February 15, 2019

SAINT JOHN, N.B. — A forensic expert says he cannot tell how old the bloodstains are on the jacket Dennis Oland was wearing the day his father was beaten to death, or how ...

February 15, 2019

Greg and Gerry Latham spent Friday morning scrambling to pack up family heirlooms as a series of sinkholes threatened to destroy their dream retirement home on British ...

February 15, 2019

FORT MCMURRAY, Alta. — Parents of Fort McMurray minor hockey players whose team was criticized for an Indigenous locker-room dance captured in a viral video say they're ...

February 15, 2019

PARIS — A gay French writer has lifted the lid on what he calls one of the world's largest gay communities, the Vatican, estimating that most of its prelates are homosexually...

February 15, 2019

MONTREAL — Quebec New Democrat MP Ruth Ellen Brosseau says she rejected an overture from the Liberals and will run for the NDP in the next general election.In an interview ...

February 15, 2019

London is taking its turn in the style spotlight with the opening of London Fashion Week, an extravaganza that will feature up-and-coming young designers along with big names...

February 15, 2019

COPENHAGEN — The main suspect in the theft of royal funeral artifacts from a Swedish cathedral confessed Friday to stealing them after his DNA was found on the items that ...

February 15, 2019

CHICAGO — "Empire" actor and R&B singer Jussie Smollett told Chicago police last month that two men physically attacked him and yelled racial and homophobic slurs.Some key ...

February 15, 2019

OTTAWA — A Statistics Canada report is digging deeper into what kind of adults live with their parents at a time when more are doing so than ever before.Close to 1.9 million ...

February 15, 2019

OTTAWA — BlackBerry is getting $40 million in federal funding to help develop technologies that make cars safer, more connected to cyberspace and, eventually, capable of ...

February 15, 2019

CHICAGO — The Latest on the attack on "Empire" actor Jussie Smollett (all times local):9:25 p.m.Chicago police say they have released two Nigerian brothers who had been ...

February 15, 2019

WASHINGTON — With a few swipes of his Sharpie, Donald Trump assuaged America's fears of another government shutdown Friday, but not before declaring a national emergency at ...

February 15, 2019

Chicago police late Friday released without charges two Nigerian brothers arrested on suspicion of assaulting "Empire" actor Jussie Smollett and said they have new evidence ...

February 15, 2019

NEW YORK — So, Regina King walked into a 99-cent store. And what'd she get? A prophecy on her life.No joke. King was shopping around — "sometimes people will say, 'You at the...

February 15, 2019

MIAMI, Man. — A rural Manitoba school division says it is investigating after a gym teacher posted a photo to Facebook showing him holding a sign insulting Prime Minister ...

February 15, 2019

MONTREAL — An Ottawa physician who navigated the dangerous roads of Haiti Friday to get to the Port-au-Prince airport with three Canadian colleagues says he feel lucky to be ...

February 15, 2019

On that frantic morning, TK Huff was calm. The 71-year-old amputee sat in his wheelchair, pointing a garden hose at what quickly became the deadliest wildfire in California ...

February 15, 2019

NEW YORK — Amazon jilted New York City on Valentine's Day, scrapping plans to build a massive headquarters campus in Queens amid fierce opposition from politicians angry ...

February 15, 2019

WASHINGTON — Defiant in the wake of a stinging budget defeat, President Donald Trump on Friday declared a national emergency at the U.S.-Mexico border, moving to secure more ...

February 15, 2019

WASHINGTON — Despite President Donald Trump's tough talk on trade, his administration has granted hundreds of companies permission to import millions of tons of steel made in...

February 15, 2019

BRAMPTON, Ont. — A father who allegedly killed his 11-year-old daughter while the two were supposed to be celebrating the girl's birthday is in police custody and will soon ...

February 15, 2019

Four stories in the news for Friday, Feb. 15 ——— TRUDEAU TO FACE NEW QUESTIONS ON SNC-LAVALIN Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is expected to face a fresh round of ...

February 15, 2019

OTTAWA — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is expected to face a fresh round of questions on the SNC-Lavalin controversy today when he hands out some money to a technology ...

February 14, 2019

WASHINGTON — What is happening to the Democrats?Captivated by a handful of liberal superstars, they are venturing where the party has long feared to tread: Steep taxes on the...

