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Court reverses sole conviction in San Francisco pier killing
SAN FRANCISCO - A California state appeals court on Friday threw out the sole conviction against an immigrant who fatally shot a young woman on the San Francisco waterfront in 2015. Jose Inez Garcia-Z...
Aug 30, 2019
After US Open win, Federer bristles at idea he chose timing
NEW YORK - There was no slow start to this U.S. Open outing for Roger Federer, who bristled at the suggestion that he might have played a role in some favourable scheduling. After dropping the opening...
Aug 30, 2019
Vancouver Whitecaps remain resilient despite tough travel schedule
VANCOUVER - After a rough week-long road trip, coach Marc Dos Santos says his Vancouver Whitecaps are returning home to what feels like a bit of a rude dinner guest. While the 'Caps (6-13-9) drop...
Aug 30, 2019
Appeals court reinstates lawsuit in SC church shooting case
RICHMOND, Va. - A lawsuit over a faulty background check that allowed a South Carolina man to buy the gun he used to kill nine people in a racist attack at a Charleston church was reinstated Friday by...
Aug 30, 2019
Liberals drop candidate in Montreal riding over comments described as anti-Semitic
OTTAWA - The Liberal Party of Canada has dropped a Montreal-area candidate over past statements he made that were described as anti-Semitic by a Jewish advocacy group. Hassan Guillet will no...
Aug 30, 2019
MSNBC's O'Donnell retracts Trump story
NEW YORK - MSNBC's Lawrence O'Donnell on Wednesday retracted his story about supposed Russian ties to President Donald Trump's finances and apologized for reporting it - just as Trump's lawyer demande...
Aug 30, 2019
Federer ends slow starts, rolls into fourth round at US Open
NEW YORK - Roger Federer didn't change much, outside of where his team was sitting. He certainly wasn't going to overreact to a couple of poor starts after all these years and do anything different wi...
Aug 30, 2019
Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand ends once-promising presidential bid
WASHINGTON - Democrat Kirsten Gillibrand dropped out of the presidential race Wednesday, abruptly ending a campaign that once looked poised to ride strong #MeToo credentials to formidability but inste...
Aug 30, 2019
Freeland says she brought up case of imprisoned Canadian, with Cuban foreign minister
MONTREAL - Canada's Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland said Friday she raised the case of Benjamin Tomlin, a Canadian citizen imprisoned in Cuba, during a meeting with her Cuban counterpart ea...
Aug 30, 2019
NHL informs union it won't terminate labour deal
Citing what it called momentum from a sustained period of labour peace, the NHL said Friday it has informed the NHL Players' Association it will not use its option to terminate the existing collective...
Aug 30, 2019