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Astros reach World Series, top Yankees 4-0 in Game 7 of ALCS
Former U.S. presidents put aside politics, call for unity at hurricane aid concert
(L-R) Former US Presidents, Jimmy Carter, George H. W. Bush, George W. Bush, Barack Obama and Bill Clinton attend the Hurricane Relief concert in College Station, Texas, on October 21, 2017.
Police: Boy, 3, shot by 6-year-old brother in Philadelphia
DeRozan rebounds from flu bug to score 30 points in Raptors' win over 76ers
Toronto Raptors guard DeMar DeRozan (10) shoots over Philadelphia 76ers guard Jerryd Bayless (0) as Raptors centre Jakob Poeltl (42) and 76ers forward Dario Saric (9) look on during first half NBA basketball action in Toronto on Saturday, October 21, 2017. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Frank Gunn
Brassard, Stone each score twice as Senators beat Maple Leafs 6-3
Ottawa Senators centre Derick Brassard (19) celebrates his goal with teammate right wing Mark Stone (61) during second period NHL hockey action against the Toronto Maple Leafs in Ottawa on Saturday, October 21, 2017. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Fred Chartrand
Senators top Maple Leafs as Brassard, Stone notch a pair of goals each
Ottawa Senators center Derick Brassard (19) moves the puck away from Toronto Maple Leafs center Auston Matthews (34) in the first period at Canadian Tire Centre.
DeRozan explodes for 30 as Toronto Raptors blow out Philadelphia 76ers
Toronto Raptors guard DeMar DeRozan (10) drives to the net against Philadelphia 76ers guard Ben Simmons (25) during first half NBA basketball action in Toronto on Saturday, October 21, 2017.
QMJHL Roundup: David Henley scores winner as Foreurs get past Titan
The Latest: Trump tweetstorm praises his accomplishments
Trump pledges to help pay aides’ legal costs amid probes into Russian interference in 2016 election
U.S. President Donald Trump pictured in the Oval Office at the White House on Oct. 19, 2017 in Washington, D.C.
Japan election: How deep is support for Prime Minister Abe?
A voter casts her ballot in a general election at a polling station in Tokyo Sunday, Oct. 22, 2017. Voting has kicked off for Japan’s general election on Sunday that would most likely hand Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s ruling coalition a win, possibly retaining two-thirds in the parliament. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)
U Sports Roundup: Western caps undefeated season with 63-10 win over Ottawa
Directors guild files disciplinary charges against Weinstein
FILE - In this Nov. 25, 2013 file photo, producer Harvey Weinstein attends a screening of "Mandela: Long Walk To Freedom" in New York. Los Angeles police said Thursday Oct. 19, 2017, that it is investigating a possible sexual assault case involving Harvey Weinstein that involves alleged conduct from 2013. The department released few details about the inquiry other than to say it has interviewed a potential victim and its inquiry is ongoing. (Photo by Andy Kropa/Invision/AP, File)
Oprah Winfrey and a host of celebrities attend 'B.C. Miracle Concert'
Oprah Winfrey and David Foster arrive for the David Foster Foundation 30th Anniversary Miracle Gala, in Vancouver, B.C., on Saturday October 21, 2017. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck
Park hikers may have died in 'sympathetic murder-suicide'
Four arrested during duelling Toronto protests
Far-right and ultra-nationalist groups, including the Northern Guard, Proud Boys, and individuals wearing Soldiers of Odin patches, were among those gathered to protest the government's lawsuit settlement with Canadian torture victim Omar Khadr, at Nathan Philips Square in Toronto on Saturday, October 21, 2017. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Christopher Katsarov
