October 18, 2018

SINGAPORE — U.S. officials say they sense that relations with the Chinese military, after a rocky few months, may be stabilizing, although face-to-face talks between their ...

October 18, 2018

OTTAWA — "We expect the CPPIB, like other Crown corporations, to live up to the highest standards of ethics and behaviour and that is, in fact, exactly what it is doing." — ...

October 18, 2018

OTTAWA — Canada's top general is overhauling military morale-boosting tours after an internal investigation uncovered the extent of the problems with a 2017 trip to Latvia ...

October 18, 2018

SOUTH GLENGARRY, Ont. — Police say a Nova Scotia man has been charged with first-degree murder in the death of a woman from eastern Ontario.Ontario Provincial Police say 26-...

October 18, 2018

Five stories in the news for Thursday, Oct. 18———SOME POT SMOKERS STILL PREFER BLACK MARKETA short drive away from British Columbia's first and only legal marijuana store, ...

October 18, 2018

KAMLOOPS, B.C. — A short drive away from British Columbia's first and only legal marijuana store, Bill Semeniuk inhaled deeply from a joint outside an illegal cannabis ...

October 18, 2018

CALGARY — A jury is expected to begin deliberating today about whether a Calgary couple is responsible for their 14-month-old son's death.Jennifer and Jeromie Clark have ...

October 18, 2018

REGINA — Gov. Gen. Julie Payette is to make her first official visit to Saskatchewan today and take in a Humboldt Broncos hockey game this weekend.Payette is to meet with ...

October 17, 2018

HUNTSVILLE, Texas — Former USA Gymnastics president Steve Penny was arrested Wednesday after a Texas grand jury indicted him, alleging he tampered with evidence in the sexual...

October 17, 2018

TOKYO — Japan recorded a trade surplus for September of 139.6 billion yen ($1.2 billion), but exports fell 1.2 per cent from the previous year in the first decline for the ...

October 17, 2018

VICTORIA — Two people have been charged after British Columbia's Conservation Officer Service says they posted photos of themselves on social media hand feeding Timbits and...

October 17, 2018

KITIMAT, B.C. — Canada's natural resources minister says the environment and the economy go hand-in-hand after he toured the site of a new liquefied natural gas venture in ...

October 17, 2018

JUNEAU, Alaska — Some supporters of Alaska Gov. Bill Walker struggled Wednesday to understand the abrupt resignation of Walker's lieutenant governor and what that means for ...

October 17, 2018

SEATTLE — More than two dozen countries have relaxed their marijuana or other drug laws, and a number could consider legalizing in the not-too-distant future. The South ...

October 17, 2018

NEW YORK — Ebay filed a lawsuit against Amazon Wednesday, saying the online retail giant used eBay's messaging system to steal its sellers.In the lawsuit, eBay said Amazon ...

October 17, 2018

LOS ANGELES — "Orange Is the New Black" is fading to black after its upcoming seventh season.Cast members posted a video Wednesday announcing the series' 2019 end, which was ...

October 17, 2018

ORLANDO, Fla. — Tens of thousands of Teamsters members earlier this month rejected a five-year contract agreement with United Parcel Service, unhappy with a proposal to ...

October 17, 2018

WINNIPEG — The leader of Manitoba's Opposition has called for an inquest into the death of an Indigenous man who died during a 10-hour bus trip for a medical ...

October 17, 2018

RICHMOND, Va. — The Latest on a former Virginia high school teacher charged in a hacking scheme that allowed him and others to obtain nude photographs of celebrities and ...

October 17, 2018

QUEBEC — The 10 members elected Oct. 1 for the sovereigntist left-wing party Quebec solidaire refused to swear allegiance to the Queen publicly Wednesday as they made their ...

October 17, 2018

CALGARY — There's a "seller's market" for attractive assets like those held by its Canadian subsidiary, the CEO of Kinder Morgan Inc. said on a conference call Wednesday to ...

October 17, 2018

Ottawa Mayor Jim Watson is the target of a test legal case that could prompt politicians all across the country to reconsider their use of social media.Three city residents ...

October 17, 2018

MONTREAL — Marijuana smoke wafted through the heart of Montreal's downtown shopping district Wednesday as hundreds of people lined up to purchase legal cannabis for the first...

