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'Endless Cookie' wins $50,000 audience award at Hot Docs Festival

'Endless Cookie' wins $50,000 audience award at Hot Docs Festival

An animated documentary about the relationship between an Indigenous and white pair of half-brothers has won the top prize at this year's Hot Docs Festival. "Endless Cookie" took home the $50,000 audience award at a ceremony on Sunday.
Here's why May the 4th is celebrated as Star Wars Day across the galaxy

Here's why May the 4th is celebrated as Star Wars Day across the galaxy

It didn't begin a long time ago or in a galaxy far far away, but every May 4 it feels like images, memes and promotional deals involving “Star Wars” have an inescapable gravity.
Brazilian police arrest 2 people over alleged plot targeting Lady Gaga concert in Rio

Brazilian police arrest 2 people over alleged plot targeting Lady Gaga concert in Rio

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Police in Brazil said on Sunday that two people have been arrested in connection with an alleged plot to detonate explosives at a free Lady Gaga concert in Rio de Janeiro.
'Thunderbolts' kicks off the summer movie season with $76 million at the box office

'Thunderbolts' kicks off the summer movie season with $76 million at the box office

NEW YORK (AP) — Marvel Studios’ “Thunderbolts" opened with $76 million in domestic ticket sales, according to studio estimates Sunday, kicking off the summer box office with a solid No. 1 debut that fell shy of Marvel’s more spectacular launches.
A merging of cultures is happening in Miami, where F1's circuit has become a beach vacation

A merging of cultures is happening in Miami, where F1's circuit has become a beach vacation

MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. (AP) — In between the loud zooms of cars whipping around the race track, nightclub-like electronic beats blared through the speakers at the Miami Grand Prix.
Cuts have eliminated more than a dozen US government health-tracking programs

Cuts have eliminated more than a dozen US government health-tracking programs

NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s motto is “ Make America Healthy Again ,” but government cuts could make it harder to know if that's happening.
In Cameroon’s civil war, spoken-word poets speak the unspeakable

In Cameroon’s civil war, spoken-word poets speak the unspeakable

BUEA, Cameroon (AP) — A woman cried out upon seeing what looked like a corpse, a sheet-covered form lying on a stretcher. As volunteers wheeled it onto the stage, Boris Taleabong Alemnge recited a poem whose title spoke the unspoken: “Death.
Did you steal the sign? German pop star asks his fans to return hometown symbol

Did you steal the sign? German pop star asks his fans to return hometown symbol

TOETENSEN, Germany (AP) — Did you steal the sign? German pop star Dieter Bohlen is asking his fans to return a sign spelling out the name of his hometown of Toetensen.
Canada's deepening dependence on U.S. has been a decades-long evolution, experts say

Canada's deepening dependence on U.S. has been a decades-long evolution, experts say

OTTAWA — Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre has repeatedly accused the Liberal government of entrenching Canada's economic dependence on the United States.
Seven foreign policy challenges facing PM Mark Carney that aren't about Donald Trump

Seven foreign policy challenges facing PM Mark Carney that aren't about Donald Trump

OTTAWA — Prime Minister Mark Carney has many foreign policy issues on his plate — and they're not all about U.S. President Donald Trump.