July 10, 2020

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump on Friday commuted the sentence of his longtime political confidant Roger Stone, intervening in extraordinary fashion in a criminal case ...

July 10, 2020

WASHINGTON — Determined to proceed with the first federal execution in nearly two decades, the Justice Department plans to appeal a judge’s ruling that would halt authorities...

July 10, 2020

Executives from three of Canada's largest grocery chains were in communication before launchingand ending temporary wage increases for grocery store workers during COVID-19, ...

July 10, 2020

Singer Anita White, who was sued by a country group over the use of the name Lady A, says the group is using their white privilege against her.The band, who had previously ...

July 10, 2020

CALGARY — A class-action lawsuit has been filed against Cargill Ltd. that claims the meat-packing company failed to take reasonable precautions to protect its workers in ...

July 10, 2020

ATLANTA — A funeral is scheduled next week for an 8-year-old girl who was shot on the Fourth of July near one of Atlanta's flash points for protests against police ...

July 10, 2020

MONTREAL — Quebec's arts scene is being rocked by a wave of sexual assault and harassment allegations against well-known figures in the province's entertainment ...

July 10, 2020

ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia — Ethiopia’s attorney general says two people have been arrested and a third is on the run after the shooting death of a popular singer that set off ...

July 10, 2020

NASHVILLE — The Dixie Chicks are no more. Breaking their ties to the South, The Chicks are stepping into a new chapter in their storied career with their first new music in ...

July 10, 2020

EDMONTON — Four years after its flames guttered out, the record-breaking Fort McMurray wildfire continues to astound — this time with its lasting impact on an extensive ...

July 10, 2020

WASHINGTON — A Canadian cabinet minister was among the guests waiting in the virtual wings of a recent Zoom panel when the moderator posed one last question to the chairman ...

July 10, 2020

IQALUIT, Nunavut — Tests for what would have been Nunavut's first case of COVID-19 have come back negative.The territory's chief public health officer, Dr. Michael Patterson,...

July 10, 2020

OTTAWA — Calls for independent review of the Liberal government giving a sole-source contract to the WE organization intensified Friday with the Conservatives demanding ...

July 10, 2020

OTTAWA — Federal employees stand to collect up to $2,500 each in cash payments for "pain and suffering" resulting from the government's failed Phoenix pay system under an ...

July 10, 2020

MADISON, Wis. — The conservative-controlled Wisconsin Supreme Court on Friday overturned three of four partial budget vetoes issued by Democratic Gov. Tony Evers, bucking 85 ...

July 10, 2020

ANKARA, Turkey — The president of Turkey on Friday formally converted Istanbul’s sixth-century Hagia Sophia back into a mosque and declared it open for Muslim worship, hours ...

July 10, 2020

OTTAWA — A Black man from Ottawa says he wants to hear the full recording of a 911 call made about him by a white woman, after police apologized for their role in the ...

July 10, 2020

WASHINGTON — U.S. wholesale prices fell 0.2% in June as food costs dropped sharply, offsetting a big increase in energy prices.The drop in the Producer Price Index, which ...

July 10, 2020

THE HAGUE, Netherlands — The Dutch government is taking Russia to the European Court of Human Rights for its alleged role in the shooting down of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 ...

July 10, 2020

LONDON — World War II-era aircraft flew over the late singer Vera Lynn’s village in southeastern England on Friday, offering a final tribute to the "Forces’ Sweetheart" who ...

July 10, 2020

Authorities planned Friday to renew the search for "Glee" star Naya Rivera, who is believed to have drowned in a Southern California lake while boating with her 4-year-old ...

July 10, 2020

LONDON — Johnny Depp said in a London court on Friday that he was left embittered by ex-wife Amber Heard's claims he abused her, which turned him from "Cinderella to ...

July 10, 2020

LEVIS, Que. — Police are continuing their search around a Quebec City suburb after they issued an Amber Alert Thursday for two young girls and their 44-year-old father who ...

July 10, 2020

When Alain Babineau was a police academy cadet nearly 30 years ago, the education his cohort received on diversity and racism amounted to a few basic lectures with little in ...

