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HONG KONG - Police in Hong Kong fought with protesters on Sunday as they broke up a demonstration by thousands of people demanding the resignation of the semi-autonomous Chinese territory's chief exec...

NEW YORK - A Manhattan power outage that temporarily turned off the bright lights of the big city only lasted for a few hours, but left plenty of lingering questions and calls for investigations on Su...

NEW ORLEANS - Tropical Depression Barry dumped rain as it slowly swept inland through Gulf Coast states Sunday, sparing New Orleans from a direct hit but stoking fears elsewhere of flooding, tornadoes...

LOS ANGELES - "Game of Thrones" is seeking to claim the Emmy Awards version of the Iron Throne one last time. When the Emmy nominations are released Tuesday, the HBO fantasy saga could be in the runni...

Five stories in the news for Tuesday, July 16 --- IRREGULAR MIGRANT NUMBERS DOWN THIS YEAR: DATA Newly published government figures show fewer asylum-seekers crossing "irregularly"...

OTTAWA - The federal government is promising major announcements today at shipyards in Quebec and Victoria. Cabinet minister Jean-Yves Duclos is to be at Davie Shipyard outside Quebec City a...

PHILADELPHIA - Lawyers for Philadelphia rapper Meek Mill will ask an appeals court Tuesday to overturn a 2008 drug and gun conviction that's kept the Philadelphia rapper on probation for a decade. The...

VANCOUVER - Not good enough! Doneil Henry didn't mince his words after the Vancouver Whitecaps fell 3-0 to Sporting Kansas City Saturday night for their third consecutive Major League Soccer loss. "To...

CHICAGO - R&B singer R. Kelly is expected to appear in a Chicago federal courtroom on charges that he recruited girls and women to have illegal sex with him and then covered up the crimes by payin...

VANCOUVER - A proposed high-speed rail link connecting Vancouver, Seattle and Portland would cut the travel time between each city to under an hour and dramatically boost the economy of the ...