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Police say five people, including three infants, were stabbed at an overnight daycare centre in New York City. Authorities say the stabbings happened just before 4 a.m. Friday at a home in Queens. A three-day-old girl and a one-month-old girl were stabbed in the abdomen and a 20-day-old girl suffered cuts to her ear, chin and lip. Source

LAS VEGAS -- His own political fortunes intrinsically linked to his party holding control of Congress, U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday offered full-throated support for the most vulnerable incumbent Republican senator, while unleashing a torrent of grievances against Democrats and the news media and claiming they are sabotaging his administration. Source

Students across Ontario are being urged to walk out of school Friday in protest of changes to sex education and indigenous curriculum. The effort is being called the March for Our Education. Students, teachers and staff at more than 100 Ontario high schools are expected to take part. Source

The Chinese government expressed anger on Friday and demanded the withdrawal of Trump administration sanctions laid a day earlier on its military for purchases made in Russia. The sanctions, part of a sweeping law punishing Moscow for interfering in the 2016 U.S. Source

Police are urging the public to be on the lookout for a millionaire fugitive accused of murdering his wife in their California mansion who they believe may be hiding in Canada. Peter Chadwick was charged with killing his wife Quee, known as Q.C. Source

LONDON -- The British government on Friday accused the European Union of slamming the handbrake on Brexit negotiations, after the bloc said Prime Minister Theresa May's blueprint was unworkable. European Council President Donald Tusk said bluntly at a meeting in Salzburg, Austria on Thursday that parts of May's plan simply "will not work," while French President Emmanuel Macron called pro-Brexit U.K. Source

A Japanese spacecraft has released two small exploration robots on an asteroid in a research effort that may provide clues to the origin of the solar system. The Japan Space Exploration Agency said the two Minerva-II-1 rovers were lowered from the unmanned spacecraft Hayabusa2 to the asteroid Ryugu. Source

More than 100 bodies have been recovered after a ferry sank Thursday in Lake Victoria, according to Tanzanian state radio, and many more people are feared missing as rescuers search for survivors. Radio TBC Taifa reported Friday the latest toll from the sinking of the ferry MV Nyerere, which capsized just a few metres from the dock on Ukerewe, the lake's biggest island, which is part of Tanzania. Source

The federal Liberal government will make an announcement in Halifax this morning regarding the future of the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion project. Amarjeet Sohi, minister of natural resources, and Jonathan Wilkinson, minister of fisheries and oceans, will reveal the details starting at 9 a.m. Source

With floodwaters from Florence receding in some places and still menacing others following last week's hurricane-tropical storm, tired and waterlogged North Carolinians are finally getting a chance to take stock of the destruction from the wind and floodwaters. Source