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Ugandan opposition figure Bobi Wine is freed on bail
KAMPALA, Uganda - Ugandan pop star and opposition figure Bobi Wine was freed on bail Thursday after spending three nights in a maximum-security prison. The lawmaker, whose real name is Kyagulanyi Ssen...
May 02, 2019
Joe Jonas and Sophie Turner get married in surprise wedding
LAS VEGAS - Joe Jonas was already having a big night: reuniting with his brothers for their band's first performance at an awards show in a decade and announcing their upcoming tour. But his night bec...
May 02, 2019
Olympic lugers Walker, Snith feel real speed with Canadian Forces Snowbirds
The love of speed Tristan Walker inherited from his air force pilot grandfather came full circle when the luger took to the skies with the Canadian Forces Snowbirds. Walker and teammate Justin Sn...
May 02, 2019
Ahead of Trudeau meeting, Kenney calls assessment bill a threat to unity
OTTAWA - Alberta Premier Jason Kenney says if the federal bill overhauling environmental assessments passes in its current form it will threaten Canadian unity and there will be "an immediate constitu...
May 02, 2019
Netflix announces deal for film about Thailand's cave boys
BANGKOK - Netflix is joining with the production company for the movie "Crazy Rich Asians" to make a film about last July's dramatic rescue of 12 boys and their soccer coach who were trapped in a floo...
May 02, 2019
Biden's rise tests Trump plan of casting foes as socialists
WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump may want to cast his potential Democratic rivals as a band of angry socialists, but Joe Biden is not co-operating with Trump's reelection strategy, and that's givin...
May 02, 2019
Daniel Radcliffe to return to London stage in Beckett play
LONDON - Daniel Radcliffe is returning to the London stage in a Samuel Beckett double bill. The Old Vic Theatre says the former "Harry Potter" star will appear alongside Alan Cumming in a production o...
May 02, 2019
Lawmakers to see empty chair, not AG Barr, at House hearing
WASHINGTON - Attorney General William Barr plans to skip a House Judiciary hearing Thursday on special counsel Robert Mueller's report , escalating an already acrimonious battle between Democrats and ...
May 02, 2019
'Riley Howell is a hero': Student who attacked gunman lauded
CHARLOTTE, N.C. - David Belnap stood on his North Carolina college campus aching from the latest U.S. school shooting as he held a candle and wore a homemade T-shirt with "Riley Howell is a hero" writ...
May 02, 2019
Semenya's case reflects broader dilemmas facing sports world
NEW YORK - Caster Semenya's running career, jarred by an adverse court ruling on Wednesday, is unique in virtually all its details. Yet the dilemmas she has posed for the track-and-field establishment...
May 02, 2019
