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Dick's Sporting Goods to buy struggling shoe chain Foot Locker for $2.4 billion
Dick's Sporting Goods is buying the struggling footwear chain Foot Locker for about $2.4 billion, the second buyout of a major footwear company in as many weeks as business leaders struggle with uncer...
May 15, 2025
Naples will host the next America's Cup in 2027
ROME (AP) - The next America's Cup will be held off Naples, Italy, in 2027, holder Team New Zealand announced on Thursday. It will be the 38th edition of the world's most famous regatta and the first ...
May 15, 2025
Former hockey player continues testifying at ex-teammates' sex assault trial
A former member of Canada's world junior hockey team is expected to continue testifying today at the sexual assault trial of five of his ex-teammates. Tyler Steenbergen began testifying by videoconfer...
May 15, 2025
Eleven killed in festival attack included families, artist, visitor from Philippines
Eleven people were killed at the Lapu Lapu Day festival in Vancouver on April 26, when an SUV drove through a crowd at high speed. Here is what we know about the victims, whose identities have been co...
May 15, 2025
Family in B.C. festival tragedy celebrates small victories on long road to recovery
VANCOUVER - Even the smallest victories are being celebrated by Roland Nulada and his family, as he recovers from devastating injuries suffered in the Lapu Lapu festival attack in Vancouver. On Monday...
May 15, 2025
54 people killed in overnight airstrikes on southern Gaza city, hospital says
KHAN YOUNIS, Gaza Strip (AP) - A hospital in southern Gaza says 54 people have been killed in overnight airstrikes on the city of Khan Younis. An Associated Press cameraman in Khan Younis counted 10 a...
May 14, 2025
Oilers beat Golden Knights 1-0 in OT in Game 5 to reach Western Conference finals
LAS VEGAS (AP) - The Oilers are about a lot more than Connor McDavid and Leon Draisaitl, something the Golden Knights learned the hard way. For Edmonton to get through to the Western Conference final ...
May 14, 2025
Oilers beat Golden Knights 1-0 in OT in Game 5 to reach Western Conference finals
LAS VEGAS (AP) - Kasperi Kapanen scored on a scramble in front of the net at 7:14 of overtime, and the Edmonton Oilers beat the Vegas Golden Knights 1-0 in Game 5 on Wednesday night to advance to the ...
May 14, 2025
Kapanen's OT winner lifts Oilers past Golden Knights to advance to conference finals
LAS VEGAS - The Edmonton Oilers are moving on to the Western Conference finals once again. Kasperi Kapanen scored the winner at 7:19 of overtime as Edmonton defeated the Vegas Golden Knights 1-0 on We...
May 14, 2025
New Zealand's Parliament will debate suspending Māori lawmakers who performed a protest haka
WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) - A New Zealand parliamentary committee has recommended the unprecedented suspensions of three Mori lawmakers for performing a protest haka in the debating chamber last ye...
May 14, 2025