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OTTAWA – Canada's seat of government put on a back-slapping display of fortitude and common purpose Thursday as MPs convened in the shadow of a brazen, deadly attack.
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OMAHA, Neb. – An American video journalist who recovered from Ebola at an Omaha hospital left the facility Wednesday afternoon and is heading home to Rhode Island, a hospital spokesman said.

GUNMAN STORMS PARLIAMENT HILL; AT LEAST TWO HURT, INCLUDING A SOLDIER
SALT LAKE CITY – The Mormon church is addressing the mystery that has long surrounded undergarments worn by its faithful with a new video explaining the practice in-depth while admonishing ridicule from outsiders about what it considers a symbol of Latter-day Saints’ devotion to God.
OMAHA, Neb. – An American video journalist who has recovered from Ebola will be released soon from an Omaha hospital.
SALT LAKE CITY – A risque video shot in conservative Utah featuring bikini-clad women firing high-powered weapons and riding in tanks for a pinup calendar has raised the ire of a pair of law enforcement agencies who have found some of their officers appearing in the film.
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LOS ANGELES, Calif. – Lawyer and former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani cited his own experience as a public figure while arguing Thursday that a lawsuit by disgraced Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega against video game maker Activision should be dismissed.

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KAMLOOPS – Small-business owners, a lawyer, a judge - even the mayor will dance for a crowd and judging panel this weekend. The event, inspired by popular TV show “Dancing with the Stars” will feature well-known community members from Kamloops. Royal Inland Hospital’s event “Dancing like the Stars” will take place at the Columbo Hall...

LOS ANGELES, Calif. – Neil Patrick Harris is going for an awards-show trifecta, set to host the 2015 Oscars after four hosting stints at Broadway’s Tony Awards and two at TV’s Primetime Emmy Awards.

KELOWNA – A pair of amateur local filmmakers have released a stunning video of local trails that is sure to attract some new riders with the gorgeous and spectacular scenery. The four-minute film made by Kelowna's Seger Nelson and Sam Singleton features Matt Monod, a competitive mountain bike racer from Canmore, as he tears through...

PASADENA, Calif. – A California community college agreed to pay Oscar-winning screenwriter Dustin Lance Black $26,050 for rescinding a commencement speaking offer after a stolen sex video emerged online of the “Milk” writer.

NEW ORLEANS – The menu includes crickets and wax worms on toothpick skewers for dipping in a fountain of melted chocolate, along with "tarsal toffee" made with bug legs and mealworms and fudge infused with crickets and marshmallows.

BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. – Viola Davis told a crowd of Hollywood luminaries that her drive to end childhood hunger is fueled by memories of growing up in "abject poverty," stealing and crawling through maggot-filled garbage bins to get food.

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GLENS FALLS, N.Y. – A New York minor league hockey team has apologized for a skit introducing its new mascot as a firefighter-whuppin’ flame from a devastating 19th-century fire.
DALLAS – The family of a man diagnosed with the first U.S. case of Ebola visited him at the hospital Tuesday but declined to view him again via video because the last time had been too upsetting.
OMAHA, Neb. – An American video journalist who contracted Ebola while working in Liberia arrived Monday at a Nebraska hospital where he will be treated for the deadly disease.

CHICAGO – As a teenager, holed up in his bedroom, illuminated by the glow of his laptop, Youngbin Chung became addicted to video games. Ten-hours-a-day addicted.

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – The mass ascension of hundreds of hot air balloons above Albuquerque went off without a hitch Saturday morning.

HONG KONG – Pro-democracy protesters were defiant in the face of attacks by opponents and warnings by the Hong Kong government to clear the streets, staging a massive rally Saturday evening in the downtown business district they've occupied for a week.

LONDON – In a medical first, a woman in Sweden has given birth after receiving a womb transplant, the doctor who performed the pioneering procedure said Friday.