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Five stories in the news for Thursday, Aug. 22 --- SECURITY TIGHTENED FOR POMPEO VISIT Security around Parliament Hill has been tightened in anticipation of today's visit to Ottawa by U.S. S...

OTTAWA - U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo slammed any suggestion that two Canadians being detained in China are on par with the arrest here of a Chinese tech executive at t...

HONG KONG - Chinese police said Saturday they released an employee at the British Consulate in Hong Kong as the city's pro-democracy protesters took to the streets again, this time to call for the rem...

ANAHEIM, Calif. - Robert Downey Jr. is recalling a wild Disneyland ride from his younger days. The "Iron Man" star, among those honoured Friday as Disney Legends, says his first visit to the Southern ...

LOS ANGELES - Quentin Tarantino is going to be telling a whole new brand of "Once upon a time" tale - the bedtime-story kind. The "Once Upon a Time... In Hollywood" director is about to become a fathe...

AURORA, Ont. - After Brooke Henderson birdied No. 15 she stood back from the green to check her notes and watch groupmates Stacy Lewis and Min-Jee Lee finish the hole. A small voice behind her called ...

WINSTON SALEM, N.C. - Canada's Denis Shapovalov is off to the semifinals of the Winston-Salem Open. The second-seeded Shapovalov, from Richmond Hill, Ont., downed Russia's Andrey Rublev 6-3, 7-6 (4) i...

LOS ANGELES - Country band Alabama says it is postponing the remainder of its 50th anniversary tour as lead singer Randy Owen battles health complications. The group announced Wednesday that the 69-ye...

OLYMPIA, Wash. - Washington Gov. Jay Inslee, who has ended his climate change-focused 2020 presidential bid, announced Thursday that he'll seek a third term as governor. Inslee sent the email detailin...

SEOUL, Korea, Republic Of - North Korea fired two suspected short-range ballistic missiles off its east coast on Saturday for the seventh time in a month, South Korea's military said, a day after it t...