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DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) - A tornado that tore through southeastern Missouri on Wednesday caused widespread destruction and killed and injured multiple people, authorities said. The tornado moved through...

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) - A Democrat in the North Carolina state House switched to the Republican Party on Wednesday, giving the GOP veto-proof control in both chambers of the legislature and handing Democ...

TOKYO (AP) - Japanese police have arrested two men who posted a clip in which one of them is eating ginger from a communal container with his chopsticks at a famous beef bowl restaurant, part of a ser...

ROME (AP) - Former Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi was hospitalized Wednesday, his spokesman said. Italian media reported he was in intensive care with respiratory problems. The 86-year-old three-ti...

A few hours before Canada's game Friday at the women's world hockey championship, Claire Thompson will write an endocrinology exam. "School still goes on, even when there's a world championship," Thom...

LONDON (AP) - British media are reporting that the husband of former Scottish first minister and Scottish National Party leader Nicola Sturgeon has been arrested in a party finance probe. Police in Sc...

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 April 5 ... What we are watching in Canada ......

OTTAWA - The federal government is backing awayfrom setting a timelineto introduce legislation that would declare First Nations policing an essential service, but at least one regional chief hopes to ...

AMQUI, Que. - A Quebec man accused of driving his truck into groups of pedestrians last month is due back in court today. Steeve Gagnon is expected to be arraigned on three counts of first-degree murd...

WHITEHORSE - The ancient remains of a ground squirrel dug up by miners near Dawson City, Yukon, still has lessons to teach 30,000 years after it died, an expert says. At first glance, the small, brown...