January 23, 2021

OTTAWA — Conservative Leader Erin O'Toole says he was once willing to give his former leadership rival Derek Sloan the benefit of the doubt, but no longer. And he dismissed ...

January 23, 2021

The latest news on COVID-19 developments in Canada (all times Eastern):6:25 p.m.Alberta's chief medical officer of health is reporting 13 new COVID-19 deaths.Dr. Deena ...

January 23, 2021

LOS ANGELES — Larry King, the suspenders-sporting everyman whose broadcast interviews with world leaders, movie stars and ordinary Joes helped define American conversation ...

January 23, 2021

WASHINGTON — Opening arguments in the Senate impeachment trial for Donald Trump over the Capitol riot will begin the week of Feb. 8, the first time a former president will ...

January 23, 2021

WASHINGTON — Newly confirmed Defence Secretary Lloyd Austin will have to contend not only with a world of security threats and a massive military bureaucracy, but also with a...

January 23, 2021

WASHINGTON — It's a proven political strategy: Underpromise and overdeliver.President Joe Biden, in his first three days in office, has painted a bleak picture of the ...

January 23, 2021

WASHINGTON — The heads of three federally funded international broadcasters were abruptly fired late Friday as the Biden administration completed a house-cleaning of Donald ...

January 23, 2021

BEIJING — China has authorized its coast guard to fire on foreign vessels and destroy structures on features it claims, potentially raising the possibility of clashes with ...

January 23, 2021

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka — Sri Lanka’s health minister, who has faced criticism for consuming and endorsing a herbal syrup made by a sorcerer, has tested positive for COVID-19.A ...

January 23, 2021

CAIRO — Tribal clashes in Sudan’s Darfur region have killed at least 250 people and displaced more than 100,000 people since erupting earlier this month, the U.N. refugee ...

January 23, 2021

MOSCOW — Russian police arrested more than 3,000 people Saturday in nationwide protests demanding the release of opposition leader Alexei Navalny, the Kremlin's most ...

January 23, 2021

LONDON — A major British doctors' group says the U.K. government should "urgently review" its decision to give people a second dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech coronavirus vaccine...

January 23, 2021

A naked Florida man stole what news footage showed to be a marked police vehicle and crashed it in a wooded area, officials said.Joshua Shenker, 22, was arrested after ...

January 23, 2021

MONTREAL — Fear that Quebecers will catch a new variant of COVID-19 on vacation is what's driving demands by the Quebec premier for Ottawa to ban non-essential flights to the...

January 23, 2021

OTTAWA — A Senate committee should examine the hurdles that make it difficult to use secret intelligence in Canada's courts, says the government representative in the upper ...

January 23, 2021

BEIJING — Canadian officials have met online with former diplomat Michael Kovrig, who has been held in China for more than two years in a case related to an executive of ...

January 23, 2021

The latest numbers on COVID-19 vaccinations in Canada as of 4:00 a.m. ET on Saturday, Jan. 23, 2021.In Canada, the provinces are reporting 37,742 new vaccinations ...

January 23, 2021

The latest numbers of confirmed COVID-19 cases in Canada as of 4:00 a.m. ET on Saturday, Jan. 23, 2021.There are 737,407 confirmed cases in Canada._ Canada: 737,407 confirmed...

January 23, 2021

TORONTO — A ticket holder from the Prairies won Friday night's whopping $60 million Lotto Max jackpot.The draw also offered six Maxmillions prizes of $1 million each, and one...

January 22, 2021

The latest numbers on COVID-19 vaccinations in Canada as of 10:30 p.m. ET on Friday, Jan. 22, 2021.In Canada, the provinces are reporting 37,742 new vaccinations administered...

January 22, 2021

The latest numbers of confirmed COVID-19 cases in Canada as of 7:30 p.m. ET on Friday, Jan. 22, 2021.There are 737,407 confirmed cases in Canada._ Canada: 737,407 confirmed ...

January 22, 2021

WHITEHORSE — A cabinet minister says a couple from outside Yukon travelled to a remote community in the territory this week and received doses of COVID-19 vaccine.Community ...

January 22, 2021

HONG KONG — Thousands of Hong Kong residents were locked down in their homes Saturday in an unprecedented move to contain a worsening coronavirus outbreak in the ...

