August 14, 2018

HARTFORD, Conn. — A onetime teen mother who became a celebrated teacher defeated a veteran politician Tuesday in the Democratic primary for a U.S. House seat currently held ...

August 14, 2018

MONTPELIER, Vt. — A former Vermont utility executive on Tuesday became the first transgender candidate from a major political party to be nominated for governor, and she'll ...

August 14, 2018

MONTPELIER, Vt. — Peter Welch, Vermont's lone representative in the U.S. House, on Tuesday won the Democratic nomination to seek re-election in November, when he'll face ...

August 14, 2018

HARTFORD, Conn. — Bob Stefanowski, a former GE executive who pitched himself to voters as Bob the Rebuilder, won Tuesday's Republican primary for Connecticut governor in an ...

August 14, 2018

HARTFORD, Conn. — Matthew Corey, a window washer and Hartford pub owner, won the Republican nomination for U.S. Senate in Connecticut on Tuesday and will face an uphill ...

August 14, 2018

MONTPELIER, Vt. — Independent U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders won Vermont's Democratic Senate primary on Tuesday but was expected to turn down the nomination, as he did in his ...

August 14, 2018

MEXICO CITY — Fancy a tarantula taco for a cool $27? Not so fast, Mexican authorities say.A Mexico City market restaurant recently put the arachnids on its menu and posted a ...

August 14, 2018

Cardi B may have backed out of the Bruno Mars tour, but he's found four other acts to hit the road with him.Mars announced Tuesday that Boyz II Men, Charlie Wilson, Ciara and...

August 14, 2018

Ontario's new Progressive Conservative government has announced new plans for how the province would sell recreational cannabis. Here's a look at provincial and territorial...

August 14, 2018

TORONTO — A day after announcing plans to sell recreational cannabis in private stores, the Ontario government said it was still working out how strict regulations governing ...

August 14, 2018

BANFF, Alta. — Parks Canada says two bison bulls have wandered out of Banff National Park — just a week after the herd became free-roaming animals.Officials said the bison ...

August 14, 2018

MONTREAL — Close friends and relatives of homicide victims can soon be compensated for costs associated with attending the killer's trial, Quebec's justice minister announced...

August 14, 2018

NEW YORK — Two laptops actress Sean Young was accused of stealing from a movie production company that had fired her were returned Tuesday after the new director urged her to...

August 14, 2018

TORONTO — The Ontario government passed a controversial bill to slash the size of Toronto city council on Tuesday, capping off a rare and tumultuous summer legislative ...

August 14, 2018

NEW YORK — Former White House aide Omarosa Manigault Newman declared that she "will not be silenced" by President Donald Trump, remaining defiant as her public feud with her ...

August 14, 2018

CONCEPTION BAY SOUTH, N.L. — The new federal fisheries minister is offering more details on the recent cancellation of a controversial surf clam fishing licence given to a ...

August 14, 2018

WASHINGTON — Keep your friends close and your enemies closer. And, perhaps, your potential leakers closer yet.President Donald Trump's political operation has made a regular ...

August 14, 2018

TORONTO — Members of Canada's Muslim community say recent tensions between Ottawa and Saudi Arabia are affecting some people's ability to perform what's seen in the faith as ...

August 14, 2018

A former Baltimore police officer was indicted on assault charges Tuesday after being recorded repeatedly punching a man in a street confrontation three days earlier in a ...

August 14, 2018

NEW YORK — The Latest on laptops actress Sean Young is accused of stealing (all times local):3:50 p.m.Two laptops actress Sean Young was accused of stealing from a movie ...

August 14, 2018

OTTAWA — Canada's police chiefs are urging Ottawa to beef up its fight against the scourge of opioids by more closely vetting people who import pill presses.In a resolution ...

August 14, 2018

Edmonton police have arrested a pharmacy worker accused of stealing 401,500 tablets of the prescription opioid painkiller Percocet.Investigators allege a 34-year-old women ...

August 14, 2018

HOUSTON — A Jordanian immigrant was sentenced to death on Tuesday after being convicted in what Texas prosecutors described as the honour killings of his daughter's American ...

August 14, 2018

OTTAWA — The federal government will begin phasing out the outdoor use of nicotine-based pesticides beginning in 2021, part of an effort to stem the mysterious decline of ...