October 17, 2018

TORONTO — As tens of thousand of Ontarians purchased cannabis through a government website on Wednesday, some users in Toronto preferred getting their pot from unlicensed ...

October 17, 2018

OXFORD, N.S. — Emergency management officials say the area around a Nova Scotia town's sinkhole remains unsafe, three months after it first appeared in a local park.The ...

October 17, 2018

NEW YORK — The sexual assault case against Harvey Weinstein was roiled Wednesday for the second time in a week by what New York City prosecutors said was a police detective's...

October 17, 2018

RICHMOND, Va. — A former Virginia high school teacher has agreed to plead guilty in a hacking scheme that allowed him to obtain nude photographs and other private information...

October 17, 2018

OTTAWA — Canada's shift to a legal cannabis regime is just the first of what the government says are several steps to come, from regulating edibles to training more drug ...

October 17, 2018

PASADENA, Calif. — Chaka Khan has been named grand marshal of the 2019 Rose Parade, which will feature the theme, "The Melody of Life."Tournament of Roses President Gerald ...

October 17, 2018

BALTIMORE — The leadership of Baltimore's police union isn't laughing at a "Saturday Night Live" skit.Over the weekend, the NBC comedy show featured a skit where female ...

October 17, 2018

NORFOLK, Va. — A California-based startup said Wednesday that it will rocket small satellites into orbit from Virginia, an endeavour that reflects increasing demand from ...

October 17, 2018

WINNIPEG — A Manitoba government backbencher who made inappropriate comments to a female staff member says he is going on medical leave and will not seek re-election.Cliff ...

October 17, 2018

VICTORIA, Texas — A man convicted of torching a South Texas mosque last year has been sentenced to more than 24 years in prison.Marq Vincent Perez was sentenced Wednesday ...

October 17, 2018

WASHINGTON — Federal Reserve officials last month debated how high they should raise interest rates to achieve their economic goals, with some arguing that they might need to...

October 17, 2018

CALGARY — A spokesman for the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board says it is not yet interested in making direct investments in Canada's newly legalized recreational ...

October 17, 2018

A chronology of events in the case of convicted rapist and killer Paul Bernardo:1991June 15 - Leslie Mahaffy, 14, disappears from outside her home in Burlington, Ont., in the...

October 17, 2018

SALEM, Mass. — A Massachusetts man who police dubbed the "Brazen Botanist" after he was captured on a surveillance camera stealing plants from a porch has pleaded guilty.The ...

October 17, 2018

NEW YORK — The 10.5 million people who tuned in to ABC to watch the premiere of ABC's sitcom "The Conners" is a classic half-full, half-empty story.It was the first time the ...

October 17, 2018

A former biker-gang hit man turned informant whose testimony brought down Hells Angels boss Maurice (Mom) Boucher has been granted escorted leaves from prison.The Parole ...

October 17, 2018

LONDON, Ont. — An Ontario animal trainer says five rescued cats got the star treatment on the set of an upcoming adaptation of Stephen King's "Pet Sematary."Melissa Millett, ...

October 17, 2018

HALIFAX — A Nova Scotia student trying to raise awareness about sexual assault-related issues is hoping university students across Canada will don teal ribbons on ...

October 17, 2018

OTTAWA — Canada's new asbestos ban will not prevent companies in Quebec from sifting through the waste left over from decades of mining asbestos to look for ...

October 17, 2018

ISLAMABAD — Pakistani police say the sons of a suspected drug dealer arrested in the country's northwest have killed a local reporter who wrote about their father's ...

October 17, 2018

FREDERICTON — The two men battling to be New Brunswick premier held a rare meeting Wednesday, but Tory Leader Blaine Higgs says it did nothing to convince him to offer any ...

October 17, 2018

GREENBELT, Md. — An investment adviser was convicted Wednesday of charges she defrauded investors out of millions of dollars, some of which she used to pay more than $800,000...

October 17, 2018

NEW YORK — CBS News says a Secret Service agent blocked one of its correspondents from asking Jared Kushner a question when he was walking out of an airplane, saying there ...

October 17, 2018

NEWPORT BEACH, Calif. — A California surgeon and his girlfriend were charged Wednesday with crimes against five additional victims in addition to two women they were ...

October 17, 2018

CAMEROON, Cameroon — U.N. special envoy Staffan de Mistura said Wednesday that he will make a final effort before stepping down next month to advance toward a new ...

