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Top-seeded Philadelphia Union survived a huge scare before opening their Major League Soccer playoff campaign with a nervy victory over Chicago Fire on Sunday.Philadelphia, the Supporters Shield winners after finishing the regular season with the best record in the league, needed a penalty shoot-out to beat Chicago in the first game of their best-of-three series.The …

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Yoshinobu Yamamoto’s complete-game masterclass on the mound and home runs from Will Smith and Max Muncy propelled the Los Angeles Dodgers to a 5-1 victory over the Toronto Blue Jays that knotted the World Series at one game apiece on Saturday.Japan’s Yamamoto, who pitched Major League Baseball’s first postseason complete game in eight years in …

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Australian Lani Pallister crushed Katie Ledecky’s 800m freestyle short course world record on Saturday, roaring to victory in 7min 54.00sec as the Toronto World Cup closed with five world records on the day.Pallister sliced 3.42sec off the world record that US great Ledecky set at a World Cup meeting in Indianapolis on November 5, 2022 …

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US President Donald Trump slammed Canada for playing “dirty” Friday as a row over an advertisement featuring former leader Ronald Reagan that prompted Trump to scrap trade talks showed no sign of abating.The Canadian province of Ontario said it would pull the offending anti-tariff ad on Monday so that negotiations could restart, after Trump alleged …

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Addison Barger blasted a towering grand slam as the Toronto Blue Jays thrashed the defending champion Los Angeles Dodgers 11-4 to take a 1-0 lead in Major League Baseball’s World Series on Friday.Barger’s 413-foot blast to center field at Toronto’s Rogers Centre was the highlight of a spectacular nine-run sixth inning by the Blue Jays, …

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In a picturesque town on the US-Canada border, workers under dark clouds were building a new entrance for Canadians into a library to replace one that had long symbolized bilateral closeness.For more than a century, Canadians in Stanstead, Quebec, could walk through a door in the Haskell Free Library into Derby Line, Vermont, without passing …

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Los Angeles Dodgers reliever Alex Vesia is expected to miss the entirety of the World Series after withdrawing from the squad due to personal reasons, manager Dave Roberts said on Friday.Vesia, a key part of the Dodgers bullpen, was ruled out of Friday’s game one on Thursday after the team announced he was dealing with …

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For Canadians with jobs on the frontline of the tariff war, President Donald Trump’s surprise decision to end trade talks has intensified anxiety about their future — uncertainty that has become a daily reality.”You just don’t know anymore what’s going to happen day-to-day, week-to-week. There’s so much insecurity,” said John D’Agnolo, who leads an autoworkers …

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