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EL PASO, Texas - El Paso officials opened a grief centre on Tuesday to help people cope with last weekend's mass shooting at a Walmart, in which 22 people, nearly all with Latino last names, were kill...

DAYTON, Ohio - Facing pressure to take action after the latest mass shooting in the U.S., Ohio's Republican governor urged the GOP-led Legislature on Tuesday to pass laws requiring background checks f...

NEW YORK - Cyntoia Brown, whose imprisonment for murder when she was 16 inspired a public campaign for her freedom, has a book out this fall. Brown's "Free Cyntoia" will be published Oct. 15, Atria Bo...

Toronto Argonauts quarterback McLeod Bethel-Thompson, Ottawa Redblacks returner DeVonte Dedmon and Saskatchewan Roughriders QB Cody Fajardo are the CFL's top performers of the week for Week 8. Bethel-...

TORONTO - Seven-time Grand Slam champion Venus Williams has made an early exit at the Rogers Cup. The 39-year-old American lost 6-4, 6-2 to Spain's Carla Suarez Navarro in the first match on cent...

MEDICINE HAT, AB - The Medicine Hat Exhibition & Stampede saw a decrease in year over year attendance for portions of this year's event, according to numbers released by the organization on Tuesda...

VIENNA - Canada's beach volleyball champions Melissa Humana-Paredes and Sarah Pavan have clinched gold and won US$40,000 at the A1 Major Vienna in Austria. Volleyball Canada says the 2019 world c...

HALIFAX - For the second year in a row, a central Nova Scotia golf course is home to an unusual hazard after a resident snapping turtle laid eggs in a bunker. Debert Golf Course manager...

GILLAM, Man. - RCMP searching for two British Columbia murder suspects say they spotted a damaged aluminum boat on the shore of the Nelson River in northern Manitoba. Police say it's the reason t...

TORONTO - Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland and her British counterpart say they're both concerned about two Canadians detained in China. Freeland says Britain has taken a strong and public s...