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Canada's men's soccer team not giving up in quest for qualifying for World Cup
VANCOUBER, B.C. - Canada’s men’s soccer team still has a chance to qualify for the 2018 FIFA World Cup in Russia despite a 2-1 loss to Honduras on Friday. Canada plays El Salvador at BC Pl...
Sep 05, 2016

Looking at Cosby's past for a pattern of drugging, sex abuse
NORRISTOWN, Pa. - They were models and aspiring actresses. One was a flight attendant. Another was a masseuse. Thirteen women who say Bill Cosby drugged and sexually assaulted them over the years have...
Sep 05, 2016

Stats on drug trafficking, race don't back up Maine governor
PORTLAND, Maine - No law enforcement statistics even come close to backing up Republican Gov. Paul LePage’s assertion blacks and Hispanics account for “90-plus per cent” of heroin tr...
Sep 05, 2016
A mystery solved: Where is Scalia buried?
FAIRFAX, Va. - Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia’s funeral was attended by thousands and carried on live television, but when the hearse pulled away from the church and headed to his burial s...
Sep 05, 2016
The biggest what? Dubai seeks glory in obscure world records
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates - The 6,148 whiskey shots perched atop glasses of energy drink waited for the push that might send them tumbling into the record books - just another night in Dubai, and an...
Sep 05, 2016

Poll: Support for Black Lives Matter grows among white youth
WASHINGTON - Support for the Black Lives Matter movement has increased among young white adults, according to a poll that suggests a majority of white, black, Asian and Hispanic young adults now suppo...
Sep 05, 2016
General Motors settles 2 bellwether ignition switch cases
DETROIT - General Motors Co. has settled two federal court cases related to its defective ignition switches, but its legal troubles stemming from the switches are far from over. GM settled the cases f...
Sep 05, 2016

TV's Wyatt Earp, Hugh O'Brian, has died at 91
LOS ANGELES - Hugh O’Brian, who shot to fame as Sheriff Wyatt Earp in what was hailed as television’s first adult Western, has died. He was 91. A representative from HOBY, a philanthropic ...
Sep 05, 2016
Ellsbury's 3 RBIs back Tanaka as Yanks beat Blue Jays 5-3
NEW YORK - Sensing the season’s dwindling days, the New York Yankees opened their penultimate homestand by falling behind on Masahiro Tanaka’s seventh pitch of a sunny Labor Day afternoon....
Sep 05, 2016

McDavid says Team North America's youth will be an asset at World Cup
MONTREAL - Connor McDavid believes Team North America’s youth will be the group’s main asset at the World Cup of Hockey, not its Achilles’ heel. Last year’s first-overall draft...
Sep 05, 2016