June 15, 2019

NEW YORK — Taylor Swift made a surprise performance at an iconic gay bar a day after releasing a song supporting the LGBTQ community.Swift celebrated Pride Month by appearing...

June 15, 2019

MOGADISHU, Somalia — A pair of explosions rocked Somalia's capital and left 11 people dead, the country's police chief said Saturday, as the al-Qaida-linked extremist group ...

June 15, 2019

MONTREAL — A Montreal-based tenants' rights group is leading a demonstration this afternoon in the city's Cote-des-Neiges neighbourhood to protest a housing shortage, which ...

June 15, 2019

MERIDIAN, Miss. — Five more members have been added to a hall of fame that honours the arts and entertainment in Mississippi.The Mississippi Arts + Entertainment Experience ...

June 15, 2019

ST. LOUIS — After a half-century of disappointment, even Mother Nature didn't dare spoil the celebration of St. Louis' first-ever Stanley Cup championship.A morning downpour ...

June 15, 2019

URBANA, Ill. — An exhibit of unique typewriters, including one used by the founder of Playboy, will open later this month at the University of Illinois.The university's Rare ...

June 15, 2019

ROME — Italian director Franco Zeffirelli, who delighted audiences around the world with his romantic vision and extravagant productions, most famously captured in his ...

June 15, 2019

NAIROBI, Kenya — At least 10 Kenyan police officers died after their vehicle struck an improvised explosive device near the Somali border in a suspected extremist attack on ...

June 15, 2019

VICTORIA — A 20-centimetre tarantula capable of killing a bird has been filmed at its most vulnerable state shedding its armour-like exoskelton at a Victoria-area tropical ...

June 15, 2019

TORONTO — Two winning tickets were sold for the $19 million jackpot in Friday night's Lotto Max draw.One of them was purchased on the Prairies and the other in Ontario.Each ...

June 14, 2019

ATLANTA — Grammy-nominated rapper 21 Savage has given $25,000 to the Southern Poverty Law Center after the watchdog organization helped him while he was in federal ...

June 14, 2019

PEORIA, Ill. — Jurors in a federal death-penalty trial heard secretly recorded audio Friday in which a former University of Illinois doctoral student describes to his ...

June 14, 2019

VAUGHAN, Ont. — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says the federal government is committed to issuing a formal apology to Italian Canadians mistreated in the country during the ...

June 14, 2019

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — Authorities on Friday night said they've arrested an Arkansas woman in connection with the killing of a former state senator who was found dead outside ...

June 14, 2019

OTTAWA — The Telegraph-Journal in New Brunswick has been named the winner of the 2018 Michener Award, which honours excellence in public-service journalism.The Saint ...

June 14, 2019

FORT MCMURRAY, Alta. — There was stony silence followed by tears Friday as a Mountie was found not guilty of dangerous driving causing death of a man near Fort McMurray, ...

June 14, 2019

New York City police say a 29-year-old officer died Friday in the department's third suspected suicide in less than two weeks.Police say he shot himself in the head around 3:...

June 14, 2019

Uncertainty over a Boeing jet and apprehension about the global economy hover over the aircraft industry as it prepares for next week's Paris Air Show.That show and its ...

June 14, 2019

MONTREAL — A Montreal man who was facing charges of inciting hatred online against Jews has been found not criminally responsible due to mental illness but will have to abide...

June 14, 2019

OTTAWA — The federal New Democrats have been looking for a boost and they're hoping to get that on Sunday, when leader Jagmeet Singh presents the party's policy vision for ...

June 14, 2019

EVERETT, Wash. — Jurors in Washington state on Friday heard about the mysterious final days of a young Canadian couple killed in 1987 — as well as the novel method ...

June 14, 2019

As mass protests in Hong Kong grab headlines around the world, expatriate Canadians living in the former British colony say the demonstrations have been intense -- and are ...

June 14, 2019

OTTAWA — For now, he's going to Washington to meet President Donald Trump, but Canadian business leaders say Prime Minister Justin Trudeau should be talking to Democratic ...

June 14, 2019

LOS ANGELES — Nick Cannon is coming to radio.Meruelo Media on Friday announced the rapper, comedian and actor is joining Los Angeles hip-hop radio station Power 106 as host ...

