BEIJING (AP) 鈥 In one small step for robot-kind 鈥 thousands of them, really 鈥 humanoid robots ran alongside actual humans in a half-marathon in the Chinese capital on Saturday.
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ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) 鈥 From Harry Potter to Super Mario Bros. to Frankenstein's monster, Universal Orlando Resort is pulling out all the pop culture stops at its newest and largest theme park in Florida.
WASHINGTON (AP) 鈥 A federal judge who ordered the Trump administration to stop blocking The Associated Press from presidential events refused Friday to take immediate steps to get White House officials to comply 鈥 an incremental development in a two-month dispute between the global news agen…
TORONTO - HudsonB次元官网网址 Bay has asked a court to allow it to put the royal charter that launched the company 355 years ago on the auction block, along with its trove of art and historical artifacts.
Drake complains about Kendrick Lamar's 'Not Like Us' Super Bowl performance in new defamation claims
Hip hop superstar Drake is now complaining about rival rapper Kendrick Lamar's performance of 鈥淣ot Like Us鈥 at this year's Super Bowl, adding it to his defamation lawsuit against Universal Music Group over the diss track and its allegations of pedophilia against Drake.
The Associated Press and the Trump administration returned to a courtroom Thursday 鈥 and will be in another on Friday 鈥 as part of the high-stakes battle over who can control which journalists are able to question the president.
TORONTO - Artificial intelligence pioneer Geoffrey Hinton has thrown some support behind creative industries, which have been battling tech firms to be compensated for their work.
OTTAWA - The Bank of Canada doesn't know quite yet how to navigate monetary policy amid constantly shifting trade turbulence with the United States, so the central bank kept its powder dry with an interest rate hold on Wednesday.
NEW YORK (AP) 鈥 Spotify experienced a widespread outage Wednesday 鈥 with tens of thousands of users reporting problems with the popular music and audio streamer. But the platform said it was back up and running hours later.
In a colorful commentary for the Los Angeles Times, Matt K. Lewis argued that callousness is a central feature of the second Trump administration, particularly its policies of deportation and bureaucratic cutbacks. 鈥淥nce you normalize cruelty,鈥 Lewis concluded in the piece, 鈥渢he hammer event…
WASHINGTON - Automobile companies that continue to manufacture vehicles in Canada will get an exemption from Ottawa's retaliatory tariffs as U.S. President Donald Trump attempts to upend the North American industry with steep import duties.
OTTAWA - A surprise slowdown in inflation last month has turned the Bank of Canada's interest rate decision on Wednesday into a coin toss, with some economists leaning toward a hold and others saying a cut is warranted.
The Canadian Real Estate Association downgraded its forecast for home sales this year, while it also reported Tuesday the number of homes that changed hands across the country in March fell 9.3 per cent compared with a year ago.
OTTAWA - Canada's annual inflation rate was 2.3 per cent in March, Statistics Canada says. Here's what happened in the provinces (previous month in brackets):
OTTAWA - Canada's annual inflation rate was 2.3 per cent in March, Statistics Canada says. The agency also released rates for major cities, but cautioned that figures may have fluctuated widely because they are based on small statistical samples (previous month in brackets):
Despite a court order, a reporter and photographer from The Associated Press were barred from an Oval Office news conference on Monday with President Donald Trump and his counterpart from El Salvador, Nayib Bukele.
Jeff Bezos鈥 Blue Origin launched his fiancee Lauren Sanchez into space Monday with an all-female celebrity crew that included Katy Perry and Gayle King.
President Donald Trump bitterly attacked 鈥60 Minutes鈥 shortly after the CBS newsmagazine broadcast stories on Ukraine and Greenland on Sunday, saying the network was out of control and should 鈥減ay a big price鈥 for going after him.
TORONTO - Canadian researchers say any future legislation meant to level the playing field between Big Tech and journalism organizations must account for generative artificial intelligence.
TORONTO - A challenging environment for attracting key advertising dollars continues to plague Corus Entertainment Inc., but the company says it could reap the benefits of the "Buy Canadian" movement that has gained momentum in response to U.S. tariffs.
Canadian visits to the United States plummeted last month amid anger over tariffs and annexation threats from its president, on top of growing fears about treatment at the border.
ROME (AP) 鈥 The Prada Group announced a deal Thursday to buy crosstown Milan fashion rival Versace from the U.S. luxury group Capri Holdings under terms that values one of the most recognizable names in Italian fashion at 1.25 billion euros ($1.4 billion).
MECHANICSBURG, Pa. (AP) 鈥 Mike Fowler had been faintly aware that a museum of Rolls-Royce and Bentley vehicles existed near his boyhood home in the suburbs of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, but the car enthusiast didn't expect the experience he got when he started volunteering there.
