October 17, 2019

LOS ANGELES — A Los Angeles jury has started deliberating whether a man prosecutors have dubbed "The Boy Next Door Killer" will get a sentence of death or life in prison for ...

October 17, 2019

WASHINGTON — He said she's a "third-grade" politician. She said he's having a meltdown.And with that President Donald Trump and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi chalked up the ...

October 17, 2019

BALTIMORE — Maryland Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, a sharecropper's son who rose to become a civil rights champion and the chairman of one of the U.S. House committees leading an ...

October 17, 2019

BENTONVILLE, Ark. — A bestselling author and wellness expert is holding a symposium at the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art in northwest Arkansas.Author Deepak Chopra ...

October 17, 2019

LAHORE, Pakistan — Britain's Prince William and wife Kate toured Pakistan's eastern city of Lahore on Thursday, where they undertook an emotional visit to a cancer hospital ...

October 17, 2019

NEW ORLEANS — Tulane University has announced plans for a major book festival to be held annually between Mardi Gras and Jazz Fest.The first New Orleans Book Festival at ...

October 17, 2019

CANBERRA, Australia — Ronan Farrow's new book is being sold in Australia despite threats of defamation lawsuits that the Pulitzer-winning journalist believes led some ...

October 16, 2019

BRUSSELS — British Prime Minister Boris Johnson's career of disdain for the European Union was a thing of the past on Thursday as he and the bloc's leaders celebrated their ...

October 16, 2019

SEOUL, Korea, Republic Of — South Korea's national soccer team described their World Cup qualifier against North Korea in Pyongyang as a "rough" match played under strange ...

October 16, 2019

DALLAS — Boxer Errol Spence Jr. has been discharged from a hospital and charged with drunken driving after crashing his speeding Ferrari.Dallas police charged Spence on ...

October 16, 2019

DALLAS — Boxer Errol Spence Jr. has been discharged from a hospital and charged with drunken driving after crashing his speeding Ferrari.Dallas police charged Spence on ...

October 16, 2019

EDMONTON — Alberta is introducing legislation first developed in Britain that allows people in abusive relationships to request information about a partner's criminal ...

October 16, 2019

PHOENIX — An Arizona house that was the last home architect Frank Lloyd Wright designed before his death sold Wednesday for nearly $1.7 million.Out of nearly 20 bids at a ...

October 16, 2019

ST-JEROME, Que. — The fate of Ugo Fredette, a Quebec man charged with two counts of first-degree murder in the deaths of his ex-wife and a stranger he met at a highway rest ...

October 16, 2019

LOS ANGELES — Earthquake early warning alerts will become publicly available throughout California for the first time this week, potentially giving people time to protect ...

October 16, 2019

BAGLEY, Iowa — Blood may be thicker than water, but it'll still flood your basement.Nick Lestina found this out the hard way two weeks ago when he discovered 5 inches (13 ...

October 16, 2019

LOS ANGELES — Television powerhouse Shonda Rhimes is moving aggressively into the burgeoning podcast world.Rhimes' company, Shondaland, said Wednesday that she will serve as ...

October 16, 2019

SAN FRANCISCO — One of California's largest hospital systems has reached an agreement to settle a massive class-action lawsuit over allegations that it abused its market ...

October 16, 2019

WASHINGTON — The Trump administration said Wednesday that it will soon require Chinese officials in the U.S. to notify the State Department ahead of any contacts they plan to...

October 16, 2019

EDMONTON — The Alberta government says it will take a second look at training requirements for truck drivers after meeting with Humboldt Broncos families.Sixteen people were ...

October 16, 2019

HARTFORD, Conn. — Two lawyers linked to the so-called Panama Papers are asking a federal judge to stop Neflix's upcoming release of "The Laundromat," which they say defames ...

October 16, 2019

SANTA BARBARA, Calif. — "Tarzan" actor Ron Ely's wife was stabbed to death in their California home by their 30-year-old son, who was then shot and killed by sheriff's ...

October 16, 2019

LOS ANGELES — Ask the daughter of paranormal researcher and "Ghostbusters" inspiration Hans Holzer whether she's got any scary Halloween memories to share, and Alexandra ...

