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Abortion-rights group sues Mississippi over 'heartbeat' law
JACKSON, Miss. - An abortion-rights group is asking a federal judge to block a Mississippi law that will ban most abortions once a fetal heartbeat can be detected, about six weeks into pregnancy. The ...
Mar 28, 2019
Toronto Blue Jays place both Tellez, Guerra on opening-day roster
TORONTO - First baseman Rowdy Tellez and right-hander Javy Guerra have made the Toronto Blue Jays' opening-day roster. Toronto set its 25-man roster Thursday morning, hours before its season open...
Mar 28, 2019
Kawhi Leonard out, OG Anunoby questionable for Raptors in New York
NEW YORK - Toronto Raptors star Kawhi Leonard (load management) will sit out Thursday night in New York against the Knicks while fellow forward OG Anunoby (concussion-like symptoms) is quest...
Mar 28, 2019
Wednesday's Scoreboard
Wednesday's GamesWHLPA 4, Red Deer 1PA wins series 4-0Saskatoon 4, Moose Jaw 3 (OT)SAS wins series 4-0SMAAAHLHounds 3, Tisdale 2Hounds lead series 2-0 NHLPhiladelphia 5 Toronto 4 (SO)Boston 6 N.Y. Ran...
Mar 28, 2019
In The Rings: Brier/Scotties format still a talking point two years in
Two years into the latest competition format change at the Canadian men's and women's curling championships, the subject remains as polarizing as ever. "There's no right or wrong," said reigning ...
Mar 28, 2019
B.C. human rights tribunal rules anti-transgender poster campaign discriminatory
VANCOUVER - A Vancouver trans woman who made a human rights complaint about a poster campaign that called transgenderism an "impossibility" has won her case. Morgane Oger ran as an NDP candidate ...
Mar 28, 2019
Algerian army chief calls for president to be declared unfit
ALGIERS, Algeria - Algeria's powerful army chief called Tuesday for starting the constitutional process to have President Abdelaziz Bouteflika declared unfit for office, possibly paving the way for th...
Mar 28, 2019
Backlash, questions follow dismissal of Jussie Smollett case
CHICAGO - Prosecutors still insist Jussie Smollett faked a racist, anti-gay attack on himself in the hopes that the attention would advance his acting career. The "Empire" star still says he was assau...
Mar 28, 2019
Supreme Court stresses jail should be 'the exception' for people awaiting trial
OTTAWA - The Supreme Court of Canada says making an accused person wait in jail before trial should be the exception, not the rule, in a decision that affirms a key legal safeguard inte...
Mar 28, 2019
Man awarded $80M in lawsuit claiming Roundup causes cancer
SAN FRANCISCO - A U.S. jury on Wednesday awarded more than $80 million in damages to a California man who blamed Roundup weed killer for his cancer, in a case that his attorneys say could help determi...
Mar 28, 2019 Edwin Hardeman, right, speaks next to attorney Aimee Wagstaff at a news conference in San Francisco, Wednesday, March 27, 2019. A U.S. jury has awarded $80 million in damages to Hardeman in a high-stakes trial over his claim that Roundup weed killer caused his cancer. (Associated Press/Jeff Chiu)