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By JOHN WAWROW TORONTO — Late substitute Cyle Larin scored in the 78th minute and co-host Canada earned its first point in its third World Cup appearance — and first on home soil — by rallying for a 1-1 draw …

Ducks winger Beckett Sennecke was named to the NHL’s All-Rookie Team on Friday. He finished in third place for the Calder Trophy as the NHL’s Rookie of the Year behind unanimous winner Matthew Schaefer, a defenseman for the New York …

As Rush returned after intermission on Thursday, June 11, an animated clip of the “South Park” kids arguing over the meaning of Rush’s hit “Tom Sawyer” led, as it has for years, into the band playing its signature tune for …

There are echo chambers and then there are right-wing echo chambers. If you go down the rabbit hole of right-wing media, you’d think it was inevitable that Spencer Pratt would become the mayor of Los Angeles and the only reason …

The world according to Jim: • Sorry, Lakers fans. We’re going to have to dredge up some painful memories here for a few moments, but there’s a point to be made. When the San Antonio Spurs spit up a 29-point …

By COLLIN BINKLEY WASHINGTON (AP) — One was a rotating disc that sent out beams of light. Another was a shining red orb of a hue the observer had never seen before. Then there was the one compared to a …

By GARY FIELDS WASHINGTON (AP) — A bystander wounded during an exchange of gunfire near the White House last month is an active-duty soldier and is still being treated for his wounds, according to the law firm he has retained. …

The beaches of South Florida are currently clogged with bristly, stinky and downright annoying piles of seaweed known as sargassum. To get in the water, you need to stride through and sometimes swim within the seaweed. Even if you stay …

The Bear Flag Revolt Today we look back 180 years to the Bear Flag Revolt in which California’s short-lived sovereignty ended when it was annexed by the U.S. The Bear Flag Republic was in a small portion of Mexican land …

Big waves combined with king tides could spell disaster this weekend. Officials and residents in low-lying beach areas could see salt water flooding into streets and homes, especially as a recent run of strong swells has chomped away at beaches, …

There’s identity politics. This, my friends and enemies, is the identity sports equivalent. And the purpose and intent: To make sure mega and MAGA are never separated moving forward and forever when it comes to its arranged marriage to sports. …

Convicted cocaine cash launderer David Berger no longer holds an Illinois cannabis license, signaling that he has cut ties with the Ivy Hall marijuana dispensary chain he helped launch, according to state records and regulators. Berger, a Northbrook native who …

Maeve Priestley was overcome with anxiety when she woke up early one morning and discovered the driver’s side window of her Honda Civic had been smashed out. Priestley, 26, cried outside her Lake View condo building as she assessed the …

By MICHELLE L. PRICE WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump said the U.S. is close to signing a deal with Iran to wind down the war, with a memorandum of understanding to be signed in the coming days. But some …

By COREY WILLIAMS DEARBORN, Mich. (AP) — A home where the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and other leaders planned strategies during the Civil Rights movement in the Deep South has been rebuilt at a Michigan museum after being dismantled …

By LORNE COOK BRUSSELS (AP) — European Union nations agreed on Friday to open membership talks with Ukraine next week, officially launching the process for the war-torn country to eventually join the world’s biggest trading bloc. At a meeting in …

Malibu, Los Angeles County Beaches, Santa Barbara County Southwestern Coast, Santa Barbara County Southeastern Coast and Ventura County Beaches are included in an updated beach hazards statement issued by the National Weather Service on Friday at 12:07 p.m. The statement …

By BETH HARRIS LOS ANGELES (AP) — Ronnie Schell, who played the best friend to the title character on the 1960s sitcom “Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C.” and whose gradual ascendancy in show business earned him the title of “America’s Slowest Rising …

By Alex Longley, Grant Smith, Prejula Prem and Alaric Nightingale | Bloomberg Shipowners are watching warily for a peace deal between the US and Iran and what it would mean for the Strait of Hormuz, with some tanker owners expressing …

An international fugitive accused of executing a man in Orange County and orchestrating a botched murder for hire in San Jose that left the wrong person dead has been returned to the United States after being captured in Laos, authorities …