August 16, 2018

NEW YORK — "Saturday Night Live" cast member Pete Davidson says he's the "luckiest guy in the world" after wasting little time pursuing Ariana Grande.In September's GQ ...

August 16, 2018

BURNABY, B.C. — The RCMP arrested protesters when officers enforced a court injunction early Thursday ordering the removal of all structures from a site where the Trans ...

August 16, 2018

BURNABY, B.C. — The RCMP arrested protesters when officers enforced a court injunction early Thursday ordering the removal of all structures from a site where the Trans ...

August 16, 2018

NEW HAVEN, Conn. — Forty-six people overdosed Wednesday at or near a Connecticut park from a suspected bad batch of "K2" synthetic marijuana, requiring paramedics to be ...

August 16, 2018

TRURO, Mass. — Massachusetts' leading shark expert is trying to determine if the first person to be attacked in waters off the state since 2012 was bitten by a great white ...

August 16, 2018

London rapper Stormzy is setting up a scholarship to help black students attend Britain's prestigious Cambridge University.The grime artist says the Stormzy Scholarship will ...

August 16, 2018

LOS ANGELES — Reese Witherspoon, Mahershala Ali and Keith Urban are among the stars joining the sixth Stand Up To Cancer telethon.Jennifer Garner, Trevor Noah, Marlee Matlin,...

August 16, 2018

Six Roman Catholic dioceses in Pennsylvania joined the list this week of those around the U.S. that have been forced to face the ugly truth about child-molesting priests in ...

August 16, 2018

NEW YORK — The bridge that collapsed in the Italian port city of Genoa was considered a feat of engineering innovation when it was built five decades ago, but it came to ...

August 16, 2018

MILAN — As Italy comes to terms with the disaster of this week's bridge collapse, the government is accusing the highway operator for focusing too much on its financial ...

August 16, 2018

NEW DELHI — Former Indian Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee, a Hindu nationalist who set off a nuclear arms race with rival Pakistan but later reached across the border to ...

August 16, 2018

TORONTO — A young woman who climbed a construction crane near Toronto's waterfront was taken into custody Thursday morning after police and firefighters conducted about an ...

August 16, 2018

BEIJING — A Chinese provincial deputy governor and the mayor of a major city were fired Thursday as the ruling Communist Party tried to defuse public outrage over revelations...

August 16, 2018

ALEXANDRIA, Va. — Jurors began their deliberations Thursday in the trial of former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort, who prosecutors say earned $60 million advising ...

August 16, 2018

NEW YORK — Newspapers from Maine to Hawaii pushed back against President Donald Trump's attacks on "fake news" Thursday with a co-ordinated series of editorials speaking up ...

August 16, 2018

FREDERICK, Colo. — The body was found of a pregnant Colorado woman whose husband was arrested in the disappearance of her and her two young daughters, and investigators were ...

August 16, 2018

JAKARTA, Indonesia — One win into the Asian Games and the bigger picture is already clear for the combined Koreas basketball team.Three North Korean players, including ...

August 16, 2018

WASHINGTON — The two billionaire mega donors poured $1.25 million into a super PAC that was supposed to supercharge Chris McDaniel's insurgent bid to be Mississippi's next ...

August 16, 2018

TAOS, N.M. — Three people accused of child abuse at a ramshackle desert compound remained jailed Wednesday as New Mexico authorities sought to satisfy the conditions of their...

August 16, 2018

DALLAS — A murder trial for a former Texas police officer who killed a black teenager highlights the heightened role video evidence plays in high-profile police shootings ...

August 16, 2018

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Brandon Hein was 18 when he and three other teenagers were charged in the 1995 stabbing death of the 16-year-old son of a Los Angeles police ...

August 16, 2018

ANKARA, Turkey — Turkey's finance chief tried to reassure thousands of international investors on a conference call Thursday, in which he pledged to fix the economic troubles...

August 16, 2018

JAKARTA, Indonesia — Indonesia's president urged his country to embrace its founding spirit of tolerance in an annual national address just days after choosing a divisive ...

August 16, 2018

MIAMI — New videos show construction workers labouring on a pedestrian bridge in Florida shortly before it collapses, killing six people.The time-lapse video released ...

