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Four stories in the news for Thursday, Sept. 5 --- CANADA'S BIANCA ANDREESCU HEADS TO U.S. OPEN SEMIFINALS Bianca Andreescu became the first teenager to reach the U.S. Open semifinals in a d...

VICTORIA - One of Canada's oldest fall fairs is putting a new twist on its annual showcase of local livestock, produce and fruit by adding a new category for best home-grown marijuana. The C...

KABUL - A large explosion has rocked the Afghan capital and smoke is rising from a part of eastern Kabul, near a neighbourhood housing the U.S. Embassy and other diplomatic missions. Firdaus Faramarz,...

SANTA BARBARA, Calif. - Just hours after a fire raced through a scuba diving boat, a memorial started sprouting up to commemorate the lives of 34 people who died trapped below decks. Days later, it ha...

NEW YORK - As she has done for most of the 2019 tennis season, Bianca Andreescu kept winning Monday night at the U.S. Open. Make that early Tuesday morning, when the 19-year-old from Mississauga, Ont....

KABUL - The Taliban on Tuesday defended their suicide bombing against an international compound in the Afghan capital that killed at least 16 people and wounded 119, almost all local civilians, just h...

BEIJING - U.S. and Chinese envoys will meet in early October for talks aimed at ending a tariff war, later than initially planned, China's Commerce Ministry announced Thursday. The announcement came a...

NHL players have yet to decide whether to terminate the current collective bargaining agreement with less than two weeks before the deadline to do so. Roughly 50 players met Wednesday night in Chicago...

WASHINGTON - The Trump administration turned its deregulatory focus Wednesday to light bulbs, scrapping a rule that would have phased out less energy efficient incandescent bulbs. The move slows a yea...

Big beer is still duking it out over corn syrup. A federal judge on Wednesday ordered Anheuser-Busch to stop using Bud Light packaging that implies rival brews made by MillerCoors contain corn syrup. ...