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Pope Francis to be released from hospital Sunday after 5 weeks fighting life-threatening pneumonia

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Canada prime minister expected to call snap federal election Sunday

Mark Carney is expected to call a snap federal election Sunday, kicking off a campaign that’s sure to focus on the trade war with the US and President Trump’s talk of making the Great White North the 51st state.
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Rangers grind out win over Canucks to end three-game skid, keep playoff hopes alive

The Rangers’ playoff hopes are still alive.
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Fantasy baseball: Take a risk on Josh Lowe, Nolan Jones after their hype fizzled

In fantasy baseball, the allure of post-hype sleepers is irresistible.
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WCW Icon Goldberg Reveals Why He Refused To Turn Heel In WWE

Goldberg has opened up on why he never turned heel in WWE.
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WWE News: Steve Austin Reveals Real-Life Vince McMahon Confrontation During Attitude Era

Steve Austin recalled a real-life confrontation he had with Vince McMahon.
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Now is the time for Rangers to right their Brad Park wrong

If there is ever a time to right the injustice that has perpetrated for decades, it is now.
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March Madness: No. 2 UConn routs Arkansas State 103-34 in opener as Fudd has 27 points

March Madness: No. 2 UConn routs Arkansas State 103-34 in opener as Fudd has 27 points [deltaMinutes] mins ago Now
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Peter Dutton’s taxpayer-funded flight to ‘long lunch’ on Noosa River was investigated by expenses watchdog

Exclusive: Expenses authority found claim was within parliamentary rules because Dutton attended ‘in his official capacity as a minister’

The expenses watchdog launched an investigation into then-home affairs minister Peter Dutton’s use of a taxpayer-funded flight to attend a “long lunch” on a luxury island on the Noosa River in 2019, internal documents reveal.

Dutton billed taxpayers $465 for a flight from Sydney to Maroochydore on 19 July 2019, the same day he was to appear alongside the then-Queensland opposition leader, Deb Frecklington, as a special guest at a private event on Makepeace Island, a resort island part-owned by Richard Branson.

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Proposed nuclear power plants in Queensland could not access enough water to prevent a meltdown, research finds

About 1,000 times the combined capacity of Wivenhoe and Boondooma dams was required to cool Japan’s Fukushima nuclear reactors in 2011

Proposed nuclear power plants in Queensland would not have access to enough water to stop a nuclear meltdown and could strain capacity on drinking water and irrigation supplies even under normal operations, research has found.

Analysis by the Queensland Conservation Council (QCC) has found that one of the two nuclear reactors proposed for the sunshine state under the energy plan that the Coalition will take to the upcoming federal election would require double the water currently used by the existing Callide coal-fired power station. The other, Tarong, would use 55% more water than its existing coal station.

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