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Costume Designers Guild honours Ruth E. Carter, Glenn Close
BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. - Ruth E. Carter may be receiving Oscar recognition for her costume designer work on "Black Panther," but she told a packed room at the Costume Guild Awards on Tuesday night that...
Feb 20, 2019
Italy becomes ninth international football league to join forces with CFL
TORONTO - Add Italy to the growing list of international football federations working with the CFL. The Federazione Italiana di American Football (FIDAF) and the CFL announced they will team up in a p...
Feb 20, 2019
Nigeria's female candidates seek victory despite harassment
KANO, Nigeria - Nervous ahead of Nigeria's delayed election, a group of young women picked up their cellphones and wished each other well. "Honestly I'm so tensed and scared," one typed. "I feel like ...
Feb 20, 2019
In France, the Force is strong with lightsaber dueling
BEAUMONT-SUR-OISE, France - Master Yoda, dust off his French, he must. It's now easier than ever in France to act out "Star Wars" fantasies, because its fencing federation has borrowed from a galaxy f...
Feb 20, 2019
Border wall a complex issue for 2020 prospect Beto O'Rourke
EL PASO, Texas - When President Donald Trump visited Beto O'Rourke's hometown to argue that walling off the southern border would make the U.S. safer, the former Democratic congressman and possible 20...
Feb 20, 2019
Elias (The Spartan) Theodorou leads Canadian content on May UFC Ottawa card
The UFC is returning to Ottawa for a May 4 show at the Canadian Tire Centre. The main event has yet to be announced but the UFC has already lined up seven Canadians, including 14th-ranked middleweight...
Feb 20, 2019
Britain presses EU for Brexit compromise as clock ticks
BERLIN - Britain's foreign secretary said that securing an orderly Brexit is "of paramount importance" as he visited Germany on Wednesday, and insisted the UK can leave the European Union on March 29 ...
Feb 20, 2019
Woman says man told her to kill fiancee before fatal beating
DENVER - After urging a woman he was having an affair with for months to kill his fiancee, investigators say a Colorado man did it himself on Thanksgiving Day, bludgeoning her to death with a baseball...
Feb 20, 2019
Northern Red Sea coral reefs may survive a hot, grim future
EILAT, Israel - As the outlook for coral reefs across a warming planet grows grimmer, scientists in Israel have discovered a rare glimmer of hope: The corals of the northern Red Sea may survive, and e...
Feb 20, 2019
US steps up winter-warfare training as global threat shifts
MARINE MOUNTAIN WARFARE TRAINING CENTER, Calif. - Hunkered down behind a wall of snow, two U.S. Marines melt slush to make drinking water after spending the night digging out a defensive position high...
Feb 20, 2019