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MAKUHARI, Japan - Larissa Franklin belted two home runs as Canada opened the playoffs with an 8-1 win over the Netherlands on Friday at the women’s world softball championship. With the win, Can...

LAVAL, Que. - A Montreal-area man has been arraigned on a charge of aggravated assault in connection with a sucker-punch attack outside a daycare last month that was captured on surveillance video. In...

HARARE, Zimbabwe - Zimbabwe’s main opposition party on Friday filed a legal challenge to the results of the country’s first election without Robert Mugabe on the ballot, alleging “gr...

TOKYO - Kylie Masse is back on top of the podium at a major international event. The swimmer from Windsor, Ont., captured gold in the 100-metre backstroke on Friday at the Pan Pacific Championships, h...

WASHINGTON - A federal appeals court has ruled that the Trump administration endangered public health by keeping a widely used pesticide on the market despite extensive scientific evidence that even t...

ALEXANDRIA, Va. - A New York bank executive testified Friday that Paul Manafort received more than $16 million in loans after the bank’s chairman expressed interest in joining Donald Trump’...

WATERVILLE, Minn. - For all the talk of a blue wave sweeping Democrats back into the House majority this fall, their efforts could be thwarted in one of the nation’s bluest states. Voters in the...

LOS ANGELES - Kanye West was silent when it comes to whether he thinks President Donald Trump cares for black people. West appeared on ABC’s “Jimmy Kimmel Live ” on Thursday. West di...

MAYONG, India - The rice farmer doesn’t know how it happened. Abdul Mannan just knows a mistake was made somewhere. But what can you say when the authorities suddenly insist one of your five chi...

MOSCOW - Russia’s prime minister sternly warned the United States against ramping up sanctions, saying Friday that Moscow would retaliate with economic, political and unspecified “other...