June 14, 2019

LOS ANGELES — Ask Marta Kauffman if there will be a "Friends" reunion someday, and the answer is a crisp "nope."Kauffman, who created the enduringly popular sitcom with David...

June 14, 2019

OTTAWA — Canada Post is proposing to raise the prices of stamps ever-so-slightly next year. The federal corporation says it is looking to increase the price of stamps two...

June 14, 2019

OTTAWA — Federal party leaders must ensure three pieces of legislation of "fundamental importance" to Indigenous Peoples and the country pass before the election, says ...

June 14, 2019

BERLIN — The director of Berlin's Jewish Museum is stepping down following strong criticism of the museum's leadership by Germany's Jewish community.A statement Friday said ...

June 14, 2019

NEW YORK — Naomi Wolf's U.S. publisher is postponing the release of her new book, "Outrages," after a BBC interviewer challenged some of her findings. Wolf is openly ...

June 14, 2019

OTTAWA — Environment Minister Catherine McKenna is hinting that the upcoming Liberal election platform will promise deeper cuts to greenhouse-gas emissions, including the ...

June 14, 2019

TORONTO — The Liberals hope to address the criminalization of HIV non-disclosure if re-elected in the fall, the federal justice minister said Friday as advocacy groups pushed...

June 14, 2019

PROVIDENCE, R.I. — A helicopter pilot who heads a military command in Guam will be the first female leader of the U.S. Naval War College, the Navy announced Friday, days ...

June 14, 2019

OTTAWA — The Canadian Forces' peacekeeping mission in Mali is going to last a little longer than previously planned — but not as long as the United Nations hoped.Canada's ...

June 14, 2019

Quebec Premier Francois Legault apologized Friday to a whistleblower who was fired after going public with concerns about the pesticide industry's influence on public ...

June 14, 2019

WASHINGTON — Reality star-turned-criminal justice reform advocate Kim Kardashian West returned to the White House on Thursday to help President Donald Trump promote efforts ...

June 14, 2019

MONTREAL — Quebecers are regaining a sense of pride now that the government is set to force through a secularism bill that bans many public sector workers from wearing ...

June 14, 2019

WALHALLA, S.C. — A South Carolina woman who police say was driving drunk will not be cited with a DUI because her vehicle of choice was a toy truck.News outlets quote police ...

June 14, 2019

TOPEKA, Kan. — Kansas' highest court declared Friday that the state finally is spending enough money on its public schools under a new education funding law but refused to ...

June 14, 2019

NEW YORK — Coinciding with Pride Month, the Discovery Family cartoon series "My Little Pony" has introduced a same-sex couple on the show for the first time.Writer-producer ...

June 14, 2019

NEW YORK — The New Yorker's Ronan Farrow sure knows how to get a media crowd buzzing.The Pulitzer Prize winner accepted a Mirror Award for media reporting from Syracuse ...

June 14, 2019

PHILADELPHIA — Lew Klein, a broadcast pioneer who helped create "American Bandstand" and launched the careers of Dick Clark and Bob Saget, has died. He was 91.Klein died ...

June 14, 2019

LOS ANGELES — A judge on Thursday issued a five-year restraining order forbidding Britney Spears' former manager from contacting the singer or her family or making ...

June 14, 2019

VISTA, Calif. — Former pro football player Kellen Winslow Jr. will be retried after a jury convicted him of raping a homeless woman but failed to agree on eight other ...

June 14, 2019

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump says his wife, first lady Melania Trump, is an icon on the same order of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis.Trump made the comparison Friday as he...

June 14, 2019

NEW YORK — Taylor Swift's latest song has a new target: homophobes.Coinciding with the announcement of her seventh album, "Lover," the pop star on Thursday released a new ...

June 14, 2019

OTTAWA — A government-struck expert panel is calling for new "super-deduction" tax credits to encourage Canadians to put their retirement savings into climate-conscious ...

June 14, 2019

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump has blamed Iran for attacks on oil tankers near the strategic Strait of Hormuz, but he also held out hope that implicit U.S. threats to ...

June 14, 2019

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump shifted gears Friday on election interference, saying "of course" he would go to the FBI or the attorney general if a foreign power ...

