February 20, 2019

NEW YORK — Who's the best wing woman on the planet? That would be Malika Haqq.The Khloe Kardashian bestie has taken to social media amid a swirl of rumours that Tristan ...

February 20, 2019

MONTGOMERY, Ala. — Republican Congressman Bradley Byrne of Alabama announced Wednesday that he will challenge U.S. Sen. Doug Jones in 2020 as the GOP tries to reclaim the ...

February 20, 2019

MONTREAL — Quebec's Revenue Department is trying to seize the assets of a former SNC-Lavalin executive facing trial on fraud-related charges after estimating he owes the ...

February 20, 2019

LOS ANGELES — Fired FBI deputy director Andrew McCabe's headline-making interview on CBS' news magazine proved a TV audience grabber as well.The program ranked as the third ...

February 20, 2019

LONDON — The Latest on the Brit Awards ceremony (all times local):10:30 p.m.The U.K. music industry's Brit Awards have been handed out during a slick, surprise-free ceremony ...

February 20, 2019

OTTAWA — A chronology of events in the SNC-Lavalin controversy:Feb. 19, 2015 — The RCMP lays corruption and fraud charges against Montreal-based engineering and construction ...

February 20, 2019

VICTORIA — Business leaders say they're concerned the British Columbia government's budget pays too little attention to the potential impacts of a slowing global economy and ...

February 20, 2019

HOUSTON — Prosecutors will review more than 1,400 criminal cases that involved a Houston officer who the police chief has accused of lying in an affidavit justifying a drug ...

February 20, 2019

Prime-time viewership numbers compiled by Nielsen for Feb. 11-17. Listings include the week's ranking and viewership.1. "NCIS," CBS, 13.4 million.2. "America's Got Talent ...

February 20, 2019

MILAN — Gucci creative director Alessandro Michele says the blackface controversy has had a deep impact on the company and provided a learning experience for everyone.Michele...

February 20, 2019

MADISON, Wis. — Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers vetoed a GOP income tax cut bill Wednesday in an early showdown with legislative Republicans who had moved to weaken the Democrat's ...

February 20, 2019

LONDON — Home-grown talents Dua Lipa, Anne-Marie and George Ezra led the nominations for the U.K. music industry's Brit Awards during a ceremony that opened Wednesday with a ...

February 20, 2019

HALIFAX — At 30 years of age, Syrian refugee Kawthar Barho had seen her share of suffering and death before she came to Canada with her family.Together with her husband ...

February 20, 2019

NEW YORK — On a year where one of the lead Oscar contenders is titled "The Favourite," the 91st Academy Awards lack a clear front-runner.Normally a fairly predictable process...

February 20, 2019

OTTAWA — A diminished version of the United We Roll convoy left Ottawa Wednesday afternoon, words of support from one more Conservative MP trailing behind."Listen, we stand ...

February 20, 2019

IQALUIT, Nunavut — As Nunavut approaches the 20th anniversary of its creation, the territory has tabled a mostly stand-pat budget that plans modest spending increases to ...

February 20, 2019

MONTREAL — The Quebec government is being taken to court over its decision to cancel a backlog of more than 18,000 immigration applications as it overhauls its system for ...

February 20, 2019

OTTAWA — Finance Minister Bill Morneau will introduce the Liberal government's pre-election budget on March 19 in a document expected to touch the issues of prescription drug...

February 20, 2019

WASHINGTON — Federal Reserve policymakers last month noted greater threats to the U.S. economy, ranging from adverse effects of the government shutdown to rising trade ...

February 20, 2019

CALGARY — A Calgary man has started an online petition with the hope of revoking day parole for a woman who was imprisoned for his little girl's death.Ryan McGrath's daughter...

February 20, 2019

BERLIN — Commodities giant Glencore said Wednesday it will cap how much coal it mines amid shareholder pressure for it to help reduce global emissions of greenhouse gases.The...

February 20, 2019

EDMONTON — Opposition Leader Jason Kenney says if he wins the spring election, he will try to cancel Alberta's $3.7-billion deal with Canada's two largest railways to ship ...

February 20, 2019

MONTREAL — The case of a Quebec man accused of killing his ailing wife is now in the hands of a jury.Jurors were sequestered Wednesday to determine the fate of Michel Cadotte...

February 20, 2019

OTTAWA — An Amnesty International report alleging human-rights abuses by Venezuelan forces loyal to President Nicolas Maduro represents one more example of a "despicable" ...

