August 21, 2019

Bigger, hotter wildfires are turning Canada's vast boreal forest into a significant new source of climate-changing greenhouse gases, scientists say.The shift, which may have ...

August 21, 2019

DAYTON, Tenn. — Police say a Tennessee woman accused of scalding the feet of a toddler has been charged with aggravated child abuse.Rhea County Sheriff's Detective Rocky ...

August 21, 2019

PARIS — Frederic Riesterer, the producer and creator of electronic dance music who co-wrote the Grammy-nominated hit "I Gotta Feeling" with The Black Eyed Peas, has died. He ...

August 21, 2019

There is a certain mindless pleasure in the "Fallen" movies. Watching Gerard Butler muscle his way through increasingly preposterous obstacles as a Secret Service agent can ...

August 21, 2019

OTTAWA — Cries of a coverup competed with claims of pre-election, hyper-partisan excess Wednesday after Liberal MPs blocked an opposition attempt to hold hearings on ethics ...

August 21, 2019

PALMETTO, Ga. — A small-town grocery store in Georgia has grown in popularity and sold more Eggo waffles than ever in recent years, thanks to Netflix's "Stranger Things."Fans...

August 21, 2019

DENVER — Thousands of people who planned to camp during three days of Phish concerts at a stadium outside Denver will no longer be able to because of concerns that fleas in ...

August 21, 2019

RALEIGH, N.C. — A federal jury began deliberations Wednesday over whether the former head of a private Christian school that novelist Nicholas Sparks founded in his North ...

August 21, 2019

CEREAL, Alta. — A Saskatchewan man says a well-timed pit stop may have helped him avoid getting caught in a fiery 10-vehicle crash in southeastern Alberta that killed three ...

August 21, 2019

BERLIN — A German city that's been the subject of a long-running online light-hearted conspiracy theory claiming it doesn't really exist is offering big bucks to whoever ...

August 21, 2019

BERLIN — Police say an 8-year-old boy took his mom's car and went for a nighttime joyride on a highway in western Germany.Soest police said the boy's mother called them early...

August 21, 2019

LUTSEL K'E, N.W.T. — A deal on a vast new national park reserve in the North is being called a model for future relationships between First Nations and Canada."This is what ...

August 21, 2019

HONG KONG — China said Wednesday a staffer at the British consulate in Hong Kong has been given 15 days of administrative detention in the city of Shenzhen for violating ...

August 21, 2019

Four stories in the news for Wednesday, Aug. 21———ETHICS REPORT NOT HURTING LIBERALS: POLLA new poll suggests a scathing ethics report on Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's ...

August 21, 2019

OTTAWA — One of Nova Scotia's best-known country music stars is walking on to the political stage.George Canyon has announced he's running as a Conservative candidate in the ...

August 21, 2019

OTTAWA — A new poll suggests a scathing ethics report on Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's handling of the SNC-Lavalin affair hasn't so far hurt the Liberals' chances of ...

August 20, 2019

CEREAL, Alta. — One person is dead and others have been injured in a fiery crash that forced the closure of Highway 9 about 300 kilometres east of Calgary.The Alberta ...

August 20, 2019

NEW YORK — A lawyer for Harvey Weinstein has asked that the disgraced movie mogul's upcoming criminal trial be moved out of New York City, saying he can't get a fair trial.In...

August 20, 2019

MELBOURNE, Australia — An Australian appeals court by a 2-1 ruling Wednesday upheld convictions against Cardinal George Pell, the most senior Catholic to be found guilty of ...

August 20, 2019

LAS VEGAS — Dallas Cowboys star running back Ezekiel Elliott won't face criminal charges after scuffling with a music festival security guard in Las Vegas.Prosecutor Steve ...

August 20, 2019

VANCOUVER — Court documents released ahead of a Huawei executive's extradition trial suggest a Canadian border official questioned Meng Wanzhou about her business before RCMP...

August 20, 2019

SAN FRANCISCO — Los Angeles Opera said Tuesday it will immediately open a "thorough and independent investigation" into allegations of sexual harassment against the opera ...

August 20, 2019

Philadelphia's police commissioner resigned Tuesday amid allegations that members of his department engaged in sexual harassment and racial and gender discrimination against ...

