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SILVER SPRING, Md. - The U.S. services sector, where most Americans work, grew for the seventh consecutive month in December even as coronavirus cases surged through the holidays. The Institute for Su...

WASHINGTON - Congress confirmed Democrat Joe Biden as the presidential election winner early Thursday after a violent mob loyal to President Donald Trump stormed the U.S. Capitol in a stunning attempt...

JOHANNESBURG - South Africa says it will import 1.5 million doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine to inoculate the country's health workers. This is South Africa's first announcement of the purchase of a C...

WASHINGTON - The U.S. trade deficit jumped to $68.1 billion in November as a surge in imports overwhelmed a smaller increase in exports. The November gap between what America buys from abroad compared...

KABUL - Attacks in Afghanistan left at least 23 civilians and security forces dead, officials said Thursday, even as Afghan negotiators were in Qatar to resume talks with the Taliban aimed at finding ...

To the uninitiated, they look like chipped rocks. To Julio Mercader of the University of Calgary, they look like two-million-year-old messages from the dawn of human technology. "It is really the begi...

Happy HatterI am glad that the Covid 19 cases have been going down each day since I got home from college! I am extremely happy that I got to be baptized in amongst all this craziness!!!! Woot woot!!!...

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 Jan. 7 ... What we are watching in Canada ... ...

OTTAWA - Canada's special adviser on the Iranian military's downing of a passenger jet one year ago this week is rejecting Tehran's offer to pay $150,000 to the families of those killed in the tragedy...

Pedram Mousavi sat with the other passengers on Ukrainian International Airlines Flight PS752 as it remained parked on the tarmac south of Iran's capital, Tehran, about an hour behind schedule in the ...