New Avengers: Endgame Footage Reveals Status of Infinity Stones and Why Captain Marvel Didn’t Return Sooner

This article contains plot details about Avengers: Endgame! While Disney showed it to the press, some may nevertheless find the following details spoilerish. Disney showed two scenes from Avengers: Endgame at CinemaCon on Wednesday, footage which revealed the status of the Infinity Stones and explains — to a degree — why Captain Marvel has been…

Division I super regional moves to three-day format

The Division I Competition Oversight Committee approved a change to the super regional format of the Division I Softball Championship, which will take effect in the 2017 season. Next season, the super regionals will be conducted as three-day competitions. Previously, the softball super regionals were conducted over a two-day period with the third game, if…

Cyclone Idai death toll reaches 732, hundreds still missing (PHOTOS, VIDEO)

The death toll from a devastating cyclone that struck Zimbabwe and neighboring Mozambique a week ago has spiraled to 732, and is expected to rise even further as hundreds remain missing. Survivors are struggling to deal with the aftermath of the huge disaster, with an estimated 1 million people affected in Mozambique alone. Tens of…

Maxime Bernier's Party Scores Backing Of Ex-MP Gurmant Grewal, Pot Activist Marc Emery

OTTAWA — A dragon, a marijuana activist and a former Tory MP who backed maverick MP Maxime Bernier’s leadership campaign are now throwing their weight behind his fledgling new political party. Bernier, who spent much of the last year butting heads with Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer over party policy on supply management, announced last month…

2016 Women’s Softball World Championship starts on July 15

SURREY, Canada — The biennial Women’s Softball World Championship will bring together a record 31 national teams from all five regions to Surrey, Canada from July 15-24. This represents the largest global footprint in the event’s history, with eleven nations will be making their women’s world championship debuts. The gold medal game will take center stage on July 24…

DC Universe App to Feature ‘Full Access’ to DC’s Comic Book Library

DC is making good on the promise to expand the lineup of comics available in the DC Universe streaming app. Following several significant content updates in January and February, DC will be making its full comic book catalog available to DC Universe subscribers. As revealed at WonderCon this evening, DC will add thousands more classic…

Over 130 dead, village ‘devastated’ after apparent ethnic attack in Mali

At least 134 people have been killed in an apparent ethnically-motivated attack on a village in southern Mali. Another village was also attacked, according to local officials, and the body count is expected to grow even further. The village of Ogossagou, inhabited by Fulani herders, was attacked by a group of gunmen early in the…

NDP Yet To Nominate A Single Candidate For The 2019 Election

OTTAWA — Federal political parties are gearing up for the final parliamentary session before the next election, but while the Conservatives and the Liberals tout having many candidates nominated and money in the bank, the NDP has yet to nominate a single candidate. NDP president Mathieu Vick says the party revamped its nomination process over…

Ukrainians head to polling stations to elect next president

Voting for Ukraine’s next president is underway, five years after mass protests resulted in a radical change in the country’s course. There are a record 39 names on the ballot in this year’s race. Unlike the previous election in 2014, which billionaire former minister Petro Poroshenko won by a landslide following the Maidan protests, this…

Pussy Riot Worried Russian-Canadian Pyotr Verzilov Has Been Poisoned

MOSCOW (Reuters) – Prominent anti-Kremlin activist Pyotr Verzilov is seriously ill and in hospital, members of the Pussy Riot protest band with whom he collaborated said late on Wednesday, suggesting he may have been poisoned. Verzilov, 30, staged a brief pitch invasion during the soccer World Cup final in Moscow in July along with three…