Three injured as small plane goes down in Saint-Lazare, west of Montreal
Garret Sparks makes 24 saves as Marlies shut out Checkers for third straight win
B.C. ice rink where 3 people died remains closed due to safety concerns
Fernie Memorial Arena is shown in Fernie, B.C. on Wednesday, Oct.18, 2017. Three people who died after a suspected ammonia leak were doing maintenance work on ice-making equipment at an arena in southeastern British Columbia, says the city's mayor. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Lauren Krugel
Toronto Argos hold on for wild 29-28 home victory over Winnipeg Blue Bombers
Toronto Argonauts running back Martese Jackson (30) runs past Winnipeg Blue Bombers linebacker Kyle Knox (50) during first half CFL football action in Toronto on Saturday, October 21, 2017. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Nathan Denette
Guards kill inmate, wound second at California prison
The Latest: O'Reilly says he was one of many accused at Fox
The Latest: Appeal backed by former presidents raises $31M
A sound check is conducted before a concert in College Station, Texas, Saturday, Oct. 21, 2017. All five living former U.S. presidents will be attending the concert Saturday night, raising money for relief efforts from hurricane devastation in Texas, Florida, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands. (AP Photo/LM Otero)
Toronto Argonauts eke past Winnipeg Blue Bombers on Fajardo’s late touchdown run
Toronto Argonauts running back Martese Jackson (30) runs past Winnipeg Blue Bombers linebacker Kyle Knox (50) during first half CFL football action in Toronto on Saturday, October 21, 2017.
Militia group returns to Charlottesville to defend itself
Foo Fighters postpone Kentucky show at last minute
Parents complain after Ohio school sings cotton picking song
Trump plans to help pay aides' legal costs for Russia probes
Search for crew after barge fire off Texas coast
Wyoming teachers to return after 'shooting at Trump' answer
'Zombie' event staged at Oklahoma Capitol to support taxes
Charles Martin, co-chair of the Oklahoma City chapter of Together Oklahoma, plays a zombie as Together Oklahoma films a short movie in protest of the state's budget situation outside the state Capitol in Oklahoma City, Saturday, Oct. 21, 2017. (Bryan Terry/The Oklahoman via AP)
Second bacterium found in Louisiana mass food poisoning
Fox renewed O'Reilly contract despite knowing of allegations
FILE - This Oct. 1, 2015 file photo shows Bill O'Reilly of the Fox News Channel program "The O'Reilly Factor" in New York. The Fox News Channel says the company knew a news analyst planned to file a sexual harassment lawsuit against O'Reilly when it renewed the popular personality's contract in February 2017. The New York Times reported Saturday, Oct. 21, 2017, the company renewed the TV host's contract after he reached a $32 million settlement with the analyst. (AP Photo/Richard Drew, File)
Racially insensitive video ends school's football season
Trudeau thanks Edmonton police officer in person who was injured in attack
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau speaks during a media availability at the Fairmont Hotel Macdonald in Edmonton, Alta., on Saturday, Oct. 21, 2017. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Codie McLachlan
Simmonds scores winner late in the third to lift Flyers over struggling Oilers
Philadelphia Flyers right wing Wayne Simmonds (17) battles Edmonton Oilers left wing Milan Lucic (27) for the puck during the second period at Wells Fargo Center.