January 22, 2021

PHOENIX — A Las Vegas-based tour bus heading to the Grand Canyon rolled over in northwestern Arizona on Friday, killing one person and critically injuring two others, ...

January 22, 2021

PROVIDENCE, R.I. — The former top editor of The New York Daily News has been tapped as the next executive editor of The Providence Journal.David Ng succeeds Alan Rosenberg, ...

January 22, 2021

PITTSBURGH — The son of a couple killed in a Pittsburgh synagogue attack that killed 11 worshippers is suing the National Rifle Association, arguing the group’s inflammatory ...

January 22, 2021

WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden has directed law enforcement and intelligence officials in his administration to study the threat of domestic violent extremism in the United...

January 22, 2021

Nearly a year to the day after the Chinese city of Wuhan went into lockdown to contain a virus that had already escaped, President Joe Biden began putting into effect a new ...

January 22, 2021

OTTAWA — Public Safety Minister Bill Blair has suspended the sale of decommissioned RCMP vehicles, two days after a man in Nova Scotia was arrested for allegedly ...

January 22, 2021

OTTAWA — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau tried to calm anxieties over COVID-19 vaccines Friday by reporting that the CEO of Pfizer is promising Canada's deliveries will be ...

January 22, 2021

OTTAWA — A new third-party advocacy group is launching an ad campaign aimed at ensuring Conservative Leader Erin O'Toole never becomes prime minister.The Protecting Canada ...

January 22, 2021

Ontario and Quebec are reporting a decrease in the number of people hospitalized with COVID-19 as Canada's largest two provinces remain under significant restrictions.There ...

January 22, 2021

OTTAWA — A group of large businesses in Banff National Park is proposing a rapid COVID-19 testing project meant to help reopen the economy safely. Yannis Karlos, the head of ...

January 22, 2021

The latest news on COVID-19 developments in Canada (all times Eastern):6:55 p.m.Alberta's daily COVID-19 case count has dropped a bit more to 643 and the active case count ...

January 22, 2021

WASHINGTON — Sales of existing homes rose 0.7% in December, pushing the entirety of 2020 to a pace not seen in 14 years and providing one of the few bright spots for a U.S. ...

January 22, 2021

TOKYO — IOC President Thomas Bach and local organizers are pushing back against reports that the postponed Tokyo Olympics will be cancelled.Now set to open July 23, the Tokyo...

January 22, 2021

WASHINGTON — Joe Biden's White House has a lot in common cause with Canada, Justin Trudeau said Friday as he urged people to look past the new U.S. president's decision to ...

January 22, 2021

SEOUL, Korea, Republic Of — Popular South Korean hip-hop trio Epik High was working on a song called "End of the World" before the pandemic hit last year. Now, the band's ...

January 22, 2021

Original "Saved by the Bell" star Dustin Diamond has begun undergoing chemotherapy treatments after being diagnosed with cancer, according to his representative.Diamond, best...

January 22, 2021

AUSTIN, Texas — Dave Chappelle tested positive for the coronavirus just before his comedy show scheduled for Thursday, forcing his upcoming appearances to be cancelled, a ...

January 22, 2021

HALIFAX — The public inquiry into the April mass shooting in Nova Scotia has announced the hiring of six experts who will help set a course for the investigation.Those ...

January 22, 2021

WUHAN, China — Two new films about Wuhan were released Friday, the eve of the anniversary of the start of a 76-day lockdown in the central Chinese city where the coronavirus ...

January 22, 2021

MOSCOW — The Kremlin on Friday welcomed U.S. President Joe Biden’s proposal to extend the last remaining nuclear arms control treaty between the two countries, which is set ...

January 22, 2021

LONDON — It's still not time for "No Time to Die."Producers of the forthcoming James Bond thriller say the film's release has been delayed again, until the fall of 2021, ...

January 22, 2021

In The News is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to kick-start your day. Here is what's on the radar of our editors for the morning of Jan. 22 ...What we ...

January 22, 2021

OTTAWA — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's admission Friday that he might have to improve the vetting for high-level appointments sparked criticism over why he didn't figure ...

January 22, 2021

EDMONTON — Political analysts say Premier Jason Kenney must rethink his traditional "fight back" approach and start building bridges to reconcile environmental concerns with ...

