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SAO PAULO — The certificate arrived on the floor of an otherwise empty elevator. My 1-year-old stumbled to the doorway of our Sao Paulo apartment and watched as I picked up the document.

TORONTO — Out of work and far from family, Cora Matheson hit a low point sheltering in place in Toronto. She began debating a summer getaway to her hometown of Kenora, Ont., as she's done many summers before.

Nanci Ryder, a powerful Hollywood publicist and co-founder of BWR Public Relations who became close to such stars as Renée Zellweger and Courteney Cox, died Thursday of Lou Gehrig’s disease in Los Angeles. She was 67.

LONDON — One of the most memorable episodes of one of the most popular British sitcoms of all-time has been withdrawn from a U.K. streaming service because of numerous racial slurs.

Survivors of COVID-19 are donating their blood plasma in droves in hopes it helps other patients recover from the coronavirus.

1. “White Fragility” by Robin DiAngelo (Beacon Press) 2. “The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes” by Suzanne Collins (Scholastic) 3. “How to Be an Antiracist” by Ibram X. Kendi (One World) 4.

MEXICO CITY — Oscar-winning Mexican directors Guillermo del Toro and Alejandro González Iñárritu joined actress Salma Hayek to set up a fund to help support movie industry workers out of work due to the coronavirus pandemic.

Survivors of COVID-19 are donating their blood plasma in droves in hopes it helps other patients recover from the coronavirus.

TORONTO — Bell Media pulled Jessica Mulroney's reality series "I Do, Redo" off the air Thursday after the celebrity stylist was accused by Sasha Exeter of threatening the Toronto lifestyle influencer's career and trying to "silence a Black woman" dur

NEW YORK — Drugstore chains Walgreens and CVS Health say they will stop locking up beauty and hair care products aimed at black women and other women of colour , joining Walmart in ending a practice at some stores that has drawn the ire of customers.