August 16, 2018

HAWTHORNE, N.Y. — Amid the serene graves at Gate of Heaven Cemetery sits the one where visitors leave baseballs and bats instead of bouquets, tributes to a baseball superstar...

August 16, 2018

OTTAWA — "I think any time you have a government that allows 30,000 people over the course of a short period of time to come into Canada illegally, the impact that that has, ...

August 16, 2018

FREDERICTON — Hundreds of mourners are expected to attend a public visitation Thursday for two Fredericton police constables described as "two of the most positive people ...

August 16, 2018

KAMPALA, Uganda — A pop singer and prominent critic of Uganda's government was charged with unlawful possession of firearms and ammunition in a military court on Thursday for...

August 16, 2018

BAMAKO, Mali — Mali's President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita won a second five-year term in the turbulent West African nation with more than 67 per cent of the vote in a runoff ...

August 16, 2018

PHNOM PENH, Cambodia — One of Australia's most famous movie directors testified Thursday in Cambodia at the trial of a filmmaking countryman facing a possible prison term of ...

August 16, 2018

OTTAWA — With threats of devastating U.S. tariffs hanging over the auto sector, Canada's economic development minister says Ottawa is considering every possible way it could ...

August 16, 2018

Eight stories in the news for Thursday, Aug. 16———BERNIER DOESN'T SPEAK FOR PARTY: SCHEERConservative Leader Andrew Scheer is under pressure to kick Maxime Bernier out of ...

August 16, 2018

CALGARY — The mother of a terminally ill Calgary boy who requires around-the-clock care says she is being hassled by neighbours over street parking.Melissa Huitema has a team...

August 16, 2018

KABUL — As Afghanistan's Shiites mourned their dead and held funeral services Thursday, the Islamic State group claimed responsibility for the horrific suicide bombing in ...

August 15, 2018

ALBANY, N.Y. — New York state has named two new writers as the state poet and author.Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced Wednesday that Colson Whitehead will serve as ...

August 15, 2018

SHAH ALAM, Malaysia — Two women on trial for the brazen assassination of the North Korean leader's half brother were told Thursday to make their defence after the judge found...

August 15, 2018

LOS ANGELES — Nearly five years after Paul Walker's death, his brothers say they're open to playing his character again in the "Fast and Furious" franchise.Producers asked ...

August 15, 2018

OTTAWA — A Liberal MP is under fire for presenting a "certificate of appreciation" to a man one Jewish advocacy group labels a purveyor of anti-Semitism.B'nai Brith Canada ...

August 15, 2018

MONTREAL — The Quebec government is setting aside almost $900 million for companies affected by tariffs recently imposed on Canada by the United States.Premier Philippe ...

August 15, 2018

ESQUIMALT, B.C. — A B.C. acupuncturist and former military officer is facing allegations of sexual assault against four women and Victoria police say there may be other ...

August 15, 2018

TRURO, Mass. — A man swimming off Cape Cod was attacked by a shark on Wednesday and was airlifted to a hospital. It was the first shark attack on a human at the popular ...

August 15, 2018

NEW YORK — The man who co-wrote "I Want to Hold Your Hand" more than a half century ago is speaking more directly these days.Sir Paul McCartney released a new single on ...

August 15, 2018

OTTAWA — The federal government is giving farmers three years to figure out what pesticides they can use to protect their crops from aphids and mites, but some say they ...

August 15, 2018

TEMPE, Ariz. — A son of actor Jean-Claude Van Damme has pleaded guilty to disorderly conduct for holding his roommate at knifepoint at their apartment in suburban ...

August 15, 2018

OTTAWA — Following Toronto's lead, Montreal is set to formally ask the federal government to impose a nationwide ban on handguns and so-called assault rifles for anyone who ...

August 15, 2018

DENVER — A Colorado baker who refused to make a wedding cake for a gay couple on religious grounds — a stance partially upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court — has sued the state ...

August 15, 2018

HARRISBURG, Pa. — A sweeping grand jury report into child sexual abuse in Roman Catholic dioceses in Pennsylvania said church officials gave a former priest a positive ...