October 16, 2019

A British family that made an unauthorized crossing from British Columbia into the United States was deported Wednesday after nearly two weeks in federal custody, ending an ...

October 16, 2019

OTTAWA — Vanessa Rodel arrived in Canada with her seven-year-old daughter last winter, granted refugee status in Canada as one of seven people who helped shelter American ...

October 16, 2019

HALIFAX — A Halifax coffee shop owner who says he tried for more than four months to evict a tenant he called a "professional squatter" is calling for reforms to ...

October 16, 2019

EDMONTON — Alberta Premier Jason Kenney said he hopes Swedish climate campaigner Greta Thunberg is warmly welcomed in Edmonton on Friday, but there are no plans to meet with ...

October 16, 2019

TORONTO — Marineland has applied for permits to sell five beluga whales to a U.S. facility that plans to use them for research and breeding, which is currently banned in ...

October 16, 2019

MONTREAL — Quebec provincial police say they've arrested four people in connection with four killings allegedly linked to Italian organized crime.Police say three men and a ...

October 16, 2019

DETROIT — On the picket lines at a General Motors transmission plant in Toledo, Ohio, passing cars honked and striking workers celebrated a tentative contract deal by ...

October 16, 2019

ROME — An Italian court has ruled that Leonardo Da Vinci's iconic "Vitruvian Man" drawing can be loaned to France's Louvre Museum, solving an ongoing cultural dispute between...

October 16, 2019

Dozens of women suffered "horrific" acts at the hands of a human trafficking ring that operated across the country, police north of Toronto said Wednesday as they announced ...

October 16, 2019

TORONTO — The Toronto Public Library is coming under fire over its refusal to cancel an event featuring a speaker who believes transgender rights endanger women, with several...

October 16, 2019

CASPER, Wyo. — The University of Wyoming could lose the papers of a longtime "Superman" comic book editor after his son took offence to comments by Congresswoman Liz ...

October 16, 2019

LONDON — The British government has abandoned a plan to require pornography websites to verify that their users are adults.The government said Wednesday that its goal of ...

October 16, 2019

NASHVILLE — Grammy-winning singer Lauren Daigle reigned at the 50th annual Gospel Music Association's Dove Awards on Tuesday, winning artist of the year, song of the year and...

October 16, 2019

WASHINGTON — Retail sales dropped in September by the largest amount in seven months, possibly signalling that rising trade tensions and turbulent markets are having an ...

October 16, 2019

DAVAO, Philippines — An earthquake hit the southern Philippines late Wednesday, killing a girl, and injuring more than two dozen people in collapsed houses, and sending ...

October 16, 2019

HACKENSACK, N.J. — Seven years after hitting the road to perform and share their stories of recording with some of the biggest names in pop music, a New Jersey-based group of...

October 15, 2019

BECKER, Minn. — A 6-year-old Minnesota boy who had been missing for hours was found safe early Wednesday after a volunteer used a drone with a thermal camera to help find the...

October 15, 2019

HONG KONG — Assailants with hammers attacked a protest organizer and lawmakers shouting abuse forced Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam to abandon a speech in the legislature, in ...

October 15, 2019

NEW YORK — Gerrit Cole is making his pitch to own this October.A gritty Cole held the New York Yankees scoreless without his sharpest stuff, Jose Altuve sparked Houston at ...

October 15, 2019

PHOENIX — Former major league pitcher Curt Schilling says he's decided not to run for Congress.Schilling told a Phoenix sports radio station Tuesday that he decided not to ...

October 15, 2019

EDMONTON — The Alberta government won't seek out a meeting with teen climate activist Greta Thunberg, but Environment Minister Jason Nixon said he hopes the Swedish girl ...

October 15, 2019

LOS ANGELES — Julie Andrews hasn't appeared in front of the camera in a feature film for almost 10 years, but that doesn't mean the 84-year-old screen legend has slowed down....

October 15, 2019

Toronto police have identified the alleged driver in a hit-and-run that badly injured a toddler, his mother and his grandmother over the long Thanksgiving weekend.Sgt. Murray...

October 15, 2019

BREMERTON, Wash. — A Washington state man was charged with a felony assault after police say he attacked his roommate believing he acknowledged being a vampire.Kitsap Sun ...

