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It was bump day for the Indy 500. The Indianapolis 500 is now a summer event. The Monster Mile could be set for a monster-sized NASCAR weekend spectacle of racing. And a supersized shakeup of the sche...

BARCELONA, Spain - Barcelona will reduce the salaries of its players amid the coronavirus outbreak. The Spanish club said late Thursday that its executive board decided to temporarily suspend player c...

WASHINGTON - Americans increased their spending by a modest amount in February but the expectation is that spending will be hit hard in coming months reflecting the shutdown of the American economy by...

NEW YORK - Stocks are opening lower on Wall Street as the market gives back some of the gains it piled up over the past three days. Major indexes are down about 3% in early trading Friday. The S&P...

OTTAWA - The Bank of Canada is cutting its key interest target by half a percentage point to 0.25 per cent in an unscheduled rate announcement. In a statement on its website, the centra...

The latest news on the COVID-19 global pandemic (all times Eastern):   8:40 a.m. Hamilton police say they've charged a teenage fast-food employee after she allegedly faked a doctor...

LONDON - British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has tested positive for the new coronavirus. Johnson's office says he was tested after showing mild symptoms, Downing St. says Johnson is self-isolating a...

Forestry companies have had to make adjustments during the COVID-19 pandemic.Norbord says in a release that as of Monday, it will be reducing production at all of its Oriented Strand Board plants acro...

Our Member of Parliament says concerns remain over a $102-billion pandemic help package the federal government announced earlier this week.Grande Prairie-Mackenzie MP Chris Warkentin says those includ...

Fear of the unknown was holding Markus Thormeyer back in the pool. When the Canadian swimmer told teammates he was gay, the walls he'd built up came down and Thormeyer felt liberated to swim fast...