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LITTLE ROCK, Ark. - Attorneys for two death row inmates who were spared from execution last year asked Arkansas’ highest court on Thursday to strike down a law that gives the state’s priso...

COOPERSTOWN, N.Y. - The Baseball Hall of Fame has opened a new exhibit on Moe Berg, the major league catcher-turned-spy whose story was the subject of a Hollywood film released this summer. “Moe...

WINNIPEG - The federal government has taken another step in transferring control over Indigenous health programs to First Nations. Indigenous Services Minister Jane Philpott announced $68 million over...

ST. CATHARINES, Ont. - Police searched into the night for two armed men following a daytime shooting in St. Catharines, Ont., on Thursday that sent three people to hospital, two of them in life-threat...

CALGARY - James Neal knows a thing or two about long playoff runs. Mark Giordano hopes that knowledge rubs off on the Calgary Flames. Calgary’s captain intends to pick Neal’s brain about g...

MAYNOOTH, Ireland - Canada is just back of the leaders after an excellent second round at the world amateur men’s team golf championships. Garrett Rank of Elmira, Ont., Joey Savoie of La Prairie...

OTTAWA - While the Ottawa Senators have produced their fair share of negative headlines in recent months, there is a sense of excitement when it comes to Brady Tkachuk. The Senators’ top pick (f...

COQUITLAM, B.C. - A man with schizophrenia accused of fatally stabbing a 13-year-old girl inside a high school in Abbotsford, B.C., says he’s eager to face the charges against him but he still h...

MONTREAL - Canadian astronaut David Saint-Jacques says the biggest part of his preparation as he gets ready to leave Dec. 20 for a visit to the International Space Station is making sure his family is...

TORONTO - Just hours before the premiere of “The Predator” at the Toronto International Film Festival, Twentieth Century Fox said it removed a scene from the film with actor Steven Wilder ...