October 15, 2019

LONDON — Winning the Booker Prize is one big step for Bernardine Evaristo — and, she hopes, a giant leap for British women writers of colour.This week the London-based writer...

October 15, 2019

SAN FRANCISCO — "Desperate Housewives" star Felicity Huffman — aka prisoner No. 77806-112 — reported Tuesday to a federal prison in California to serve a two-week sentence in...

October 15, 2019

NEW YORK — Cuba Gooding Jr. is facing a growing cast of sexual misconduct accusers, with prosecutors Tuesday unveiling new criminal charges against the actor and telling a ...

October 15, 2019

NEW YORK — ABC News is apologizing for airing a video that it said depicted a Turkish attack on Kurds in Syria, but instead was taken at a military gun demonstration in ...

October 15, 2019

LSU quarterback Joe Burrow, who is on a record-breaking pace during the first half of the season, and Wisconsin running back Jonathan Taylor highlight The Associated Press ...

October 15, 2019

HELENA, Mont. — Authorities evacuated an elementary school in Montana on Tuesday after officials found what they thought were the remnants of a homemade bomb that exploded, ...

October 15, 2019

ATLANTA — Reality television personalities Todd and Julie Chrisley on Tuesday accused a Georgia tax official of abusing his office to pursue "bogus tax evasion claims" ...

October 15, 2019

CALGARY — The Alberta government is joining a class-action lawsuit to recoup health-care costs related to the opioid crisis, the province's health minister said Tuesday.Tyler...

October 15, 2019

LETHBRIDGE, Alta. — The Crown is appealing the not guilty verdict in the case of an Alberta couple charged with not seeking medical attention sooner for their sick son.Last ...

October 15, 2019

Toronto violated an animal welfare organization's right to free expression when a company contracted by the city took down the group's anti-Canada Goose ads, court heard ...

October 15, 2019

NEW YORK — Author Keri Smith is bringing the wreckage to a new group of readers.The creator of the million-selling "Wreck This Journal" is working on "Wreck This Picture Book...

October 15, 2019

DETROIT — General Motors CEO Mary Barra joined negotiators at the bargaining table, an indication that a deal may be near to end a monthlong strike by the United Auto Workers...

October 15, 2019

NASHVILLE — The story of 31-year-old Cyntoia Brown-Long has mostly been framed by attorneys, filmmakers and celebrities such as Rihanna and Kim Kardashian West.But Brown-Long...

October 15, 2019

SAN FRANCISCO — A brazen thief stole a Salvador Dali etching valued at $20,000 from a San Francisco gallery, then walked off down the street with the work in his hand."...

October 15, 2019

WASHINGTON — The impeachment inquiry is revealing vivid new details about the high-level unease over President Donald Trump's actions toward Ukraine, and those of his ...

October 15, 2019

NEW YORK — In reporter Ronan Farrow's account of his contentious divorce from NBC News, the more evidence he gathered on Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein's alleged sexual ...

October 15, 2019

WASHINGTON — Hunter Biden, acknowledging that his family name created business opportunities, rejected assertions by President Donald Trump that he did anything wrong by ...

October 15, 2019

SEOUL, Korea, Republic Of — North Korea held South Korea to a 0-0 draw Tuesday in a World Cup qualifying soccer match played in an empty stadium in Pyongyang.Specific details...

October 15, 2019

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 Oct. 15. What we...

October 15, 2019

CANBERRA, Australia — Papua New Guinea police said Tuesday they were seeking the arrest of Prime Minister Peter O'Neill for official corruption but the former leader of the ...

October 14, 2019

LOS ANGELES — A destructive fire that exploded on the edge of Los Angeles began beneath a high-voltage transmission tower owned by Southern California Edison, fire officials ...

October 14, 2019

SAN FRANCISCO — California's top utility regulator blasted Pacific Gas and Electric on Monday for what she called "failures in execution" during the largest planned power ...

October 14, 2019

LONDON — Canadian literary star Margaret Atwood is sharing the Booker Prize with British author Bernardine Evaristo, after the prize jury tossed the rulebook out the window ...

October 14, 2019

LONDON — The latest on the awarding of this year's Booker Prize for fiction (all times local):9:55 p.m.Canadian writer Margaret Atwood and British author Bernardine Evaristo ...