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NEW YORK - It was cocktail hour at the Met Gala, the most glittery and exclusive event on the New York social calendar, and celebrity guests were thronging around the imposing Temple of Dendur at the ...

TOKYO - Japanese drugmaker Takeda has agreed to buy Shire for 46 billion pounds ($62.4 billion) in cash and stock, one of the biggest deals ever in the pharmaceuticals industry, the companies said Tue...

Six stories in the news for Tuesday, May 8 --- N.B. FLOODING STARTING TO STABILIZE Floodwaters are expected to stabilize in New Brunswick although water levels remain high. Geoffrey Downey of the Emer...

CLEVELAND - LeBron James spent four games up-close and personal with OG Anunoby and came away impressed with the Raptors rookie. “I think he has a bright future. His future is now, actually,R...

VICTORIA - A Victoria event venue has hired a so-called consent captain to help prevent sexual harassment and assaults as bars and nightclubs across Canada grapple with how to respond to the #MeToo mo...

OTTAWA - Nearly 100,000 Canadians signed up to become organ donors after learning a victim of last month’s Humboldt Broncos bus crash had signed a donor card just weeks before the crash - and wo...

It’s 11,097 kilometres from Doha, Qatar, to Humboldt, Sask., but the fatal crash involving a bus carrying junior hockey players hit close to home for Dale Gilbert and her husband Scott. “I...

MEADOW LAKE, Sask. - A judge on Tuesday sentenced a young man who shot up a school and a home in northern Saskatchewan to life in prison and bemoaned a lack of support for survivors. The shooter, who ...

BERLIN - Hundreds of police have raided premises in four German states as part of a probe into a suspected people smuggling ring. Federal police say the gang is suspected of helping mostly Moldovans e...

WINNIPEG - P.K. Subban may have guaranteed a win in Game 6, but it was Filip Forsberg and Pekka Rinne who made it happen. Forsberg scored two highlight-reel goals and Rinne had a 34-save shutout as th...