June 14, 2019

OTTAWA — "Hard to trust the Liberal lapdogs at Elections Canada, who let Liberals-SNC off the $100K donation scam and has paid influencers to intervene in the campaign." — ...

June 14, 2019

SEOUL, Korea, Republic Of — The founder of one of the most successful K-Pop music agencies stepped down on Friday amid accusations that he tried to cover up alleged drug use ...

June 14, 2019

OTTAWA — A new poll suggests the federal Liberals have stopped the bleeding from the beating they took in the SNC-Lavalin furor.The Leger poll suggests the Liberals have ...

June 14, 2019

ENGLEWOOD, Colo. — Pat Bowlen, the Denver Broncos owner who transformed the team from also-rans into NFL champions and helped the league usher in billion-dollar TV deals, has...

June 14, 2019

ST. JOHN'S, N.L. — The city of St. John's, known for its seafaring roots, is commemorating its aviation history today, 100 years to the day after two young British war ...

June 14, 2019

OTTAWA — Immigration Minister Ahmed Hussen says 11 communities the federal government is choosing for a new rural immigration program will gain new workers and citizens that ...

June 14, 2019

NEW YORK — Missy Elliott, the creative mastermind who has written hit songs for a number of female acts and created camaraderie among women in the music industry for more ...

June 13, 2019

OAKLAND, Calif. — The Toronto Raptors won their first-ever National Basketball Association championship on Thursday night. Kyle Lowry and Pascal Siakam scored 26 points ...

June 13, 2019

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — The U.S. military released a video Friday it said showed Iran's Revolutionary Guard removing an unexploded limpet mine from one of the oil ...

June 13, 2019

LOS ANGELES — The Latest on a court hearing on a restraining order taken out in the name of Britney Spears against her former manager (all times local):4:50 p.m.A judge has ...

June 13, 2019

GRAY, Ga. — Authorities say a 5-year-old shot a 2-year-old sibling at a Georgia home while playing with a gun and now the children's uncle has been charged.News outlets ...

June 13, 2019

LETHBRIDGE, Alta. — A pediatric critical care specialist says the results of a CT scan on the brain of a boy whose parents are on trial in his death was one of the "most ...

June 13, 2019

WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. — A former day labourer accused of bludgeoning a socialite to death at her family's suburban New York estate has been sentenced to 22 years to life in ...

June 13, 2019

NEW YORK — Emails filed in an ongoing lawsuit show novelist Nicholas Sparks chastised a former headmaster at the private Christian school in North Carolina he runs for ...

June 13, 2019

OTTAWA — Protests raging in Hong Kong are threatening to become yet another irritant in Canada's fraught relationship with China.China's embassy in Canada on Thursday ...

June 13, 2019

CLEVELAND — In a story June 13 about a $33 million jury award in a lawsuit against Oberlin College, The Associated Press reported erroneously that David Gibson and his son, ...

June 13, 2019

OTTAWA — A bill that aims to end solitary confinement has passed in the Senate with a number of amendments — changes a large group of lawyers and law societies say are ...

June 13, 2019

EDMONTON — A man convicted for his role in the shooting deaths of four Mounties in rural Alberta is no longer subject to parole conditions.Shawn Hennessey pleaded guilty to ...

June 13, 2019

The Top 20 Global Concert Tours ranks artists by average box office gross per city and includes the average ticket price for shows Worldwide. The list is based on data ...

June 13, 2019

WASHINGTON — White House press secretary Sarah Sanders, whose tenure was marked by a breakdown in regular press briefings and questions about the administration's credibility...

June 13, 2019

OTTAWA — MPs on the House of Commons health committee heard grave concerns Thursday about ongoing sterilizations of Indigenous women without their consent — an issue also ...

June 13, 2019

NEW YORK — The Latest on Cuba Gooding Jr.'s arrest (all times local):7:30 p.m.Cuba Gooding Jr. has pleaded not guilty to forcible touching and sexual abuse after a woman ...

June 13, 2019

Ottawa plans to impose the federal carbon tax on Alberta starting Jan. 1 and federal Environment Minister Catherine McKenna says she has written the province about the ...