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OTTAWA -- Parks Canada is building a new home for 25 million archaeological and historical artifacts just outside Ottawa. The agency says the building is designed specifically to preserve the objects for the benefit of future generations. Source

MOULTRIE, Ga. - A Georgia woman is accused of dropping and fatally injuring her 3-month-old baby during an altercation with another woman. WALB-TV reports 26-year-old Karen Lashun Harrison was charged with felony murder, cruelty to children and simple battery. Source

LUCAN, Ont. -- Ontario Premier Doug Ford says Boris Johnson will do a "great job" as Britain's next prime minister. Ford praised the new leader of Britain's Conservative Party at a news conference in Lucan, Ont. Source

LONDON -- A giant panda has learned the hard way that his new enclosure is protected by an electric fence. Visitors at Edinburgh Zoo were worried Tuesday after watching male panda Yang Guang run back to his den after being zapped by the barrier. Source

Two members of the Na-Cho Nyäk Dun First Nation, who said they were racially profiled by staff at a B.C. Denny’s restaurant, settled their human rights complaint with the chain. According to lawyers for Helaina Moses and Shane Hummel, the pair visited a 24-hour Denny’s restaurant in Vancouver in November 2017. Source

Warning: Some of the details may be distressing to readers Two pro-meat protesters have been fined after they ate raw, fur-covered squirrels at a vegan food market in London, England. Deonisy Khlebnikov, 22, and Gatis Lagzdins, 29, both from city boroughs, said they were “against veganism and were raising awareness about the dangers of not eating meat,” said senior crown prosecutor Natalie Clines in a press release. Source

NEW YORK -- Lawyers for financier Jeffrey Epstein are appealing a judge's decision to keep him behind bars until a trial on sex trafficking charges. The notice of appeal, dated Monday, was publicly filed Tuesday in Manhattan federal court. Source

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. -- A Florida lawmaker known as a champion for child sexual abuse victims asked Gov. Ron DeSantis on Tuesday to authorize a state investigation into the circumstances of wealthy convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein's freedom to leave jail on work release a decade ago. Source

Thirty-four years ago, the Speaker of the House of Commons was dealing with a leak at Kingsmere that couldn't be fixed by a traditional plumber. Back then, a story was leaked to a newspaper that Kingsmere — the Speaker's official residence in Gatineau Park — was going to have more than $400,000 worth of renovations and repairs undertaken. Source

Afghanistan called on Tuesday for an explanation of comments by U.S. President Donald Trump in which he said he could win the Afghan war in just 10 days by wiping out Afghanistan but did not want to kill 10 million people. Source