February 20, 2019

Canada's top Catholic bishop says he hopes to emphasize the importance of believing victims when he discusses sexual abuse with his international counterparts during a ...

February 20, 2019

OAK BAY, B.C. — A contraception program to reduce the population of habituated, urban deer is one step closer in the Victoria-area District of Oak Bay.Councillors have ...

February 20, 2019

OTTAWA — Executives from some of the world's largest digital and social media firms have been invited to appear before an international committee on disinformation and "fake ...

February 20, 2019

HALIFAX — A top Canadian naval officer is out 50 rare coins he valued at $38,000 with little to show for it, after a Nova Scotia small claims court found FedEx Canada not ...

February 20, 2019

OTTAWA — Ontario NDP MP Charlie Angus says the death of a 48-year-old woman in Cat Lake First Nation is shaking up community residents and he doesn't know what it will take ...

February 20, 2019

OTTAWA — The NDP cannot turn to the courts to overturn a five-year-old order by a parliamentary committee to repay as much as $2.7 million in expenses the committee said were...

February 20, 2019

NEW YORK — President Donald Trump's former lawyer and fixer Michael Cohen was granted a few more weeks of freedom Wednesday after his lawyers said he's still recovering from ...

February 20, 2019

LOS ANGELES — At the glad-handy Oscar nominees luncheon earlier this month, film academy president John Bailey proudly told the 171 nominees in the room that there were a ...

February 20, 2019

CHICAGO — The Latest on the attack reported by Jussie Smollett (all times local):7:50 p.m.Attorneys for Jussie Smollett say they will mount an "aggressive defence" of the "...

February 20, 2019

OTTAWA — Canada will not sign on to an amendment to an international treaty that would fully ban developed countries like Canada from shipping hazardous waste, including ...

February 20, 2019

The federal government is taking extra steps to find out if Canadians are still OK with killing wildlife in what one scientist calls "one of the worst ways to die on earth."...

February 20, 2019

OTTAWA — Representatives for SNC-Lavalin hustled to connect with federal prosecutors after the Liberal government quietly introduced a proposal last year to allow ...

February 20, 2019

OTTAWA — A federal plan to spend $638 million on housing for Indigenous people living in cities and urban areas won't provide enough money or address the basic causes of ...

February 20, 2019

TULSA, Okla. — Authorities say an Oklahoma man stole a Pepsi truck as the driver was unloading soda in the back.Tulsa police say no one was hurt. The driver jumped out of the...

February 20, 2019

SALT LAKE CITY — Gwyneth Paltrow said Wednesday in a court filing that a man who accused her in a lawsuit of crashing into him at a Utah ski resort was actually the culprit ...

February 20, 2019

OTTAWA — A new poll conducted by Leger for The Canadian Press shows that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is taking a personal hit in the SNC-Lavalin controversy.Overall, 41 per...

February 20, 2019

WEST WARWICK, R.I. — Rhode Island is marking the 16th anniversary of a nightclub fire that killed 100 people and injured more than 200.The Feb. 20, 2003, fire was started ...

February 20, 2019

CHICAGO — "Empire" actor and R&B singer Jussie Smollett told Chicago police last month that two men physically attacked him and yelled racial and homophobic slurs. Some key ...

February 20, 2019

NASHVILLE — Chris Stapleton and Dan + Shay lead the 54th Academy of Country Music Awards with six nominations each while Grammy album of the year winner Kacey Musgraves comes...

February 20, 2019

CARACAS, Venezuela — Dueling concerts are being staged this week on both sides of Venezuela's border with Colombia. After billionaire Richard Branson announced an aid concert...

February 20, 2019

NEW YORK — A judge who ruled an aspiring actress can use sex trafficking laws to sue Harvey Weinstein seemed reluctant at a hearing Wednesday to let his decision be appealed ...

February 20, 2019

EILAT, Israel — As the outlook for coral reefs across a warming planet grows grimmer, scientists in Israel have discovered a rare glimmer of hope: The corals of the northern ...

February 20, 2019

DENVER — After months of mostly silence from authorities investigating the disappearance of a Colorado mother on Thanksgiving Day, grim details about her suspected demise ...

February 20, 2019

FALLS CHURCH, Va. — The federal government has acknowledged that it shares its terrorist watchlist with more than 1,400 private entities, including hospitals and universities...