February 14, 2019

MISSISSAUGA, Ont. — An 11-year-old girl who was allegedly abducted by her father and subject of an Amber Alert on Thursday night has been found dead at a home west of Toronto...

February 14, 2019

OTTAWA — The Liberal government is giving $40 million in federal money to BlackBerry to help the company develop self-driving car technologies.Prime Minister Justin Trudeau ...

February 14, 2019

CARACAS, Venezuela — A month into Venezuela's high-stakes political crisis, President Nicolas Maduro revealed in an Associated Press interview that his government has held ...

February 14, 2019

QUEBEC — The Quebec government moved towards fulfilling a key election promise today as it tabled a bill that would ensure children can attend kindergarten at four years ...

February 14, 2019

JERUSALEM — An Israeli software firm known for its phone-surveillance technology said Thursday that it has been re-acquired by its founders.The NSO group announced that U.S.-...

February 14, 2019

NEW YORK — Amazon abruptly dropped plans Thursday for a big new headquarters in New York that would have brought 25,000 jobs to the city, reversing course after politicians ...

February 14, 2019

Quebec Premier Francois Legault says he wants the federal government to settle with engineering firm SNC-Lavalin "as soon as possible" in order to protect jobs and the ...

February 14, 2019

OTTAWA — The Public Health Agency of Canada says at least 30 Canadians who had surgery at a clinic in Tijuana, Mexico are at risk of potentially deadly infection.But the ...

February 14, 2019

NEWARK, Del. — A man's nap in the back of his car in Delaware turned into a nightmare after the car he was sleeping in was stolen and crashed.Musician Justin Koerner told the...

February 14, 2019

SHREVEPORT, La. — Mystikal, a Louisiana rapper who had been in custody for nearly 1 1/2 years on a rape charge, has been released on a $3 million bond.The artist, whose real ...

February 14, 2019

Would anyone — anyone at all — like to thank the academy?This is normally the time of year when Oscar hopefuls are readying acceptance speeches that almost always begin with ...

February 14, 2019

EDMONTON — Laurie Moring had an inkling something was up by the time she and her boyfriend were on their way to a Valentine's Day lunch.Her suspicions grew stronger when Mike...

February 14, 2019

ST. JOHN'S, N.L. — The remarkable theft of about 30,000 litres of iceberg water from a vodka company warehouse in Newfoundland has bewildered the firm's owners.Iceberg Vodka ...

February 14, 2019

YARMOUTH, Maine — A Maine town has removed a 90-year-old cemetery plaque that referred to Native Americans as "savage enemies."Yarmouth Town Manager Nat Tupper says the ...

February 14, 2019

OSHAWA, Ont. — Sting told autoworkers at General Motors in Oshawa, Ont., that he stands in unity with them as they fight the planned closure of their local plant.The singer ...

February 14, 2019

OTTAWA — Indigenous parliamentarians say Jody Wilson-Raybould's controversial exit from the cabinet doesn't signal the end of reconciliation efforts between the federal ...

February 14, 2019

OTTAWA — Quebec won't be part of a working group the federal government wants to examine claims that Indigenous women have been sterilized against their will.A spokesperson ...

February 14, 2019

LOS ANGELES — Steven Spielberg, Lady Gaga, Spike Lee and Glenn Close have a message for Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg: Get well soon.They and three dozen ...

February 14, 2019

OKLAHOMA CITY — An attorney for former University of Oklahoma President David Boren said Thursday Boren denies any inappropriate behaviour during his more than 20 years at OU...

February 14, 2019

Police are baffled after Newfoundland thieves made off with about 30,000 litres of unbottled iceberg water worth as much as $12,000. The unusual bounty, which was to be used ...

February 14, 2019

NEW YORK — A prominent New York City art dealer once accused by Alec Baldwin of fraud was sentenced to 2 1/2 years in prison Thursday for evading over $3 million in federal ...

February 14, 2019

OTTAWA — As he lays the groundwork for the Liberals' last budget before the fall election, federal Finance Minister Bill Morneau has been highlighting two themes for a ...

February 14, 2019

HALIFAX — New court documents reveal details of how one of the masterminds of a foiled plot to attack a Halifax mall on Valentine's Day plans to appeal her life ...