Democratic chairman: Trump 'most dangerous' president ever
FILE - In this March 6, 2017, file photo, Democratic National Committee (DNC) Chairman Tom Perez speaks at a protest against President Donald Trump's new travel ban order in Lafayette Square outside the White House in Washington. Nine months into the Donald Trump era, Democrats are still searching for a standard-bearer and a crisp message to corral widespread opposition to an unpopular president and a Republican-led Congress. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, File)
Mayor Garcetti taking his Los Angeles gig national
FILE - In this July 31, 2017 file photo, Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti speaks during a press conference to make an announcement for the city to host the Olympic Games and Paralympic Games 2028, at Stubhub Center in Carson, outside of Los Angeles, Calif. Garcetti is taking his argument on the road, but he doesn’t want you to assume he steering himself toward the White House. The mayor of the nation’s second largest city has been traveling nationally to raise money and campaign for other Democrats. He’s making the rounds Saturday, Oct. 21 at the Democratic Party’s annual meeting in Las Vegas. (AP Photo/Ringo H.W. Chiu, File)
Honolulu store owners say thieves are targeting cans of Spam
Lawsuit: FBI's negligence led to 1994 mob killing of man
Simmonds' late goal lifts Flyers over struggling Oilers, 2-1
Protesters arrested after clash with police in Philadelphia
Georgia Rep. Price says HIV comments taken out of context
Rangers investigating death at Harpers Ferry national park
Fatal prison riot trial is likely to be long and costly
3 dead in western Mexico prison fight
Trudeau condemns appointment of Mugabe as WHO ambassador
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau speaks during a media availability at the Fairmont Hotel Macdonald in Edmonton, Alta., on Saturday, Oct. 21, 2017. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Codie McLachlan
Correction: Manatees On The Move story
This undated photo provided by Cincinnati Zoo shows from left, manatees, Mathew, Pippen, and Miles. Cincinnati Zoo & Botanical Garden received three manatees this week and the Columbus Zoo and Aquarium one from SeaWorld Orlando. Both zoos are part of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s Manatee Rescue and Rehabilitation Partnership. Pippen, Miles and Mathew in Cincinnati and Goober in Columbus will be part of manatee exhibits while they gain weight in preparation for their return to the wild. (Cincinnati Zoo via AP)
St. Louis college prof grabbed, arrested at board meeting
Park hikers may have died in 'sympathetic murder-suicide'
Raptors' DeRozan good to go against Sixers after suffering flu-like symptoms
Toronto Raptors guard DeMar DeRozan (10) protects the ball from Chicago Bulls guard Jerian Grant (2) during first half NBA basketball action in Toronto on Thursday, October 19, 2017. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Frank Gunn
Canadian ice dancers Gillies, Poirier finish fourth at Rostelecom Cup
Minneapolis approves regulations for short-term rentals
Mexico joins legal fight against Texas sanctuary cities law
City only unbeaten EPL side after Man U lose at Huddersfield
Canadian Olympic ski cross champion Thompson suffers knee injury in training
Marielle Thompson of Canada poses for a portrait ahead of the FIS Ski Cross World Cup 2017 in The Blue Mountains, Ont., Saturday, March 4, 2017. Canadian Olympic ski cross gold medallist Marielle Thompson sustained a serious knee injury while training in Switzerland this week, Alpine Canada said Friday. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Mark Blinch
Trump calls congresswoman ‘wacky’ as spat rolls on following deaths of soldiers in Niger
Rep. Frederica Wilson, D-Fla., talks to reporters, Wednesday, Oct. 18, 2017, in Miami Gardens, Fla. Wilson is standing by her statement that President Donald Trump told Myeshia Johnson, the widow of Sgt. La David Johnson killed in an ambush in Niger, that her husband "knew what he signed up for." In a Wednesday morning tweet, Trump said Wilson's description of the call was "fabricated." (AP Photo/Alan Diaz)
Devils fans help young anthem singer who forgets the words
In gritty city outside Caracas, the story of a socialist win
In this Oct. 18, 2017 photo, commuters wait for a public bus in Guarenas, Venezuela. Designed as a bedroom community for working- and middle-class families, the city is known as the origin of violent 1989 protests known as the “Caracazo,” which spilled into the capital, left more than 300 people dead and destabilized the government. (AP Photo/Fernando Llano)
After Raqqa, Trump says US shifts to 'new phase' in Syria
3 small earthquakes recorded in northern Oklahoma
Cops: $150K in designer merchandise taken in smash-and-grab
Paralympian wins lawsuit over Regina university in swimming accident
Man pleads guilty in gang shooting that killed bystander
One person dead, two others in hospital after head-on crash in Erin
NAACP names new leader for more active future
FILE - In this Aug. 29, 2017, file photo, Derrick Johnson speaks at a National Press Club (NPC) in Washington. The NAACP has decided to hire its interim leader, Derrick Johnson, as its 19th president and CEO. The board of directors of the nation's oldest civil rights organization made the decision on Saturday, Oct. 21, 2017. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)
Gorsuch: Civility doesn't mean suppressing disagreement
Supreme Court Associate Justice Neil Gorsuch and retired Judge Deanell Tacha arrive to discuss civility and professionalism in the practice of law at an American Inns of Court event in Washington, Saturday, Oct. 21, 2017. (AP Photo/Sait Serkan Gurbuz)
The Latest: Czech vote sees big win for populist billionaire
Scandals have made diesel cars scarce. What are our options?
