a German museum's efforts to identify a man sporting a Native American headdress in a poster from the 1970s.
As It Happens: Monday Edition
March 18, 2019
'I mean, who can do this?' says N.Z. mosque shooting survivor who watched his friend die
Syed Ahmed was sitting in the front row of the Linwood mosque for Friday prayers when the gunshots started to go off.
Mosque shootings mark New Zealand's 'loss of innocence,' says former PM
New Zealanders are coming to terms with the fact that their remote country is not immune to the kind of deadly violence that plagues other nations, says former prime minister Helen Clark.
Why this N.Y. lawmaker wants to let teens get vaccinated without parental permission
The bill comes in response to the recent rise of measles outbreaks around the world, including in New York state, which has been experiencing its largest outbreak of the disease in more than 20 years.
As It Happens: Friday Edition
March 15, 2019
Ex-Yale admissions dean worries college scandal will keep underprivileged kids from applying
Asha Rangappa says the biggest victims of the admissions scandal are all the bright and diverse students who will be discouraged from applying to Ivy League schools.
Family of victim 'devastated' only one British soldier charged in Bloody Sunday killings
A former British paratrooper is charged with two counts of murder for his role in the 1972 Bloody Sunday massacre, but Kate Nash says that won't bring justice for the killing of her brother and the others gunned down that day.
How these Toronto UPS workers helped a scammed woman get her $12.5K back
A Toronto woman drained her credit card, stuffed $12,500 in cash inside a magazine and shipped it through UPS to a man she thought was her jailed nephew's lawyer — only to find she'd been scammed.
