Ovechkin will have a chance to break the record Sunday when the Capitals play the New York Islanders at 12:30 p.m. ET.

It also set a new UConn single-game NCAA tournament scoring record previously held by Kerry Bascom since 1991. That bucket in the fourth quarter gave Bueckers 30 points and UConn’s first 20 ...

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Canada’s wildfire season is getting started but it's not emerging as a hot topic in the federal election campaign so far. Here's what the parties have pledged.

A degree of calm returned to Wall Street, with stocks and bonds notching a twin rally after a tumultuous week in the grip of President Donald Trump’s disruptive trade war. With the White House ...

Scientists have gained more insight into an extinct species of archaic humans after confirmation that the oldest human fossil in Taiwan is the remains of a Denisovan. Analysis of proteins extracted ...

To find answers, a team of researchers studied North America’s fossil record, focusing on the 18 million years before the mass extinction at the end of the Cretaceous period. The new analysis ...

Here's the latest on what we know. The fossil tooth from Ohio used for the DNA extraction is around 13,000 years old. According to USA TODAY, Colossal harvested ancient DNA from real dire wolf ...

What little we know about Denisovans is based on a handful of fragmented fossil remains unearthed in Siberia’s Denisova Cave and China’s Tibetan Plateau. A new analysis, however, adds another ...