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WASHINGTON - The District of Columbia is giving residents a new gender option on their driver’s licenses or identification cards issued by the city’s department of motor vehicles. On Tuesd...

TOKYO - A 14-year-old boy is taking his country by storm with a record-breaking start to his pro career in the Japanese version of chess. Ninth-grader Sota Fujii broke a 30-year-old record this week w...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska - Leonard Larkins and nearly 4,000 other segregated black soldiers helped build a highway across Alaska and Canada during World War II, a contribution largely ignored for decades but...

SAO PAULO - Embattled in Congress and unpopular on the streets, President Michel Temer has now been charged with corruption by Brazil’s top prosecutor in the wake of a plea bargain signed by exe...

TORONTO - A proposal to bury tonnes of radioactive waste in a bunker near Lake Huron has moved a step toward a decision on whether the multibillion-dollar project can proceed. Federal authorities say ...

HUNTSVILLE, Ala. - A security scare that shut down an Alabama Army base and sparked fears of a shooting was a false alarm, the military said Wednesday. A statement released by Redstone Arsenal said so...

COLUMBIA, S.C. - One by one, Denver Simmons recalled, he and his partner lured inmates into his cell. William Scruggs was promised cookies in exchange for doing some laundry; Jimmy Ham thought he was ...

LETHBRIDGE, Alta. - Canadian rugby coach Ric Suggitt, who guided national teams on both side of the border, has died. He was 58. Suggitt, head coach of the women’s team at the University of Leth...

Toronto quarterback Ricky Ray and slotback S.J. Green and Montreal defensive back Jonathon Mincy have been named the top performers for Week 1 of the CFL season. Ray completed 32 passes for 506 yards ...

OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau insisted Tuesday that his Liberal government has been keeping its promise to be fiscally responsible and blamed the previous Conservative administration for bein...