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Canadian Jessie Fleming hopes to cap UCLA soccer career with NCAA title
After 74 games in UCLA colours, Canadian international Jessie Fleming's collegiate soccer career will end at the College Cup in San Jose, Calif. Fleming's seventh-ranked Bruins (18-4-1) meet ...
Dec 05, 2019
Biden's campaign for U.S. president uses Trudeau in anti-Trump ad
OTTAWA - A video of Justin Trudeau gossiping with other world leaders about Donald Trump is featuring in an advertisement for the U.S. president's leading political rival. Former vice-president Joe Bi...
Dec 05, 2019
US stocks fall for 3rd straight day over more trade worries
Stocks closed broadly lower and bond prices rose sharply on Wall Street Tuesday after President Donald Trump cast doubt over the potential for a trade deal with China this year. Technology companies, ...
Dec 05, 2019
Willie Nelson says he's not smoking, but is still using pot
SAN ANTONIO - Willie Nelson may have given up smoking, but he hasn't stopped using marijuana. While in San Antonio last week for two performances, the 86-year-old country music legend told KSAT TV tha...
Dec 05, 2019
Chris Brown must give up monkeys under judge's restrictions
LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles judge on Wednesday said Chris Brown must give up all rights to his former pet monkey, pay for its care and not try to buy a new one if he wants charges of illegal animal ow...
Dec 05, 2019
Canada women win opening match but men beaten by Samoa at Dubai 7s
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates - Bianca Farella scored two early tries and Canada staved off a Russian rally in the second half to win its opening match 24-19 at the Dubai Sevens on Thursday. The Canadia...
Dec 05, 2019
Mic'd up four-year-old hockey player near top of YouTube's 2019 most viewed list
Celine Dion? Kim Kardashian-West? Prime Minister Justin Trudeau? They've got nothing on a four-year-old named Mason. Jeremy Rupke runs a YouTube channel called Coach Jeremy that features videos on hoc...
Dec 05, 2019
Random House to publish Trump impeachment report
NEW YORK - A leading publisher will release a book edition next week of the House Intelligence Committee's findings on President Donald Trump. Random House told The Associated Press on Wednesday that ...
Dec 05, 2019
Supreme Court won't hear appeal from former Nazi death squad member
OTTAWA - The Supreme Court of Canada will not hear the appeal of an elderly man whose Canadian citizenship was revoked for lying about his membership in a Second World War Nazi death squad. Helmu...
Dec 05, 2019
Gabrielle Union, NBC meet over 'America's Got Talent' firing
LOS ANGELES - Gabrielle Union and NBC both said Wednesday that they have had a "productive" first conversation on her firing from "America's Got Talent" and her allegations that she was removed over h...
Dec 05, 2019