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PHILADELPHIA - In a nearly empty Philadelphia courtroom in June 2015, a lawyer for Bill Cosby implored a federal judge to keep the comedian's testimony in an old sexual battery lawsuit under wraps. It...

LOS ANGELES - The Black national anthem was born more than a century ago, but the popular hymn within the African American community called "Lift Every Voice and Sing" has resurrected a beacon of hope...

There's clearly a huge difference between an English Premier League match and one played between friends on a local field. But when you take away 54,000 fans who would otherwise be singing and cheerin...

LADYSMITH - The dream of an expansive and beautiful arts and heritage hub along Ladysmith's waterfront is nearly secure. More than $3 million for the project was announced on Friday, funded through th...

ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia - Ethiopian police were patrolling the country's troubled Oromia region and the capital, Addis Ababa, on Sunday, following a week of unrest in which 166 people were killed and mo...

OTTAWA - The doctor overseeing Canada's COVID-19 antibody research says by mid-July we should get the first glimpse of how many Canadians might have already contracted the novel coronavirus. Dr. Timot...

ZAGREB, Croatia - Amid a spike of new coronavirus cases, voters in Croatia cast ballots on Sunday in what is expected be a close parliamentary race that could push the latest European Union member sta...

Baltimore protesters pulled down a statue of Christopher Columbus and threw it into the city's Inner Harbor on Saturday night. Demonstrators used ropes to topple the monument near the Little Italy nei...

Whether it was his playful "How Bored Are You?" social-media posts, his online talent show, or his workout videos, Raptors forward Serge Ibaka was one of Toronto's most visible athletes in the early d...

OTTAWA - Migrant workers and other non-permanent residents - many of whom have been working on the front lines of the COVID-19 pandemic - took to the streets in cities across Canada on ...