August 14, 2018

FREDERICTON — Friends and acquaintances of Matthew Raymond are offering varying memories of the accused murderer: A boy who retreated into video games, a pleasant supermarket...

August 14, 2018

VICTORIA — An offer from Ontario to find a new home for a statue of Sir John A. Macdonald has been declined by the city of Victoria.Mayor Lisa Helps says the city is ...

August 14, 2018

SASKATOON — A Saskatchewan woman says she lost a finger after her ring got caught on a waterslide at one of the largest malls in North America.Claire Clark was celebrating ...

August 14, 2018

LANGLEY, B.C. — A Christian university in British Columbia will no longer require students to adhere to a covenant forbidding sex outside of heterosexual marriage.The board ...

August 14, 2018

MONTREAL — Bernard Trepanier, a former political fundraiser in Montreal and a central figure during Quebec's public inquiry into corruption in the construction sector, died ...

August 14, 2018

HALIFAX — Nova Scotia Power says an oil leak at its Tufts Cove generating station involved 19,300 more litres of oil than originally disclosed.The utility had previously said...

August 14, 2018

RENO, Nev. — A federal judge has thrown out a defamation suit a Western art collector filed against a prestigious auction house and the owner of a Reno gallery who claimed an...

August 14, 2018

ARDSLEY, N.Y. — Former New York City Ballet leader Peter Martins has been convicted of driving while impaired in the New York City suburbs.The Journal News reported on ...

August 14, 2018

OTTAWA — The federal Liberal government needs to make good on its promise to declare housing a "fundamental human right" under Canadian law as part of its forthcoming ...

August 14, 2018

BOGOTA — The exiled opposition leader accused by Venezuelan authorities of directing a failed plot to assassinate President Nicolas Maduro says the greatest threat to the ...

August 14, 2018

Los Angeles' subway will become the first mass transit system in the U.S. to install body scanners that screen passengers for weapons and explosives, officials said ...

August 14, 2018

NEW YORK — The latest efforts to disrupt the U.S. midterm elections through Facebook manipulation seem to be following a persuasion playbook refined by legitimate companies ...

August 14, 2018

MONTREAL — U.S. authorities are seeking to extradite a former Uber driver from San Francisco who was being investigated on rape charges before vanishing and then emerging in ...

August 14, 2018

WASHINGTON — A fund dedicated to aiding victims of sexual harassment and assault is giving $750,000 in grants to local organizations across the country.The Times Up Legal ...

August 14, 2018

OTTAWA — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will hole up with his newly shuffled cabinet for three days next week in Nanaimo, B.C.The retreat, scheduled for Aug. 21-23, marks the ...

August 14, 2018

OTTAWA — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will hole up with his newly shuffled cabinet for three days next week in Nanaimo, B.C. The retreat, scheduled for Aug. 21-23, marks...

August 14, 2018

TORONTO — The first posthumous track from Smoke Dawg, the rising Toronto rapper who was killed in a brazen shooting last June, has been posted online."No Discussion" features...

August 14, 2018

HOUSTON — The attorney taking on President Donald Trump over his alleged affair with an adult film actress went to immigration court Tuesday to try to secure the release of a...

August 14, 2018

THESSALONIKI, Greece — Two Greek soldiers freed after months in a Turkish prison returned to their home country by government jet early Wednesday after their unexpected ...

August 14, 2018

TORONTO — A man accused of killing an elderly stranger by shoving him in front of a Toronto subway train had his case put over to December after a brief court hearing on ...

August 14, 2018

London's famous, festering fatberg lives on — and is getting its own livestream .The Museum of London says a chunk of oil, fat, diapers and baby wipes blasted out of a sewer ...

August 14, 2018

TORONTO — A pair of Canadian student travellers bemoaning what appeared to be a routine delay aboard their train through Italy instead learned they were just minutes from a ...

August 14, 2018

TORONTO — Calgary, Vancouver, and Toronto have ranked among the top ten most liveable cities in the world in the latest ranking by the Economist Intelligence Unit.Vienna took...

August 14, 2018

NOBLESVILLE, Ind. — Authorities say a bomb threat is what prompted country group Rascal Flatts to abruptly end a concert in Indiana last week.The Hamilton County Sheriff's ...

