| Canada wildfire growing as weather heats up, escape convoy underway Posted: 07 May 2016 08:26 AM PDT  By Rod Nickel and Liz Hampton LAC LA BICHE, Alberta (Reuters) - A raging Canadian wildfire that forced the evacuation of the Alberta oil town of Fort McMurray intensified on Saturday, helped by hot, dry weather, with police escorting a fresh convoy of evacuees out of the region. The blaze, the largest of some 40 wildfires burning across the province of Alberta, has forced some 88,000 residents, the entire population of Fort McMurray, to flee for safety. The weather, with temperatures on Saturday expected to rise as high as 28 degrees Celsius (82.4 Fahrenheit), was hindering efforts to fight the wildfire, said Matthew Anderson, a wildfire information official with the Alberta government.
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| President-elect or not, Trump is going to trial this year in Trump U fraud case Posted: 06 May 2016 07:59 PM PDT  A federal judge in San Diego set the stage on Friday for what could be one of the strangest presidential transitions in history: He ordered that Donald Trump must go to trial starting Nov. 28 in a civil case in which he is accused of defrauding students who attended Trump University. "No doubt this will be a challenge … we're in unchartered waters," said Donald Petrocelli, Trump's lead lawyer in the case, when asked later how his client — if elected in November — would be able to balance preparing to take over the presidency with taking the witness stand in a trial that could run almost until the eve of the following January's inauguration. But Petrocelli said Trump was fully prepared to testify and would even attend "most, if not all" of the trial in order to vindicate himself.
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| Labour's Sadiq Khan elected 1st Muslim London mayor Posted: 06 May 2016 04:54 PM PDT  LONDON (AP) — Labour Party politician Sadiq Khan has been elected London mayor — the first Muslim to lead Europe's largest city.
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| Baseball scraps Puerto Rico series amid Zika concerns Posted: 06 May 2016 02:12 PM PDT  NEW YORK (AP) — Zika virus concerns have forced the Pirates-Marlins series out of Puerto Rico, with baseball saying the two games will instead be played this month in Miami.
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