August 20, 2019

LOS ANGELES — Larry King has filed for divorce from his seventh wife, Shawn King, after 22 years.The 85-year-old talk show host filed a petition to end the marriage Tuesday ...

August 20, 2019

NEW YORK — Prime-time viewership numbers compiled by Nielsen for Aug. 12-18. Listings include the week's ranking and viewership.1. "America's Got Talent" (Tuesday), NBC, 9.1 ...

August 20, 2019

CALGARY — A program that allows the Alberta government to impose production caps on oil companies is being extended by a year as delays in building new market-opening ...

August 20, 2019

YELLOWKNIFE — A Canadian composer living in France has been killed while working in the Northwest Territories.French media reports say Julien Gauthier was attacked last week ...

August 20, 2019

OTTAWA — Five party leaders have confirmed they will participate in two major televised election debates in October, the media group producing the events announced Tuesday. ...

August 20, 2019

Audible.com bestsellers for week ending August 16:Fiction:1. Treasure Island: An Audible Original Drama by Robert Louis Stevenson & Marty Ross - adaptation, narrated by ...

August 20, 2019

Apple Book charts for week ending August 18, 2019: (Rank, Book Title by Author Name, ISBN, Publisher)1. Contraband by Stuart Woods - 9780593083154 - (Penguin Publishing Group...

August 20, 2019

App Store Official Charts for the week ending August 18, 2019:Top Paid iPhone Apps:1. Minecraft, Mojang2. Heads Up!, Warner Bros.3. Bloons TD 6, Ninja Kiwi4. Plague Inc., ...

August 20, 2019

iTunes Movies U.S. charts for week ending August 18, 2019:iTunes Movies US Charts:1. Avengers: Endgame2. The Secret Life of Pets 23. Godzilla: King of the Monsters (2019)4. ...

August 20, 2019

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says the issue of declining news revenues amid domination by tech giants will be discussed at the G7 leaders' summit in France later this ...

August 20, 2019

FLINT, Mich. — A jury acquitted former Michigan State basketball star Mateen Cleaves on Tuesday of allegations he sexually assaulted a woman in a motel room four years ...

August 20, 2019

LOS ANGELES — Prosecutors on Tuesday dropped the case against a man charged with stealing Frances McDormand's Oscar statuette from a 2018 Academy Awards after-party.Terry ...

August 20, 2019

CAIRO — Sudan's pro-democracy movement and the army announced a joint ruling body on Tuesday, formally disbanding the military council that took power after the ouster of ...

August 20, 2019

DERRY, N.H. — Officials in a New Hampshire town are trying to figure out how a recently opened time capsule from 50 years ago has nothing in it.Library director Cara Potter ...

August 20, 2019

SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic — Authorities in the Dominican Republic have arrested former MLB pitcher Octavio Dotel and cited ex-infielder Luis Castillo for their ...

August 20, 2019

TORONTO — The body that oversees federally appointed judges wants the Supreme Court of Canada to decide whether the organization's disciplinary decisions are beyond judicial ...

August 20, 2019

OTTAWA — Cannons boomed on Parliament Hill Tuesday as the military installed a new Canadian Army commander, hoping to march past years of instability in the most senior ranks...

August 20, 2019

OTTAWA — Six Liberal MPs will be the ones to decide whether the federal ethics watchdog will speak publicly about his scathing report on how Prime Minister Justin Trudeau ...

August 20, 2019

OTTAWA — The chief of a northwestern Ontario reserve —and an NDP candidate in this fall's federal election — is calling on Indigenous Services Minister Seamus O'Regan to sit ...

August 20, 2019

LAS VEGAS — Fearing they could be overwhelmed with visitors, officials in the remote Nevada county that's home to the Area 51 military base have drafted an emergency ...

August 20, 2019

IOWA CITY, Iowa — A Missouri farmer blamed for running the largest organic food fraud scheme in U.S. history has died by suicide, weeks before he was to report to federal ...

August 20, 2019

OTTAWA — Andrew Scheer made a pre-campaign play for parental votes Tuesday as he promised that a Conservative government would introduce a tax credit for new mothers and ...

August 20, 2019

BAGHDAD — A large explosion hit an arms depot belonging to an Iranian-backed militia faction north of Baghdad on Tuesday, the latest in a series of mysterious blasts at ...

