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MABOU, N.S. - The federal Fisheries Department says it won't order a necropsy into the death of a young blue whale off Cape Breton. The body of the endangered mammal was spotted la...

U.S. new home sales jumped 7.1% in August, as low mortgage rates pull buyers into the housing market. The Commerce Department says that new homes sales increased to a seasonally adjusted annual rate o...

WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump repeatedly prodded Ukraine's new leader to work with Rudy Giuliani and the U.S. attorney general to investigate Democratic political rival Joe Biden, according to a...

BAIKONUR, Kazakhstan - A multinational crew made up of an American, a Russian and the first space traveller from the United Arab Emirates has blasted off successfully for a mission on the Internationa...

HAMILTON - A re-elected Liberal government would introduce a national pharmacare program, Justin Trudeau promised Monday - though he wouldn't say how much it would cost or when it would take...

WASHINGTON - House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has launched a formal impeachment inquiry against President Donald Trump, yielding to mounting pressure from fellow Democrats and plunging a deeply divided nati...

NEW YORK - Al Franken, who resigned his U.S. Senate seat in 2017 amid sexual misconduct charges, will re-emerge into the public sphere on Saturday when he starts a new weekly radio show on the SiriusX...

LONDON - British Attorney General Geoffrey Cox accused Parliament on Wednesday of being a "disgrace" as lawmakers returned for the first day of work since a bombshell court decision deemed Prime Minis...

LONDON - In a decision that badly undermines Boris Johnson's authority, Britain's highest court ruled unanimously Tuesday that the prime minister broke the law by suspending Parliament in a way that s...

NAIROBI, Kenya - A school collapsed in Kenya's capital on Monday and killed at least seven children, officials said, while some outraged residents alleged shoddy construction. Two other children were ...