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It's Super Bowl Sunday: are you not entertained?
NEW YORK - Super Bowl Sunday is kicking off. Prepare to be entertained... by the ads. Each year's slate of Super Bowl ads offers a snapshot of the American psyche. Forty-plus brands have shelled out m...
Feb 03, 2019
Canada's Brooke Henderson pulls out of ISPS Handa Vic Open due to illness
VICTORIA, Australia - Canada's Brooke Henderson has pulled out of the ISPS Handa Vic Open due to an undisclosed illness. Henderson made the announcement on Sunday, four days before the openi...
Feb 03, 2019
Virginia Democrat says Northam won't resign
RICHMOND, Va. - A Virginia Democrat who has spoken with Gov. Ralph Northam has told The Associated Press that the governor now does not believe he was in a racist picture in his 1984 medical yearbook ...
Feb 03, 2019
Grammy-nominated rapper 21 Savage in US immigration custody
ATLANTA - Grammy-nominated rapper 21 Savage was taken into federal immigration custody early Sunday, authorities said. The artist, whose given name is Sha Yaa Bin Abraham-Joseph, was arrested in a tar...
Feb 03, 2019
MP says feds slow to act on anti-black racism one year after Trudeau pledge
OTTAWA - Federal efforts to address systemic issues affecting black Canadians appear to have stalled one year after the prime minister made it an issue, says the head of Parliament's black caucus...
Feb 03, 2019
Ryan, Lindhom, Hanifin lift Flames in return to Raleigh
RALEIGH, N.C. - Derek Ryan, Elias Lindholm and Noah Hanifin all scored in their first game back in Carolina, and the Calgary Flames beat the Hurricanes 4-3 on Sunday in coach Bill Peters' return to Ra...
Feb 03, 2019
Trudeau speaks with Venezuelan leader Guaido ahead of key meeting of allies
OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's office says he has spoken with the man Canada and many of its allies consider the legitimate leader of Venezuela. Trudeau's office says he spoke with Juan Guai...
Feb 03, 2019
Drouin scores OT winner as Canadiens hand Oilers fifth straight loss
MONTREAL - Jesperi Kotkaniemi scored in the third period and Jonathan Drouin netted the winner in overtime as the Montreal Canadiens came from behind to defeat the Edmonton Oilers 4-3 on Sunday. Shea ...
Feb 03, 2019
Raptors all-star Lowry out against Clippers with lower-back soreness
TORONTO - Raptors all-star guard Kyle Lowry sat out Toronto's game against the Los Angeles Clippers on Sunday with a sore lower back. The team announced hours before the game that Lowry woul...
Feb 03, 2019
Report finds 'sexual misconduct' by leader of Halifax-based Buddhist church
HALIFAX - Two claims of sexual misconduct against the Halifax-based spiritual leader of the Shambhala International Buddhist organization have been found to be credible, a long-awaited independent pro...
Feb 03, 2019