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TOKYO - The works receiving one of Japan's most coveted literary awards, the Naoki Prize, have something new in common: For the first time in 85 years, all six of the nominated authors are women. Japa...

CHICAGO - An Illinois judge seems close to appointing a special prosecutor to look into why state prosecutors abruptly dropped charges against actor Jussie Smollett accusing him of staging a racist, a...

GENEVA - Washington Capitals centre Evgeny Kuznetsov tested positive for cocaine at the world championship and has been banned from the Russian national team for four years. Kuznetsov failed a doping ...

After almost a full week of training camp the Grande Prairie Storm will get their first test in exhibition action Friday night as they begin a three-game road trip in British Columbia.The Storm will b...

BEIJING - China on Friday announced tariff hikes on $75 billion of U.S. products in retaliation for President Donald Trump's latest planned increase, deepening a conflict over trade and technology tha...

OTTAWA - Cries of a coverup competed with claims of pre-election, hyper-partisan excess Wednesday after Liberal MPs blocked an opposition attempt to hold hearings on ethics co...

WARSAW, Poland - A Polish emergency official on Friday likened the deadly lightning storm over the Tatra Mountains that killed at least five people and injured more than 150 to a terror attack in term...

RALEIGH, N.C. - A federal jury sided Wednesday with novelist Nicholas Sparks and the private Christian school he founded in his North Carolina hometown, dismissing claims by the school's former headma...

WASHINGTON - David H. Koch, executive vice-president of Koch Industries Inc. and a long-time philanthropist, has died at age 79. His older brother, Charles, announced the death on Friday, saying, "It ...

The County Brewers are the 2019 Wheatbelt Baseball League Champions.They knocked off the Rycroft Rage Thursday night 8-2 in Game 5 of their best of five series.With the game scoreless going into the b...