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NEW YORK - The publisher of Sherman Alexie, who faces multiple allegations of sexual harassment, is postponing the paperback of his latest book. Hachette Book Group had planned to release the paperbac...

LEESBURG, Va. - A judge is scheduled to hear arguments on a request from actress Rose McGowan to dismiss a charge of cocaine possession she faces in Virginia. McGowan’s lawyers have suggested in...

SYDNEY, Australia - Chinese dissident artist Ai Weiwei said Monday that it doesn’t matter whether or not China has a change in leadership, the culture and the system will always remain the same....

DUBLIN - Country music star Tim McGraw collapsed on stage during a performance in Ireland. Rolling Stone magazine reports McGraw collapsed while performing Sunday night in Dublin. McGraw’s wife,...

LONDON - Russia is “highly likely” to blame for poisoning a former spy and his daughter with a military-grade nerve agent, British Prime Minister Theresa May said Monday, demanding that Mo...

SASKATOON - A doctor is commending Saskatoon police for their response to a number of suspected overdoses on the weekend that resulted in two deaths from cocaine allegedly laced with fentanyl. Police ...

HALIFAX - A Halifax-based sailor has been handed a 22-month jail sentence and has been dismissed from the navy after a military judge found him guilty of sexually assaulting a subordinate. In a verdic...

JUNEAU, Alaska - Bad weather in southwestern Alaska has delayed the air search for a British Columbia man and his climbing companion near Juneau. Twenty-four-year old Marc-Andre Leclerc of Squamish an...

MILAN - Former Italian Premier Matteo Renzi formally resigned Monday as leader of the Democratic Party following its crushing election defeat, with the interim leader maintaining the party line of ref...

BRATISLAVA, Slovakia - A political crisis in Slovakia set off by the slayings of an investigative journalist and his fiancee deepened Monday when a junior party in the governing coalition called for r...