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CHICAGO - Two brothers who told police that “Empire” actor Jussie Smollett paid them $3,500 to help stage an attack on himself in Chicago say they regret their involvement in the incident....

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. - Alex Guarnaschelli might be a revered judge on TV’s Chopped, one of the few female iron chefs and the author of two bestselling cookbooks, but in her 11-year-old daughter...

NEW YORK - The author of a debut young adult novel has pulled his book amid criticism of how it portrayed the Kosovo War of the late 1990s. Kosoko Jackson tweeted Thursday that he had asked his publis...

NAIROBI, Kenya - The United States military on Friday said it had killed 26 fighters with the al-Shabab extremist group with an airstrike in central Somalia, after a pair of strikes earlier this week ...

WINNIPEG - Investigators say at least one million litres of petroleum crude oil were released when a freight train derailed last month on a ranch in western Manitoba. The update from the Transportatio...

TORONTO - Ask Toronto FC president Bill Manning what he heard from supporters in the off-season and the answer is simple. “They’re saying we don’t want to sit through another season ...

LAGOS, Portugal - Captain Christine Sinclair rescued Canada with an 81st-minute penalty in a 1-0 win over Scotland at the Algarve Cup on Friday. It was her 179th career international goal, moving Sinc...

LONDON - For almost as long as Britain and the European Union have been wrangling over Brexit, Melvin Burton has been preparing for a bumpy landing. He’s growing vegetables, drying fruit and buy...

CINCINNATI - Unlike President Donald Trump, Otto Warmbier’s parents don’t believe North Korea’s leader. The parents of the American college student who was sent home from North Korea...

WASHINGTON - Senate opponents of President Donald Trump’s declaration of a national emergency at the Mexican border have moved very close to having enough votes to prevail, and one Republican su...