February 20, 2019

BRUSSELS — After the resignations of three of her party's lawmakers over Brexit, British Prime Minister Theresa May came away from more talks on preventing the U.K. from ...

February 20, 2019

HANOI, Vietnam — At a barbershop tucked away in a Hanoi alley, Le Phuc Hai patiently waits for the dye to turn his black hair the orange shade of President Donald Trump's ...

February 20, 2019

MARINE MOUNTAIN WARFARE TRAINING CENTER, Calif. — Hunkered down behind a wall of snow, two U.S. Marines melt slush to make drinking water after spending the night digging out...

February 20, 2019

MOSCOW — Russian President Vladimir Putin sternly warned the United States against deploying new missiles in Europe, saying Wednesday that Russia will retaliate by fielding ...

February 20, 2019

TOKYO — With their second summit fast approaching, speculation is growing that U.S. President Donald Trump may try to persuade North Korean leader Kim Jong Un to commit to ...

February 20, 2019

RIMINI, Mont. — Every day many millions of gallons of water loaded with arsenic, lead and other toxic metals flow from some of the most contaminated mining sites in the U.S. ...

February 20, 2019

SAINT JOHN, N.B. — Legal arguments dominated the second-degree murder trial of Dennis Oland on Wednesday and led to an early adjournment before a key prosecution witness ...

February 20, 2019

CHICAGO — "Empire" actor Jussie Smollett turned himself in early Thursday to face accusations that he filed a false police report when he told authorities he was attacked in ...

February 20, 2019

COPENHAGEN — The Faeroe Islands, an 18-island archipelago midway between Iceland and Scotland, is closing for tourists for a weekend in April — unless they want to help ...

February 20, 2019

LONDON — Brexit-driven cracks in Britain's political party system yawned wider Wednesday, as three pro-European lawmakers quit the ruling Conservatives to join a new centrist...

February 20, 2019

OUTSIDE BAGHOUZ, Syria — U.S.-backed Syrian forces fighting the Islamic State group in Syria handed over more than 150 Iraqi members of the group to Iraq, the first batch of ...

February 20, 2019

CAIRO — Egypt on Wednesday executed nine suspected Muslim Brotherhood members convicted of involvement in the 2015 assassination of the country's top prosecutor, security ...

February 20, 2019

PARIS — A French court ordered Switzerland's largest bank, UBS, to pay 4.5 billion euros ($5.1 billion) in fines and damages for helping wealthy French clients evade tax ...

February 20, 2019

MOSCOW — Pavel Otdelnov recalls how as a child he saw his mother boil his parents' bedding every day. His father worked in the factories of Dzerzhinsk, the centre of Soviet ...

February 20, 2019

BEIJING — China said Wednesday it backs Tanzania's sentencing of a Chinese woman labeled the "ivory queen" to 15 years in jail for smuggling elephant tusks, and reaffirmed ...

February 20, 2019

VATICAN CITY — If Pope Francis needed a concrete example to justify summoning church leaders from around the globe to Rome for a tutorial on clergy sex abuse, Sister ...

February 20, 2019

Four stories in the news for Wednesday, Feb. 20———MEMORIAL HELD FOR SYRIAN CHILDREN KILLED IN FIREDozens of people gathered outside the charred remnants of a suburban Halifax...

February 20, 2019

KANO, Nigeria — As emergencies go, it has a catchy tune. Faced with a Nigerian election that could spiral into violence, some in the popular film industry known as Kannywood ...

February 20, 2019

OTTAWA — Liberal MP Jody Wilson-Raybould says she still cannot publicly explain her decision to leave Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's cabinet but is looking forward to ...

February 20, 2019

HALIFAX — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was among the hundreds of people who gathered in Halifax's main square Wednesday night in support of a Syrian refugee family that lost...

February 20, 2019

CARACAS, Venezuela — Jhonny Godoy had taken to Twitter to proclaim his opposition to President Nicolas Maduro, posting a video that showed him running through the streets ...

February 20, 2019

TOKYO — Japan reports its exports tumbled 8.4 per cent in January from a year earlier, as slowing Chinese growth pushed its monthly trade deficit to the highest level in ...

February 20, 2019

WASHINGTON — The FBI developed a backup plan to protect evidence in its Russia investigation soon after the firing of FBI Director James Comey in the event that other senior ...