October 17, 2018

NEW YORK — Former prime minister Brian Mulroney is joining the board of directors of an American cannabis company.Acreage Holdings, one of the largest vertically integrated ...

October 17, 2018

MEXICO BEACH, Fla. — With stunned faces and tears, residents of hard-hit Mexico Beach returned home for the first time Wednesday about a week after Hurricane Michael hit to ...

October 17, 2018

WASHINGTON — They're asking pastors to text their congregants about the importance of voting. They're connecting with thousands of Puerto Ricans displaced by Hurricane Maria....

October 17, 2018

BEIJING — The director of "Air Strike," featuring Chinese actress Fan Bingbing, says the film's release has been cancelled in the wake of her disappearance and conviction on ...

October 17, 2018

YouTube's video streaming service went out for more than an hour on Tuesday, apparently affecting locations around the world.YouTube acknowledged the outage in a tweet at 9:...

October 17, 2018

LONDON — Julian Assange: Hacker. Journalist. Diplomat?Newly released Ecuadorean government documents have laid bare an unorthodox attempt to extricate the WikiLeaks founder ...

October 17, 2018

GASTONIA, N.C. — A franchise owner of a North Carolina Wendy's says an employee who called a customer "Chubby" on an order has been fired.News outlets report the Carolina ...

October 17, 2018

BAGHDAD — Every Sunday in Iraq, along a strip of embankment on the Tigris River reserved for followers of the obscure and ancient Mandaean faith, worshippers bathe themselves...

October 17, 2018

CHIQUIMULA, Guatemala — More than 2,000 Honduran migrants travelling en masse through Guatemala resumed their journey toward the United States on Wednesday as U.S. President ...

October 17, 2018

VATICAN CITY — South Korea's president thanked Pope Francis for promoting peace and dialogue as he arrived in Italy for a papal audience, where he's expected to extend an ...

October 17, 2018

SRINAGAR, India — Anti-India protests and clashes erupted in the main city in disputed Kashmir on Wednesday after a gunbattle between militants and government forces killed ...

October 17, 2018

SEOUL, Korea, Republic Of — Relatives dressed in black wept in grief Wednesday as the bodies of five South Korean mountain climbers arrived home from Nepal where they died in...

October 17, 2018

NEW DELHI — M.J. Akbar, India's junior external affairs minister, resigned Wednesday amid accusations by 20 women of sexual harassment during his previous career as one of ...

October 17, 2018

BROOKVILLE, Pa. — One of two Roman Catholic priests charged as a result of the damning Pennsylvania grand jury investigation admitted he sexually abused children, pleading ...

October 17, 2018

WASHINGTON — Over the past few decades tornadoes have been shifting — decreasing in Oklahoma, Texas and Kansas but spinning up more in states along the Mississippi River and ...

October 17, 2018

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump put a big and risky bet on Saudi Arabia and its 33-year-old crown prince. It's now become much riskier.From the early days of his ...

October 17, 2018

SYDNEY, N.S. — Ashley MacIsaac says he's spent 25 years feeling like a criminal, but he doesn't have to feel that way anymore.The 43-year-old Cape Breton-born fiddler has ...

October 17, 2018

ISTANBUL — Turkish crime-scene investigators searched the home of the Saudi consul general in Istanbul on Wednesday in the disappearance of Saudi writer Jamal Khashoggi, and ...

October 17, 2018

MOSCOW — An 18-year-old student strode into his vocational school in Crimea, a hoodie covering his blond hair, then pulled out a shotgun and opened fire on Wednesday, killing...

October 17, 2018

Five stories in the news for Wednesday, Oct. 17 ——— FIRST LEGAL POT SALES MADE IN N.L. Ian Power made sure he was first in line on a chilly October night to make a ...

October 17, 2018

ATLANTA — Police in Georgia are investigating the arrest of a black preteen rapper by a white off-duty officer.News outlets report Cobb Police Chief Mike Register says the ...

October 17, 2018

BATH, Ont. — Convicted rapist and killer Paul Bernardo is due to plead for release today.The 54-year-old Bernardo is expected to argue at a parole hearing that he has ...

October 17, 2018

OTTAWA — As Canada embarks today on a new era of legal recreational cannabis, the Trudeau government will close the door on the old prohibition era by announcing a ...