NEW YORK - When Cheslie Kryst won the Miss USA crown, it marked more than a personal triumph: It meant that for the first time, three black women are the reigning Miss USA, Miss Teen USA and Miss Amer...
May 03, 2019
Meghan Duggan need only look around sports to get excited about what an NHL-run women's hockey league might look like. The NBA did it with the WNBA. Soccer leagues in Europe and the U.S. have done it....
May 03, 2019
ERIE, Pa. - Family members say a Pennsylvania couple who had been married for almost 45 years died within minutes of each other. Clair "Cos" Vance had made daily visits to a care centre where his 70-y...
May 03, 2019
WASHINGTON - U.S. employers added a robust 263,000 jobs in April, suggesting that businesses have shrugged off earlier concerns that the economy might slow this year and now anticipate strong customer...
May 03, 2019
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. - More Florida classroom teachers could carry guns in school under a bill passed Wednesday by state lawmakers, the latest response to last year's mass shooting at a Parkland high sch...
May 03, 2019
DOHA, Qatar - Caster Semenya has easily won the 800 metres at a Diamond League meet, her first race since losing a high-profile court case against track and field's governing body. The Olympic champio...
May 03, 2019
MINNEAPOLIS - The city of Minneapolis will pay $20 million to the family of an unarmed woman fatally shot by a police officer when she approached his squad car after calling 911 to report a possible c...
May 03, 2019
LONDON - British Prime Minister Theresa May summarily fired Defence Secretary Gavin Williamson Wednesday after an investigation into leaks from a secret government meeting about the Chinese telecommun...
May 03, 2019
WASHINGTON - The Trump administration on Wednesday asked Congress for an additional $4.5 billion in emergency funds for the U.S.-Mexico border as it grapples with a surge of Central American migrant f...
May 03, 2019
GENEVA - Ebola deaths in Congo's latest outbreak are expected to exceed 1,000 later on Friday, the World Health Organization announced, as attacks continue on health workers trying to contain the viru...
May 03, 2019