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Shah died in hospital after being shot outside his southwest Edmonton home Sunday night, police said in a news release.

Workers are under intense strain amid grueling schedules, union contract negotiations and an arcane attendance policy system. Drastic labor cuts have been implemented in recent years, reducing the workforce and lowering overall costs, while rail transportation companies have used the supply chain crisis to increase fees and make record profits.

Lanisha Bratcher Jones didn’t mean to do something wrong. She just didn’t know. In 2019, Jones was one of four Hoke County residents charged with felony voter fraud from the 2016 election after ballots were cross-referenced with criminal records. Jones had served time in prison for a felony and was out on probation. Under North Carolina law, she wasn’t allowed to vote. No one told her that when she registered. “I know what I did was for a good cause,” Jones told me over the phone this week, getting choked up explaining why she wanted to vote. “You want to see that change, especially in your neighborhood.” Jones’s story resurfaced this week after The New Yorker reported that former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows voted with the address of a mobile home in Macon County that he had never set foot in, let alone lived in long-term or owned. He also registered to vote in Virginia right before the state’s high profile gubernatorial race, resulting in him being registered in two states. Although the story was published Sunday, the N.C. Board of Elections officials have not said whether they’d be handing the case over to prosecutors, who could charge Meadows with voter fraud. Meadows hasn’t spoken publicly about the story and allegations, but he has consistently pushed “the Big Lie” that there was mass voter fraud against the former president in the 2020 election Jones made a mistake. Meadows, it appears, did not. And Jones, for her part, wants to see Meadows go through the same legal process she dealt with for two years, the same legal process that has continuously prosecuted Black North Carolinians. “He should not be above the law,” she says, “because I was not.”

Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) said Monday that he will not vote to confirm President Biden's pick for a powerful position on the Federal Reserve Board over her criticism of the fossil fuel industry.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Federal Reserve on Wednesday will launch one of the most difficult tasks a central bank can attempt: Raise borrowing costs enough to slow growth and tame high inflation, but not so much as to topple the economy into recession.

The battle over to-go beverages has pitted the restaurant industry against the liquor store industry, which has a history of influence in Albany.

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TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — China banned most people from leaving a coronavirus-hit northeastern province and mobilized military reservists Monday as the fast-spreading “stealth omicron” variant fuels the country's biggest outbreak since the start of the pandemic two years ago.

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Conservative media distort the public’s perception of the real threats of anti-Jewish bigotry.

William Hurt, an acclaimed actor best known for his Oscar-winning performance in 1985’s “Kiss of the Spider Woman” and his work in “Broadcast News,” “A History of Violence” and “Children of a Lesser God,” died Sunday of natural causes. He was 71 years old.

Two Ukrainian companies responsible for producing around half of the world's semiconductor-grade neon have shuttered.

Aijaz Ahmad (1941-2022) died at home on March 9, surrounded by his books and papers, and by the warmth of his children and his friends.

The brother of a collapse victim said it was “shocking and disappointing" that the Legislature did not make safety improvements following the disaster.

Why is it taking so long? Buffalo Bills fans have been asking that question regarding one thing or another – be it winning a Super Bowl or finding a quarterback or firing Rex Ryan – for generations. And now some are asking it again, as they wonder why negotiations between Bills owners Terry and Kim Pegula, Gov. Kathy Hochul and Erie County over building a new football stadium in Orchard Park have been quiet for weeks. But here's a bit of contrary thinking that political insiders and others in the know have adopted: It didn't make sense for there to be a deal many weeks ahead of the state's April 1 budget deadline. That, in fact, would be the political equivalent of having Josh Allen and the rest of the Bills offense suit up for a full-pads practice on the Fourth of July, three weeks before the start of training camp. Just as that would increase the odds of Allen getting hurt, striking a stadium agreement too early could hurt Hochul's chances of getting the deal through the State Legislature while also wounding the governor politically. "It's basic politics/government: The longer it’s out there, the more opportunities there are to poke holes and have it fail," said one longtime Buffalo political insider.

The stabbing victims were taken to local hospitals for treatment, said police.

Fort Lauderdale Fire Department Battalion Chief Steve Gollan told Local10 that two of the people who overdosed were sickened because they tried to perform CPR on the initial four overdose victims.

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Saudi Arabia on Saturday executed 81 people convicted of crimes ranging from killings to belonging to militant groups, the largest known mass execution carried out in the kingdom in its modern history. The number of executed surpassed even the toll of a January 1980 mass execution for the 63 militants convicted of seizing the Grand Mosque in Mecca in 1979, the worst-ever militant attack to target the kingdom and Islam’s holiest site. It wasn’t clear why the kingdom choose Saturday for the executions, though they came as much of the world’s attention remained focused on Russia’s war on Ukraine — and as the U.S. hopes to lower record-high gasoline prices as energy prices spike worldwide. British Prime Minister Boris Johnson reportedly plans a trip to Saudi Arabia next week over oil prices as well.

District Judge Amy Clark Meachum said the governor’s directive for the state child welfare agency to investigate parents who provide gender-affirming care to their children was “beyond the scope of his authority and unconstitutional.” The statewide injunction will remain in effect until the case is heard in July.