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CARACAS, Venezuela — A police helicopter fired on Venezuela’s Supreme Court and Interior Ministry in what President Nicolas Maduro said was a thwarted “terrorist attack” aimed at ousting him from power. The confusing exchange, which is bound to ratchet up tensions in a country already paralyzed by months of deadly anti-government protests, took place as Maduro was speaking live on state television Tuesday. Source

LETHBRIDGE, Alta. - The jury in gruesome Alberta triple murder trial has a difficult road ahead even after they finish their deliberations, says a former juror who suffered post-traumatic stress disorder from his time in the jury box. Source

A global cyberattack has hit the property arm of France's biggest bank BNP Paribas, one of the largest financial institutions known to be affected by an extortion campaign that started in Russia and Ukraine before spreading. Source

After losing her son, Vanessa Cardinal is about to lose her home. Cardinal said she awoke to a 24-hour eviction notice stuck to her door Saturday, just one day after learning her son Ashton, 17, had been killed in the parking lot outside her apartment unit. Source

WASHINGTON - The Republican Party's long-promised repeal of "Obamacare" stands in limbo after Senate GOP leaders, short of support, abruptly shelved a vote on legislation to fulfil the promise. The surprise development leaves the legislation's fate uncertain while raising new doubts about whether U.S. Source

Canadians will not be singing a gender-neutral national anthem on Canada Day after a bill before Parliament to officially change the lyrics has stalled. The House of Commons overwhelmingly passed a private member's bill last summer that would alter the national anthem by replacing "in all thy sons command" with "in all of us command" as part of a push to strike gendered language from O Canada. Source

Nearly half of all criminal charges in Ontario are withdrawn or tossed out before trial, a higher rate than anywhere else in Canada. The finding comes in a new report that urges reform of the way charges are laid in the province, with the aim of relieving an overcrowded court system. Source

A 28-year-old Toronto man has gone more than a year without having sex — not for health or religious reasons, but because he wants to donate blood. He hasn't been allowed to for years. That's because the man is gay, something he has not yet disclosed to all those in his life. Source

In a desperate bid to save their drug-addicted teenage daughter's life, Sean and Tamara O'Leary finally resorted to breaking the law. For the past two weeks, 16-year-old Paige O'Leary's on-again, off-again battle with opioids has been on, full tilt. Source

Sugar Mobile, the small startup provider offering wireless plans for as little as $19 a month that was effectively given a death sentence by the CRTC, is not quite dead yet. And the fact that it still exists — even on life-support and as a shell of its former self — should give hope to Canadians desperate for more competition in the country's wireless sector, according to industry analysts. Source