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Descrease article font size Increase article font size Saskatoon’s Prairie Lily is ready to sail this summer but its return to the river is delayed, as was the Water Security Agency’s (WSA) work in southern sections of the province. The provincial agency is focused on managing and forecasting flood conditions in east central and northeastern parts of the province as springtime overland flooding impacts those communities, according to a social media update shared by the Prairie Lily. Get daily National news Get daily Canada news delivered to your inbox so you’ll never miss the day’s top stories. This year’s late…

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Fernandez enters office with her right-wing party holding absolute majority in the country’s legislature.Published On 8 May 20268 May 2026Laura Fernandez has been sworn in as Costa Rica’s new president and has vowed to fight rising crime in the Central American country, as well as maintain close ties with the United States.Fernandez defeated a crowded field in the February 1 vote to replace outgoing president Rodrigo Chaves, who has remained a close ally of US President Donald Trump.Recommended Stories list of 3 itemsend of listIn an unorthodox move, Chaves is set to remain in the government as dual minister of…

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Shares of Intel surged sharply on Friday after a report said the company had reached a preliminary agreement with Apple to manufacture some of the chips used in the iPhone maker’s devices.According to a Wall Street Journal report citing people familiar with the matter, Apple and Intel had been engaged in intensive talks for more than a year and finalised a formal agreement in recent months.Intel shares extended gains following the report and were last up around 14%, while Apple stock rose about 2%.The potential agreement would represent a major breakthrough for Intel’s manufacturing business, which the company has been…

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NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Newly declassified government files detailing “UFO” sightings during NASA’s Apollo missions are challenging long-running conspiracy theories that the Moon landings were staged.The conspiracy theories — which claim NASA faked the Apollo 11 moon landing on July 20, 1969, and subsequent missions to win the Space Race, often alleging the events were filmed in a studio — have persisted for decades.The newly released files, however, provide additional context and previously unpublished material from the missions, including astronaut transcripts and archival imagery.GOT A TIP? Conspiracy theories surrounding the Moon landings have proved worryingly persistent…

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NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! A top Virginia Democrat’s support for his state’s redistricting referendum ironically backfired after a judge he previously appointed helped torpedo his party’s bid to redraw the state’s congressional districts.Sen. Mark Warner, D-Va., who endorsed the referendum and appeared at pro-referendum events, gave $100,000 to the campaign behind Virginia Democrats’ redistricting effort, which voters approved in April. On Friday, a judge Warner appointed when he was governor in 2002, D. Arthur Kelsey, was among the four justices who voted to strike the referendum down on constitutional grounds. In fact, Judge Kelsey authored the…

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NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! A college football standout was sentenced to 16 years in prison on Friday for his role in a $197 million fraud scheme.Rufus French participated in a yearslong scheme in which he sold patient information and shammed doctors’ orders for orthotic braces that patients did not want or need.”Fueled by lies, bribes, and overseas telemarketers, this corrupt scheme preyed on senior citizens and disabled veterans to flood the country with unnecessary medical devices — and then billed the taxpayer for it,” said Assistant Attorney General Colin M. McDonald of the Justice Department’s National…

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Michael Burry attends “The Big Short” New York screening Ziegfeld Theater on Nov. 23, 2015 in New York City. Astrid Stawiarz | Getty ImagesMichael Burry of “Big Short” fame is warning that the stock market’s fixation on artificial intelligence is beginning to resemble the final stages of the dot-com bubble.”Absolutely non-stop AI. Nobody is talking about anything else all day,” Burry wrote Friday in a Substack post after listening to financial television and radio coverage during a long drive.The investor, best known for predicting the U.S. housing crash, said stocks are no longer reacting meaningfully to economic data such as…

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A Chinese court ruling that outlaws companies from demoting or firing employees solely to replace them with artificial intelligence has reignited the debate over the technology’s impact on labour markets — and whether Canada is failing to respond quickly enough. The ruling, posted online last week by the Hangzhou Intermediate People’s Court, sided with a senior technology worker who was offered a reduced salary and job transfer when his employer sought to automate his role with AI. The worker’s employment was terminated after he refused the offer.The case clarified that “the development of artificial intelligence technology is intended to liberate…

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