February 14, 2019

Quebec provincial police say they've arrested 32 people allegedly linked to a drug trafficking ring in eastern Quebec and New Brunswick.The arrests carried out Thursday are ...

February 14, 2019

WASHINGTON — William Barr was sworn in Thursday for his second stint as the nation's attorney general, taking the helm of the Justice Department as special counsel Robert ...

February 14, 2019

Prosecutors say a man found not criminally responsible in a knife attack at a Toronto military recruitment centre should not be allowed to take college classes on his own.The...

February 14, 2019

ANDOVER, Kan. — A Kansas public library has rejected a request to move three children's books with LGBT characters out of the children's section.The Andover Public Library ...

February 14, 2019

SAINT JOHN, N.B. — Richard Oland's final moments as he was bludgeoned to death in his office are being traced in court through the patterns of bloodstains and spatter that ...

February 14, 2019

CHICAGO — The Latest on the attack on 'Empire' cast member Jussie Smollett (all times local):7:30 p.m.Producers of the television drama "Empire" are disputing reports that ...

February 14, 2019

WINDSOR, N.C. — Drivers were startled to see a hungry bear that got stuck in the back of garbage truck and took a ride across a stretch of eastern North Carolina.News outlets...

February 14, 2019

HALIFAX — A man who filled his suburban lakeside home with historic artifacts and art stolen over decades of pilfering so stealthy that many of his targets didn't even know ...

February 14, 2019

OTTAWA — Federal efforts to calm anxiety about a rapidly changing job market took another step Thursday as the Liberals launched a new agency ahead of a federal budget that ...

February 14, 2019

TORONTO — Doug Ford vowed Thursday to keep seeking so-called efficiencies to balance the budget after the province's financial watchdog said Ontario had limited opportunities...

February 14, 2019

MONTREAL — Ottawa-based physician Emilio Bazile says food is running low for him and his 10-member medical team who have been trapped in southwest Haiti after protesters ...

February 14, 2019

RIO RANCHO, N.M. — A 16-year-old student suspected of opening fire inside a high school in suburban Albuquerque was charged Thursday with attempting to commit murder and ...

February 14, 2019

MILAN — Archaeologists have discovered a fresco in an ancient Pompeii residence that portrays the mythological hunter Narcissus, who fell in love with his own reflection.The ...

February 14, 2019

Chicago police said Thursday night that local media reports that the attack against "Empire" actor Jussie Smollett was a hoax are unconfirmed.The reports surfaced as ...

February 14, 2019

With eight new franchises and plans to take its regular season on the road, the Overwatch League is opening its second year a few steps closer to its goal of becoming a truly...

February 14, 2019

NICOSIA, Cyprus — A court within the two British military bases in Cyprus has sentenced a Palestinian man to six months in prison after finding him guilty of trying to ...

February 14, 2019

OTTAWA — A high-school teacher who used a pen camera to surreptitiously take videos of female students is guilty of voyeurism, the Supreme Court of Canada has ruled.In a ...

February 14, 2019

SAUSALITO, Calif. — Waves of heavy rain pounded California on Thursday, trapping people in floodwaters, washing away a mountain highway, triggering a mudslide that destroyed ...

February 14, 2019

LONDON — British Prime Minister Theresa May suffered an embarrassing defeat by lawmakers Thursday in a vote that left her bid to secure a European Union divorce deal stuck ...

February 14, 2019

BEIRUT — U.S.-backed Syrian forces are clearing two villages in eastern Syria of remaining Islamic State militants who are hiding among the local population, and detaining ...

February 14, 2019

CULIACAN, Mexico — U.S. officials are hailing the conviction of Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman as a victory for the Mexican people, but in the drug lord's home state of Sinaloa, ...

February 14, 2019

VANCOUVER, Wash. — Health officials in southern Washington state say they have confirmed 53 cases of measles.The Columbian reports Clark County Public Health officials have ...

February 14, 2019

LONDON — A pregnant British teenager who ran away from Britain to join Islamic State extremists in Syria four years ago has said she wants to come back to London, but her ...

February 14, 2019

OKEECHOBEE, Fla. — Some students have difficulty trusting classmates outside their circle. Parents say interactions with school staff are more impersonal. Teachers worry that...