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LOS ANGELES - Casting director David Rubin has been elected the new president of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, the organization that bestows the Oscars. He is the first casting dire...

BEIJING - China said Wednesday that it was banning Chinese movies and actors from participating in Taiwan's Golden Horse Awards, one of the Asian film industry's most prestigious honours, as Beijing r...

LIMA, Peru - Sage Watson won gold in the women's 400-metre hurdles Thursday as Canada continued to pile up track and field hardware at the 2019 Pan American Games. Watson, from Medicine Hat, Alta., ra...

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. - It was a single for almost anyone else. It was a double for Kevin Kiermaier, whose speed in the bottom of 10th inning produced the run to cap Tampa Bay's big comeback. Kiermaier...

TORONTO - Gio Urshela hit a pair of home runs as the New York Yankees extended their winning streak to a season-high nine games as they defeated the Toronto Blue Jays 12-6 on Thursday. Mike Tauchman a...

FLINT, Mich. - An attorney for former Michigan State basketball star Mateen Cleaves says during his trial on sexual assault charges that consensual sex between two adults is not a crime. Defence attor...

BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. - The next chapter of FX's "American Crime Story" will dramatize Bill Clinton's impeachment with a focus on Monica Lewinsky, Linda Tripp and other women central to the scandal. T...

LIMA, Peru - Sara Groenewegen has limited memory from her unexpected health ordeal just over a year ago. It's probably for the best as the jarring details are hard to get her head around.  T...

BISMARCK, N.D. - Two environmental groups who say North Dakota regulators should have intervened in the location of an oil refinery near the state's top tourist attraction, Theodore Roosevelt National...

A grandmother is calling for more drop-off boxes after her 11-year-old grandson was poked by a needle."It happened July 31 at about 7 p.m.," said Lac La Ronge Indian Band member Kathy Lavallee. "He wa...