July 10, 2020

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia — Malaysian police grilled a group of reporters and staff from news broadcaster Al Jazeera on Friday over a documentary on the treatment of ...

July 10, 2020

In The News is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to kickstart your day. Here is what's on the radar of our editors for the morning of July 10 ...What we ...

July 10, 2020

OTTAWA — Canadian troops have been forced to hitch a ride with the British military to get to and from Latvia due to a shortage of working planes.Canada has 540 troops in ...

July 10, 2020

OTTAWA — In a split decision, the Supreme Court of Canada has upheld a federal law that forbids companies to make people undergo genetic testing before buying insurance or ...

July 10, 2020

The latest numbers of confirmed COVID-19 cases in Canada as of 6:10 p.m. on July 10, 2020:There are 107,125 confirmed cases in Canada._ Quebec: 56,316 confirmed (including ...

July 10, 2020

OTTAWA — Nearly one million more Canadians had jobs in June than a month earlier, Statistics Canada says, as businesses forced to close by the pandemic began to reopen and ...

July 9, 2020

SEOUL, Korea, Republic Of — The sudden death of Seoul’s mayor, reportedly implicated in a sexual harassment complaint, has prompted an outpouring of public sympathy even as ...

July 9, 2020

Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong's long-governing party comfortably won Friday's general elections as expected amid the coronavirus pandemic, but faced a setback as ...

July 9, 2020

LA PAZ, Bolivia — Bolivia’s interim president and Venezuela’s No. 2 leader announced Thursday that they have been infected with the new coronavirus, just days after Brazil’s ...

July 9, 2020

CARACAS, Venezuela — Venezuelan socialist party chief Diosdado Cabello has announced that he is sick with COVID-19.The man considered the second-most powerful person in ...

July 9, 2020

NEW YORK — A Canadian fashion mogul is asking a U.S. court to dismiss a class-action lawsuit alleging he sexually assaulted dozens of women.Peter Nygard's motion filed ...

July 9, 2020

NEW YORK — The Supreme Court ruled on Thursday that Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus R. Vance, Jr. can obtain President Donald Trump's tax returns for a criminal ...

July 9, 2020

MONTREAL — A Montreal man has been arrested in relation to a highway pileup north of the city last summer that left four people dead and injured 15 others.Quebec provincial ...

July 9, 2020

VANCOUVER — Reputed gang leader Jamie Bacon pleaded guilty Thursday to a charge stemming from shootings in 2007 that left six people dead at a highrise apartment building in ...

July 9, 2020

OTTAWA — North Atlantic right whales are now considered one step away from complete eradication.The International Union for Conservation of Nature is moving the whales from "...

July 9, 2020

MIAMI — Tropical Storm Fay, the sixth named storm of the Atlantic hurricane season, began to edge away from the North Carolina coast Thursday evening, its sights set on the ...

July 9, 2020

VICTORIA — A former judge investigating allegations of racism towards Indigenous people in British Columbia's health-care system is calling on patients, families, doctors ...

July 9, 2020

OTTAWA — The WE organization has paid hundreds of thousands of dollars in speaking fees to members of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's family, it acknowledged Thursday, as ...

July 9, 2020

OTTAWA — The Liberal government is updating a legal definition of "parent" to make it easier for some parents to pass their Canadian citizenship onto their ...

July 9, 2020

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — Federal officials were so worried Jeffrey Epstein’s longtime confidant Ghislaine Maxwell might take her own life after her arrest that they took away her ...

July 9, 2020

WASHINGTON — Donald Trump's trade ambassador continued to keep Canada's steel and aluminum industry in suspense Thursday as trade experts, labour bosses and business leaders ...

July 9, 2020

NICOSIA, Cyprus — Cyprus said it plans to transition to cleaner and cheaper natural gas for energy generation in two years as work officially began Thursday to build the east...

July 9, 2020

MOUNT JULIET, Tenn. — Country Music Hall of Fame musician Charlie Daniels received military honours at a memorial service in Tennessee on Wednesday night.The country music ...

July 9, 2020

NEW YORK — President Donald Trump’s former personal lawyer and fixer, Michael Cohen, was returned to federal prison Thursday, after balking at certain conditions of the home ...

