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TOKYO - Snoopy may be joining Sony. Japanese electronics maker Sony Corp. said Monday that it is buying a stake in Peanuts Holdings, the company behind Snoopy and Charlie Brown. Sony Music Entertainme...

BERLIN - Germany has appealed to the Russian government to let in a journalist who exposed systematic doping in Russian athletics and was denied entry to Russia to report on the upcoming World Cup. A ...

JERUSALEM - Israeli soccer club Beitar Jerusalem says it wants to add “Trump” to the team’s name. The club’s social media accounts say the team “from now on will be calle...

WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court on Monday gave its go-ahead for states to allow gambling on sports across the nation, striking down a federal law that barred betting on football, basketball, baseball a...

HALIFAX - A group of Canadian professors is speaking out against a Halifax university’s handling of a residential-schools course imbroglio, saying the race or ethnicity of a professor should not...

AIRDRIE- The RCMP's General Investigative Section has released more details on a shooting in Airdrie on Saturday night. Mounties say that the intended victim in the shooting was targeted and there is ...

EDMONTON- A massive firefighting effort was launched on the weekend to battle wildfires in two areas north and northeast of Edmonton. The blazes, in Westlock County and one on either side of Bruderhei...

CALGARY- A motorcycle rider in Calgary has died after police say it appears a car turned into his path. Police say the 67-year-old man was riding a Harley-Davidson in the city’s northeast on Sat...

CANNES, France - The leaders of the Cannes Film Festival have signed a gender equality pledge promising to make their selection process more transparent and to push their executive boards toward gende...

The Drayton Valley RCMP detachment continued to deal with a spike in property crimes in April, according to newly released statistics. Theft under $5,000, assaults and break and enters continued their...