2017 Jaguar F-Pace.
Kentucky prosecutor pleads not guilty to organized crime
Police in Mississauga looking for victims of alleged immigration scam
Man convicted in fatal drive-by shooting of professor, teen
Court weighing whether graffiti mecca was protected by law
In this July 8, 2004 file photo, a warehouse building known as "5 Pointz" is shown with graffiti work from various artists from around the world, is visible between cars of an elevated subway train in the Queens, N.Y. Four years after the graffiti-covered warehouse was whitewashed, a jury will decide whether the street art deserved protection under the law. (AP Photo/Frank Franklin, File)
54 Egyptian police killed in ambush, say officials
A picture taken on October 21, 2017 shows members of the Egyptian security forces resting on the top of an armoured vehicle (APCs) parked on the desert road towards the Bahariya oasis in Egypt's Western desert, about 135 kilometres (83 miles) southwest of Giza, near the site of an attack that left dozens of police officers killed in an ambush by Islamist fighters.An official statement said a number of the attackers were killed, but did not give any figures for losses on either side.Medics and security sources gave a death toll of 35 among police.
To learn how to say New Zealand leader's name, just call her
FILE - In this Oct. 19, 2017 file photo, New Zealand Labour Party leader Jacinda Ardern addresses a press conference at Parliament in Wellington, New Zealand. When an Australian journalist wanted to find out how to correctly pronounce the name of Ardern, New Zealand’s incoming prime minister, he unwittingly went straight to the top. According to the New Zealand Herald, Tiger Webb of Australia’s ABC Radio called the New Zealand Parliament on Friday, Oct. 20, to find out how Jacinda Ardern pronounces her surname. Webb was transferred to the Labour Party’s offices, and none other than Ardern herself answered the phone. (Mark Mitchell/New Zealand Herald via AP)
Transcript errors and omissions prolong Jodi Arias appeal
FILE - In this Aug. 13, 2014 file photo, Jodi Arias looks at her defense attorney during a hearing in Maricopa County Superior Court in Phoenix, Ariz. Consideration of Arias' appeal of her first-degree murder conviction for the 2008 killing of on-again off-again boyfriend Travis Alexander has been delayed by about a year by problems with assembling trial transcripts. (Tom Tingle /The Arizona Republic via AP, Pool,File)
New Fort Wayne home planned for extensive Lincoln collection
13 soldiers killed in latest attack on Niger's military
AP FACT CHECK: Trump on military death, and taxes
In this Tuesday, Oct. 17, 2017, frame from video, Myeshia Johnson cries over the casket in Miami of her husband, Sgt. La David Johnson, who was killed in an ambush in Niger. President Donald Trump told the widow that her husband "knew what he signed up for," according to Rep. Frederica Wilson who said she heard part of the conversation on speakerphone. (WPLG via AP)
The Latest: Mourners remember fallen soldier in Florida
US: DNA test confirms top Filipino terror suspect is dead
Long-term future of Bombardier's other commercial aircraft unclear: analysts
Airbus CEO Tom Enders, right, shakes hands with Bombardier CEO and President Alain Bellemare during a visit to Bombardier's Mirabel plant in Mirabel, Quebec, Friday, October 20, 2017. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Graham Hughes
Long-term future of Bombardier's other commercial aircraft unclear: analysts
New Orleans museum Halloween tour highlights the macabre
Lincoln museum exhibit features Christmas at the White House
The Latest: Canada PM 1st thought Mugabe post was 'bad joke'