August 20, 2019

OTTAWA — The federal Liberals are easing immigration and refugee rules for Venezuelans amid their country's deepening political and economic crisis, and ahead of a high-level...

August 20, 2019

ROME — Italian Premier Giuseppe Conte announced his resignation Tuesday, blaming the collapse of his 14-month-old populist government on his rebellious and politically ...

August 20, 2019

HELHEIM GLACIER, Greenland — This is where Earth's refrigerator door is left open, where glaciers dwindle and seas begin to rise.New York University air and ocean scientist ...

August 20, 2019

RIO DE JANEIRO — An armed man was holding dozens of people hostage on a public bus Tuesday in Rio de Janeiro and threatening to set the vehicle on fire, Brazilian police ...

August 20, 2019

CHICAGO — A federal judge hearing the city of Chicago's lawsuit against Jussie Smollett says she'll rule on the actor's request to toss the suit in October.The 10-minute ...

August 20, 2019

Four stories in the news for Tuesday, Aug. 20 ——— SCHEER WON'T 'LIFT FINGER' FOR 'JIHADI JACK' Neither the governing Liberals nor the Opposition Conservatives ...

August 20, 2019

SHENZHEN, China — The founder of Chinese tech giant Huawei said Tuesday he expects no relief from U.S. export curbs because of the political climate in Washington but ...

August 20, 2019

BEIRUT — The main insurgent group in the Syrian province of Idlib pulled out of a key rebel town as government forces advanced in the area on Tuesday amid intense bombardment...

August 19, 2019

CANBERRA, Australia — Cardinal George Pell's appeal against his convictions for child molestation was largely a question of who the jury should have believed, his accuser or ...

August 19, 2019

BANGKOK — A tour bus carrying dozens of Chinese passengers crashed in Laos, killing at least 13, officials said Tuesday.The bus was carrying 44 Chinese when it careened off a...

August 19, 2019

TAMPA, Fla. — A felony battery charge has been dropped against singer Chris Brown, who had been accused of attacking a nightclub photographer in Florida two years ...

August 19, 2019

NEW YORK — Mark Halperin's planned book about the 2020 election has been officially announced amid protests that the "Game Change" co-author hasn't earned a second chance ...

August 19, 2019

QUEBEC — Alberta Premier Jason Kenney shot back at his Quebec counterpart Monday, saying Francois Legault does not understand the history of equalization.On Sunday, Legault ...

August 19, 2019

OTTAWA — The Federal Court has approved a settlement agreement for survivors of so-called Indian day schools.Under the terms of the settlement, survivors will be able to ...

August 19, 2019

OTTAWA — U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo will visit Canada later this week to meet with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland. ...

August 19, 2019

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

August 19, 2019

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...

August 19, 2019

OTTAWA — Canadians in Hong Kong are watching nervously as tensions escalate between pro-democracy protesters and police but so far, the Canadian consulate in the region is ...

August 19, 2019

BEMIDJI, Minn. — Dozens of people rallied outside a Minnesota office of Enbridge Energy to protest the company's proposed Line 3 oil pipeline replacement.Protesters say six ...

August 19, 2019

NEW YORK — After five years of investigations and protests, the New York City Police Department on Monday fired an officer involved in the 2014 chokehold death of Eric Garner...

August 19, 2019

OTTAWA — The man whose position on climate change is at the centre of a controversy over partisan campaign rhetoric weighed in Monday, saying Elections Canada is stifling ...

August 19, 2019

WASHINGTON — Attorney General William Barr removed the acting director of the Bureau of Prisons from his position Monday, more than a week after millionaire financier Jeffrey...

August 19, 2019

OTTAWA — In a story that moved Sunday, Aug. 18, about the federal laws governing third-party advertising during the election campaign period, The Canadian Press reported that...

August 19, 2019

NEW YORK — With a simple "We do," Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson announced his wedding to his longtime girlfriend on Instagram.A photo of the movie star and Lauren Hashian was ...

August 19, 2019

WELLINGTON, New Zealand — A grieving Canadian woman is focusing on the memories she shared with her Australian fiance before he was murdered Friday in a seemingly random ...