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BEIJING - Railway journeys in China during the usually frenetic Lunar New Year holiday travel rush are down by almost 70% amid calls for people to stay where they are to avoid a new outbreak of COVID-...

WASHINGTON - A senior adviser to two former U.S. presidents delivered a stark message Friday to Canadians hoping for the resurrection of the Keystone XL pipeline: get over it. The project is gone and ...

Canada's travel landscape could soon change after the federal government approved Air Canada's $190-million purchase of Transat A.T., after COVID-19 diminished the deal's value. Transport Minister Oma...

WASHINGTON - President Joe Biden is hoping that launching an effort to build roads and bridges can help to unite Democrats and Republicans in a time of sharp partisan divisions. Biden met with lawmake...

WASHINGTON - Democrats pushed half of President Joe Biden's $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief plan through a House committee Thursday, advancing $1,400 payments for millions of Americans and other initiat...

CHARLOTTE, N.C. - The smaller, lighter vehicles that women more often drive, and the types of crashes they get into, may explain why they are much more likely to suffer a serious injury in a collision...

OTTAWA - The federal government has announced $55 million in funding to support Canada's clean technology sector. The money is from a pool of $750 million announced in December for Sustainable Develop...

WASHINGTON - The number of Americans seeking unemployment benefits fell slightly last week to 793,000, evidence that job cuts remain high despite a substantial decline in new confirmed viral infection...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - One of the nation's premier nuclear laboratories isn't taking the necessary precautions to guard against wildfires, according to an audit by the U.S. Energy Department's inspector ...

WASHINGTON - Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell on Wednesday underscored the Fed's commitment to reducing unemployment to multi-decade lows, where it stood before the pandemic, while signalling littl...