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WINNIPEG - The Canadian national basketball men's team couldn't quite erase a 10-point deficit late in the fourth quarter, losing 90-81 to Nigeria in exhibition play on Friday nigh...

OTTAWA - Toronto FC is certainly in control heading back home for their Canadian Championship semifinal. Drew Moor and Tsubasa Endoh scored as Toronto FC went on the road Wednesday and took the openin...

TORONTO - Nick Nurse is already leaving his stamp on Canada's national men's basketball team just one game into his tenure as head coach. Less than two months after guiding the Toronto Raptors to thei...

TORONTO - The rematch between Serena Williams and Naomi Osaka didn't last long. Williams handled Osaka 6-3, 6-4, on Friday in the quarterfinals of the Rogers Cup. It was the first time they played eac...

LOS ANGELES - What if alternative energy isn't all it's cracked up to be? That's the provocative question explored in the documentary "Planet of the Humans," which is backed and promoted by filmmaker ...

LIMA, Peru - Danielle Hanus had a bounce-back performace on her second day in the pool at the Pan Am Games. Hanus won a silver medal on Wednesday in the women's 100-metre butterfly, a day after&n...

NEW YORK - Walmart has ordered workers to remove video game signs and displays that depict violence from stores nationwide after 22 people died in a shooting at one of its Texas stores, but the big bo...

MINNEAPOLIS - A 70-year-old man camping in a Walmart parking lot put a hot cook stove in his van, causing it to catch fire and spread to another van, burning two young sisters and killing one of them,...

NORFOLK, Va. - A federal judge in Virginia ruled Friday that a school board's transgender bathroom ban discriminated against a former student, Gavin Grimm. The ruling by U.S. District Judge Arenda Wri...

EL PASO, Texas - The man accused of carrying out last weekend's deadly mass shooting at a Walmart in the Texas border city of El Paso confessed to officers while he was surrendering and later explaine...