LONDON (AP) 鈥 Universal has chosen the homeland of Harry Potter to build its first theme park and resort in Europe, the entertainment company and U.K. officials announced Wednesday.
TORONTO - A bombastic boardroom battle for control of the Rogers telecom empire is hitting the stage as a live theatre production later this year.
LOS ANGELES (AP) 鈥 Albums from Elton John, Miles Davis, Tracy Chapman, Mary J. Blige and the cast of 鈥淗amilton" are entering America's audio canon, along with singles from Helen Reddy and Celine Dion and the music of Minecraft.
The Trump administration said Wednesday it would appeal a federal court decision that ordered it to re-admit Associated Press journalists to White House events on First Amendment grounds.
A Chinese billionaire in British Columbia has taken to social media to announce her plans to buy dozens of Hudson's Bay locations after she saw "Canadians feeling sad" over the collapse of the retail giant.聽
LONDON (AP) 鈥 Prince Harry was treated unfairly when he was stripped of his British security detail, his attorney told appeals court judges Tuesday as he sought to win back his government-funded protection.
TORONTO - Cineplex Inc. says its box office revenue for March totalled $29.5 million, down from $59.2 million a year earlier when its results were powered by Dune: Part Two and Kung Fu Panda 4.
WASHINGTON (AP) 鈥 Undeterred by a stock market collapse that has continued for days, President Donald Trump threatened additional tariffs on China on Monday, raising fresh concerns that his drive to rebalance the global economy could intensify a financially destructive trade war.
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) 鈥 Mega Millions players will get slightly better odds and should start seeing more billion-dollar jackpots, but at a cost 鈥 literally 鈥 with tickets for the multistate lottery jumping in price to $5.
TORONTO - When Grizzly Bar opens next week in Toronto, diners will have no doubt about where its owners鈥 allegiances lie in the trade war between Canada and the U.S.
Hollywood needed 鈥淎 Minecraft Movie鈥 to be a hit, and it delivered in its opening weekend, significantly narrowing this year's box office deficit.
Washington Post columnist Eugene Robinson is leaving the newspaper, the second such veteran to exit in the wake of owner Jeff Bezos' directive that the Post narrow the topics covered by its opinion section to personal liberties and the free market.
OTTAWA - March saw the Canadian economy post its biggest job loss since January 2022 as the uncertainty caused by U.S. tariffs started to take a toll.
OTTAWA - A quick look at Canada's March employment figures (numbers from the previous month in brackets):
OTTAWA - The national unemployment rate was 6.7 per cent in March. Statistics Canada also released seasonally adjusted, three-month moving average unemployment rates for major cities. It cautions, however, that the figures may fluctuate widely because they are based on small statistical samp…
OTTAWA - Canada's national unemployment rate was 6.7 per cent in March. Here are the jobless rates last month by province (numbers from the previous month in brackets):
TORONTO - When Hudson's Bay closes the vast majority of its stores in June, the job losses will extend beyond the storied retailer's own workforce.
TORONTO - Canadian apparel companies including Aritzia and Lululemon saw their stock prices slide Thursday as investors reacted to the sweeping new tariffs announced by U.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday.聽
NEW YORK (AP) 鈥 The MTV Video Music Awards have a new home: This year, the music award show will be broadcast by CBS for the first time, organizers announced Thursday.
NEW YORK (AP) 鈥 Rihanna is accustomed to defying convention.
LONDON (AP) 鈥 In Abbey RoadB次元官网网址 Studio One, even a lick of paint could ruin everything.
NEW YORK (AP) 鈥 Nintendo's Switch 2 is bigger and better than its predecessor of eight years past as the video game developer pushes to bring its brand into 鈥渁 new era" where social experiences are at the forefront.
MONTREAL - Melanie McGovern was scrolling through her Instagram feed in February 2024 when she saw her 16-year-old niece had sent her a message.
Automaker Stellantis is temporarily pausing production at its assembly plant in Windsor, Ont., for two weeks as it assesses the effects of the recently announced U.S. tariffs on imported vehicles.
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) 鈥 Jean-Jacques Asperges once relished returning home after a long day working at a radio station in one of the worldB次元官网网址 most dangerous places for journalists.
WASHINGTON - Prime Minister Mark Carney said Donald Trump's tariff regime will "fundamentally change the global trading system" after the U.S. president exempted Canada from his so-called "liberation day" tariff list unveiled on Wednesday.
For over a year before the November 2024 presidential election, Donald Trump had been signalling plans to impose across-the-board tariffs if he won the United States presidency.
NEW YORK (AP) 鈥 Nintendo has announced a June 5 launch date and $449.99 price tag for its latest gaming console, the Switch 2, which will introduce interactive chat and screenshare functions to connect gamers.
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