August 15, 2018

OTTAWA — The federal government wants to establish a holiday to acknowledge the dark legacy of Canada's residential school system, and plans to use an opposition bill to ...

August 15, 2018

LAKEPORT, Calif. — Jack Hattendorf steers his road grader back and forth across a dirt path cutting through blackened earth.With each pass, he smooths and tamps down the soil...

August 15, 2018

REDDING, Calif. — A couple whose flattened trailer tire accidentally started a massive fire in Northern California has received more than 100 cards and letters with ...

August 15, 2018

OTTAWA — The federal government is reviewing a decision of the UN Human Rights Committee that concluded Canada violated the rights of an undocumented irregular migrant by ...

August 15, 2018

MONTREAL — Parti Quebecois Leader Jean-Francois Lisee is looking to some sovereigntist heavyweights for inspiration with his party struggling in third place in the ...

August 15, 2018

TORONTO — Class-action lawyers who secured a landmark $750-million compensation deal for Indigenous victims of the '60s Scoop have been left in fee limbo amid conflicting ...

August 15, 2018

WASHINGTON — Former CIA Director John Brennan said Thursday that President Donald Trump yanked his security clearance because his campaign colluded with the Russians to sway ...

August 15, 2018

HALIFAX — Canada's police chiefs say in light of recent gun-related tragedies in Fredericton and in other cities across the country they are striking a committee to analyze ...

August 15, 2018

TORONTO — A string of overdose deaths in a pocket of Canada's most populous city highlights the urgent need for new overdose prevention sites, an advocacy group said ...

August 15, 2018

OTTAWA — Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer was under mounting pressure to denounce Maxime Bernier's public statements and kick him out of caucus Wednesday after the maverick ...

August 15, 2018

HELENA, Mont. — Republicans on Wednesday condemned a poster by Pearl Jam that shows the White House in flames and a bald eagle pecking at a skeleton they say is meant to ...

August 15, 2018

MONTREAL — Quebec's top court will allow Just For Laughs founder Gilbert Rozon to appeal a decision that authorized a class-action lawsuit brought against him by several ...

August 15, 2018

DETROIT — People are praying for Aretha Franklin in the Detroit church where her father was once a pastor.The special vigil at New Bethel Baptist Church began before dawn ...

August 15, 2018

BOCA RATON, Fla. — Florida prosecutors have decided not to file domestic battery charges against the stepmother of actress Lindsay Lohan.Kate Major Lohan was arrested July 26...

August 15, 2018

QUEBEC — An outgoing Liberal member of the Quebec legislature accused Premier Philippe Couillard on Wednesday of not keeping his word as he was unceremoniously dumped by the ...

August 15, 2018

LOS ANGELES — The diversity crisis in Hollywood may rage on, but the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences continues to try to open up access to the entertainment ...

August 15, 2018

Two prominent water scientists say a debate over Canada's largest national park has become politicized and industrial development is being blamed for changes it didn't ...

August 15, 2018

TORONTO — Ontario has frozen the salaries of executives across the public sector as it reviews how raises are granted to top earners at agencies that include school boards, ...

August 15, 2018

HOUSTON — The attorney taking on President Donald Trump over his alleged affair with an adult film actress says he's successfully reunited a 9-year-old boy with his mother in...

August 15, 2018

HALIFAX — A call by police chiefs for Ottawa to closely vet people who import pill presses that may be used to encapsulate opioids will be carefully considered by federal ...

August 15, 2018

NEW YORK — Aerosmith is the latest act to head to Las Vegas to launch a residency.The rock band announced Wednesday that "Aerosmith: Deuces are Wild" would kick off April 6, ...

August 15, 2018

OTTAWA — The number of irregular border crossers in Canada went up in July after two months of decline.Newly published federal data shows a total of 1,634 irregular migrants ...

August 15, 2018

OTTAWA — The minister responsible for Parks Canada says tearing down statues is not the solution when it comes to addressing the darker side of Canadian history.Environment ...

August 15, 2018

TORONTO — Shopify is taking aim at weapons companies by banning the sale of some firearms and accessories on its platform.The Ottawa-based e-commerce giant quietly made ...