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SAN DIEGO - The Trump administration said Tuesday that it is waiving federal contracting laws to speed construction of a wall at the U.S.-Mexico border, moving the president closer to fulfilling a sig...

NEW YORK - Jurors in Harvey Weinstein's rape trial ended their first day of deliberations Tuesday with lots of questions and no verdict in the landmark #MeToo case that could put the once-powerful Hol...

NEW YORK - The redesigned "Sonic the Hedgehog" showed plenty of teeth at the box office, speeding to a $57 million debut, according to studio estimates Sunday, while "Parasite" saw one of the largest ...

OTTAWA - Elections Canada can't let its guard down, says Canada's chief electoral officer Stephane Perrault, despite getting through last fall's federal election campaign with no significant cybersecu...

VANCOUVER - While Vancouver celebrates the 10th anniversary of the 2010 Winter Olympic and Paralympic Games, the man who co-led the bid and headed the organizing committee wants the&nbs...

KABUL - Ashraf Ghani won a second term as president of Afghanistan, the country's independent election commission announced Tuesday, but his closest opponent refused to recognize the results, declarin...

Canadians stranded on a quarantined cruise ship were told that a flight set to bring them home is "expected" to depart Tokyo Haneda Airport on Thursday amid an outbreak of the novel coronavirus. Passe...

MONTREAL - Via Rail says its service will resume Thursday morning in southwestern Ontario. The passenger rail company says it received a notification from CN Rail allowing a resumption of service in t...

JUBA, South Sudan - South Sudan's rival leaders on Thursday announced they have agreed to form a coalition government just two days before the latest deadline, a major step in the emergence from a fiv...

PHOENIX - President Donald Trump trolled his political enemies Wednesday in the first of three rallies in three days in the West as Democrats vied in neighbouring Nevada to be the one to challenge him...