January 22, 2021

OTTAWA — Internal reports prepared by Veterans Affairs Canada show Canadian veterans have been waiting longer and longer in recent years to access psychiatric services and ...

January 21, 2021

BEIJING — Shanghai has imposed lockdowns on two of China's best-known hospitals after they were linked to new coronavirus cases.Outpatient services have been suspended at ...

January 21, 2021

CHICAGO — An Illinois man was ordered held without bond Thursday for allegedly threatening the lives of President Joe Biden and other Democrats before this week's ...

January 21, 2021

SAN DIEGO — In the days before Joe Biden became president, construction crews worked quickly to finish Donald Trump’s wall at an iconic cross-border park overlooking the ...

January 21, 2021

PORTLAND, Ore. — The U.S. Bureau of Land Management in the final days of the Trump administration issued a grazing permit to Oregon ranchers whose imprisonment sparked the ...

January 21, 2021

PUNE, India — At least five people were killed in a fire that broke out Thursday at a building under construction at Serum Institute of India, the world’s largest vaccine ...

January 21, 2021

WASHINGTON — After an unexplained delay, the Pentagon announced plans Thursday to move ahead with a military trial for three men held at the U.S. base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba...

January 21, 2021

WASHINGTON — Seven Democratic senators on Thursday asked the Senate Ethics Committee to investigate the actions of Republican Sens. Ted Cruz and Josh Hawley "to fully ...

January 21, 2021

WASHINGTON — Dr. Anthony Fauci is back.In truth, the nation’s leading infectious-diseases expert never really went away. But after enduring nearly a year of darts and ...

January 21, 2021

NEW YORK — A lawyers' group filed an ethics complaint against Rudy Giuliani with New York's courts, calling for him to be investigated and his law license suspended over his ...

January 21, 2021

Battered by criticism that the 2020 census was dangerously politicized by the Trump administration, the U.S. Census Bureau under a new Biden administration has the tall task ...

January 21, 2021

MEXICO CITY — Mexico posted new one-day highs for the pandemic Thursday, with 22,339 newly confirmed coronavirus infections and 1,803 deaths from COVID-19 recorded for the ...

January 21, 2021

The latest numbers on COVID-19 vaccinations in Canada as of 4 a.m. ET on Friday, Jan. 22, 2021.In Canada, the provinces are reporting 42,622 new vaccinations administered for...

January 21, 2021

WASHINGTON — Opening arguments in the Senate impeachment trial for Donald Trump over the Capitol riot will begin the week of Feb. 8, the first time a former president will ...

January 21, 2021

BERLIN — World leaders breathed an audible sigh of relief that the United States under President Joe Biden is rejoining the global effort to curb climate change, a cause that...

January 21, 2021

NEW YORK — Nothing illustrates the political passions of a television network's audience quite like ratings for a presidential inaugural.The 6.53 million people who watched ...

January 21, 2021

The latest numbers of confirmed COVID-19 cases in Canada as of 7:30 p.m. ET on Thursday, Jan. 21, 2021.There are 731,450 confirmed cases in Canada._ Canada: 731,450 confirmed...

January 21, 2021

OTTAWA — "Every employee in the government of Canada has the right to work in a safe and healthy environment, and we will always take this very seriously. Today's ...

January 21, 2021

BRUSSELS — The European Union used a video summit of its 27 leaders Thursday to call on Russia to immediately release opposition leader Alexei Navalny and make sure that his ...

January 21, 2021

OTTAWA — Some questions and answers about what happens when a governor general suddenly leaves office.Who does the job in the meantime?The usual term for a governor general ...

January 21, 2021

OTTAWA — Oct. 2, 2017: Julie Payette is sworn in as Canada's fourth female Governor General, taking over from David Johnston.Nov. 1, 2017: Payette takes on fake news and ...

January 21, 2021

The role of Canada's vice-regal has been held by a wide variety of people, from British nobles to military leaders to humanitarian advocates. Here is a list of all those who ...

January 21, 2021

FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. — On the first day of Joe Biden's presidency, Native Americans had reason to celebrate. Biden halted construction of the border wall that threatened to ...

January 21, 2021

OTTAWA — Here are quick facts about Julie Payette, who resigned as governor general on Thursday:Age: 57Hometown: MontrealEducation: Attended primary and secondary school in ...