Malta offers $1.18 million to discover who killed reporter
FBI inspector Kieron Ramsey, left, looks at Malta Police commissioner Lawrence Cutajar, during a press conference on the murder of journalist Daphne Caruana Galizias, at police headquarters of Floriana, Malta, Thursday, Oct. 19, 2017. Caruana Galizia, a harsh critic of Maltese Premier Joseph Muscat, and who reported extensively on corruption on Malta, was killed by a car bomb on Monday. (AP Photo/Rene Rossignaud)
Tillerson's Mideast aim is a Saudi-Iraqi axis against Iran
Secretary of State Rex Tillerson steps off his plane as he arrives at King Salman Air Base, Saturday, Oct. 21, 2017, in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, Pool)
Unforgiving wildfires affect vineyard workers and owners
FILE -- In this Oct. 17, 2017 file photo wildfire evacuee Gonzalo Jauregui, a local grape picker, browses through donated toiletries at the Sonoma-Marin Fairgrounds in Petaluma, Calif. The deadliest and most destructive wildfires in California history imperiled both the low-wage workers who harvest the nation's most valuable wine grapes and the wealthy entrepreneurs who employ them. (AP Photo/Olga R. Rodriguez,file)
Voter advocates push Illinois to exit multistate database
After years of influence, GOP kingmaker's future uncertain
FILE - In a May 23, 2017 file photo, former Majority Leader Rick Quinn, left, and his father, Richard Quinn Sr. pause as they talk during a break in a hearing to get solicitor David Pascoe disqualified from the prosecution of Quinn in Columbia, S.C. Solicitor David Pascoe announced Wednesday, Oct. 18, that the State Grand Jury had returned indictments against Richard Quinn on charges of criminal conspiracy and failure to register as a lobbyist. Grand jurors also issued new indictments for two lawmakers already charged. Rep. Rick Quinn, the elder Quinn’s son, was charged with criminal conspiracy. (Tim Dominick/The State via AP)
Hundreds of Romanians rally in support of civil partnerships
3 year-old Filipa, plays with the EU flag during a rally in support of civil partnerships, in Bucharest, Romania, Saturday, Oct. 21, 2017. Several hundred rallied Saturday to urge that civil partnerships be legally recognized in Romania. (AP Photo/Andreea Alexandru)
Belarusian opposition activists rally, urging leader to go
Bomb kills former Afghan warlord, bodyguard
Trump has no plans to block scheduled release of JFK records
Polish man confesses to deadly knife attack, prosecutor says
Police are seen in front of the VIVO! shopping mall where a knife attack took place, in Stalowa Wola, southeastern Poland, Friday, Oct. 20, 2017. Police in Poland say there are no terror or political motives for a knife attack at a shopping mall that left one person dead and nine injured. Police say shoppers detained the alleged attacker, a 27-year-old local man, until police could arrive. (AP Photo)
Gunmen launch attacks near Freeport Indonesia mine; 3 hurt
Former presidents call for unity at hurricane aid concert
FILE - In this Jan. 7, 2009 file photo, Then-President George W. Bush, center, poses with President-elect Barack Obama, and former presidents, from left, George H.W. Bush, left, Bill Clinton and Jimmy Carter, right, in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington. All five living former U.S. presidents will be attending a concert Saturday night, Oct. 21, 2017, in a Texas college town, raising money for relief efforts from Hurricane Harvey, Irma and Maria's devastation in Texas, Florida, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
Morocco recalls envoy over Algeria official's hashish claims
3 killed outside pizza parlour in Puerto Rico; 3 injured
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