August 14, 2018

FALLS CHURCH, Va. — A toddler has died after falling from a 24th-floor balcony at the same northern Virginia apartment complex where a 3-year-old fell from an open window and...

August 14, 2018

WASHINGTON — Michael Avenatti, the attorney taking on President Donald Trump on behalf of adult film star Stormy Daniels, offered some details on his policy views Tuesday as ...

August 14, 2018

SEATTLE — An iconic Seattle music venue that could've been slated for destruction has been given a temporary reprieveThe City Council voted 8-0 Monday to include the Showbox ...

August 14, 2018

CALGARY — A German tourist who can't talk or move his right side after he was shot in the head while driving in southern Alberta earlier this month is heading home.The German...

August 14, 2018

SANTIAGO, Chile — Chilean authorities raided the headquarters of the Catholic Church's Episcopal Conference on Tuesday as part of a widespread investigation into sex abuse ...

August 14, 2018

OTTAWA — Lawyers are getting closer to pinning down dates for the trial phase of a high-profile case involving Vice-Admiral Mark Norman, accused of leaking sensitive ...

August 14, 2018

SANTIAGO, Chile — A fire swept through a nursing home in southern Chile on Tuesday, killing 10 elderly women, officials said.Investigators were trying to determine the cause ...

August 14, 2018

QUITO, Ecuador — A bus apparently lost its brakes, then hit another vehicle at high speed and rolled over four times, killing at least 24 people and injuring 22 while ...

August 14, 2018

SAINT-SIMON, N.B. — There has been another crustacean caper on the East Coast.Police say thieves stole "a large quantity of lobster meat" in New Brunswick's Acadian Peninsula...

August 14, 2018

HALIFAX — Emera Inc. is pulling out of the troubled Cape Sharp Tidal turbine project in the Bay of Fundy.Nova Scotia Power's parent company announced its decision in a ...

August 14, 2018

TAOS, N.M. — A judge's decision to allow the release of an extended family accused of child abuse at a ramshackle desert compound in New Mexico prompted a political uproar ...

August 14, 2018

PINEVILLE, N.C. — A manager at an office supply store in North Carolina has been fired after a pregnant woman shopping there was confronted about what she was concealing ...

August 14, 2018

COPENHAGEN — Masked youths torched dozens of cars overnight in Sweden and threw rocks at police, prompting an angry response from the prime minister, who denounced an "...

August 14, 2018

WASHINGTON — Donald Trump's inaugural committee pushed back hard last summer on questions about whether the unprecedented $107 million budget for the event was fraught with ...

August 14, 2018

NEWCASTLE, Australia — The most senior Roman Catholic cleric convicted of covering up child sex abuse was ordered by an Australian court Tuesday to serve his 1-year sentence ...

August 14, 2018

HONG KONG — A Hong Kong pro-independence activist decried Beijing's rule over the city as modern-day colonialism in a speech Tuesday to a foreign journalists' association ...

August 14, 2018

BEIJING — China blamed "anti-China forces" on Tuesday for the growing criticism of Beijing's policies in a far western region where large groups of ethnic Uighurs are being ...

August 14, 2018

CLEARWATER, Fla. — A Florida judge on Tuesday kept bond at $100,000 for a man charged with manslaughter in the fatal shooting of a man who assaulted him outside a convenience...

August 14, 2018

HARRISBURG, Pa. — Hundreds of Roman Catholic priests in Pennsylvania molested more than 1,000 children — and possibly many more — since the 1940s, and senior church officials...

August 14, 2018

WASHINGTON — The Latest on former White House aide Omarosa Manigault Newman (all times local):3:35 p.m.White House spokeswoman Sarah Huckabee Sanders says she cannot ...

August 14, 2018

MILAN — A 51-year-old highway bridge in the Italian port city of Genoa collapsed in a driving rain Tuesday, killing at least 26 people and injuring 15 others as it sent ...

August 14, 2018

HALIFAX — A Halifax man convicted of strangling an off-duty police officer and using a compost bin to dispose of her body will spend at least 13 and a half years in prison, a...

August 14, 2018

FREDERICTON — Residents of the Fredericton apartment complex that was the scene of Friday's deadly shooting spree are being allowed back into their homes, but many are ...