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LOS ANGELES - Liam Hemsworth is seeking a divorce from Miley Cyrus after seven months of marriage. The 29-year-old Australian actor filed for the dissolution of his marriage to the 26-year-old America...

OTTAWA - Neither the governing Liberals nor the Opposition Conservatives expressed enthusiasm Monday for trying to secure the release of the overseas prisoner dubbed "Jihadi Jack" by th...

OTTAWA - The Canadian Armed Forces is facing calls to train its recruiters and other service members to identify and screen out members of hate groups. The military is also being accused of failing to...

OTTAWA - Liberal members of a parliamentary committee have blocked an opposition attempt to hear from ethics commissioner Mario Dion about his scathing report into Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's hand...

TORONTO - With the sting of Canada's World Cup disappointment diminishing, veteran captain Christine Sinclair is intent on leading the Canadian women's soccer team into the 2020 Summer Games in T...

OTTAWA - The Ottawa Senators have signed forward Colin White to a six-year contract with an average annual value of US$4.75 million. A first-round pick (21st overall) by the Senators in the 2015 NHL d...

INDIANAPOLIS - Larry Bird likes the mural but not the tats. An artist says she'll remove most tattoos from a large painting of the former NBA star on an Indianapolis multi-family residence. The tattoo...

CEREAL, AB - RCMP say that the investigation following the multi-vehicle collision near Cereal Tuesday afternoon will take several weeks. Corporal Laurel Scott, media relations officer with the RCMP, ...

QUEBEC - For the second month in a row, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has made a billion-dollar funding announcement for public transit in Quebec, a province whose support he badly needs to maint...

WASHINGTON - Federal Reserve officials were widely divided at their meeting last month when they decided to cut rates for the first time in a decade, with some arguing for a bigger rate cut while othe...