July 9, 2020

OTTAWA — The litany of racial slurs inserted into the comments section of an online Conservative leadership debate Wednesday was not surprising, candidate Leslyn Lewis said ...

July 9, 2020

DALTON, Minn. — Powerful tornadoes that ripped across farmland in western Minnesota, killing one person and injuring two others, could have exacted a higher death toll if the...

July 9, 2020

SILVER SPRING, Md. — A Maryland woman accused of starving her 15-month-old daughter for more than three weeks has been charged with first-degree murder in the toddler’s death...

July 9, 2020

EDMONTON — One of five women who was sexually assaulted by a former nightclub employee says she wasn't able to talk about the attack for four years."I vowed myself to silence...

July 9, 2020

LOS ANGELES — Authorities believe rising rapper Pop Smoke was shot and killed during a Los Angeles home-invasion robbery in February after his social media posts led five ...

July 9, 2020

TORONTO — Questions over whether thousands of international students could be deported from the U.S. under a new Trump administration policy are causing consternation among ...

July 9, 2020

OTTAWA — Canada has joined an international group of nearly two dozen other countries working to protect the world's oceans.The Global Ocean Alliance, founded by Great ...

July 9, 2020

MONTREAL — Construction materials giant Lafarge Canada says it has fired an employee after a discriminatory and hateful act took place at a Montreal work site.The company ...

July 9, 2020

RIO RANCHO, N.M. — A rare collection of previously unissued recordings by legendary jazz saxophonist Cannonball Adderley is becoming more accessible thanks to two small jazz ...

July 9, 2020

OTTAWA — Canada is ill-prepared for a second wave of COVID-19, says a Senate committee, calling on the federal Liberals to deliver a plan by Labour Day to help people and ...

July 9, 2020

WASHINGTON — Rejecting President Donald Trump’s complaints that he's being harassed, the Supreme Court ruled Thursday in favour of a New York prosecutor’s demands for the ...

July 9, 2020

INDIANAPOLIS — An Indiana woman was charged Thursday in a hit-and-run crash that sent one woman to the hospital and caused minor injuries to a man during a southern Indiana ...

July 9, 2020

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court ruled Thursday that a large chunk of eastern Oklahoma remains an American Indian reservation, a decision that state and federal officials have ...

July 9, 2020

Author Ann M. Martin had no master plan when she decided to make one of the core members of "The Baby-Sitters Club" a Japanese American girl named Claudia.Claudia Kishi ...

July 9, 2020

LONDON — Johnny Depp said Thursday that his relationship with Amber Heard was "a crime scene waiting to happen," but denied assaulting her during a drug-fueled rampage in ...

July 9, 2020

MADISON, Wis. — The conservative-controlled Wisconsin Supreme Court on Thursday upheld Republican-authored lame-duck laws that stripped power from the incoming Democratic ...

July 9, 2020

SEOUL, Korea, Republic Of — The missing mayor of South Korea’s capital, reportedly embroiled in sexual harassment allegations, was found dead early Friday, more than half a ...

July 9, 2020

FREDERICTON — Indigenous leaders in New Brunswick say they are losing faith in Premier Blaine Higgs and his provincial government after a second meeting failed to produce an ...

July 9, 2020

In The News is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to kickstart your day. Here is what's on the radar of our editors for the morning of July 9 ... What ...

July 9, 2020

An emergency dispatcher picks up a call from a mother who says her adult son is angry and breaking things at home, but he may not react well to police officers.In most cities...

July 9, 2020

An astonishing trove of century-old photographs of the Rocky Mountains shows those rugged symbols of permanence and endurance are just as mutable as anything else."Almost all...

July 9, 2020

The latest numbers of confirmed COVID-19 cases in Canada as of 6:18 p.m. on July 9, 2020:There are 106,805 confirmed cases in Canada._ Quebec: 56,216 confirmed (including ...

July 9, 2020

LOS ANGELES — Authorities were searching a Southern California lake Thursday for "Glee" star Naya Rivera a day after her 4-year-old son was found alone on a rented boat.More ...