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OTTAWA - The crisis in Afghanistan - alongside the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic - has thrown up an alarming backdrop to the federal election, which could overshadow campaign efforts by Liberal Leader Jus...

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) - Western nations warned Thursday of a possible attack on Kabul's airport, where thousands have flocked as they try to flee Taliban-controlled Afghanistan in the waning days of...

DETROIT (AP) - Nine lawyers allied with former President Donald Trump face financial penalties and other sanctions after a judge Wednesday said they had abused the court system with a lawsuit that cha...

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (AP) - A man upset over state-ordered coronavirus restrictions was sentenced to just over six years in prison Wednesday for planning to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, a sig...

YELLOWKNIFE - The Northwest Territories has reinstated its mask mandate amid a growing number of COVID-19 cases. Masks will be mandatory in all indoor public spaces starting Thursday morning. The terr...

WASHINGTON (AP) - Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Wednesday that as many as 1,500 Americans may be awaiting evacuation from Afghanistan, a figure that suggests this part of the U.S.-led airlift...

EDMONTON - Alberta reported more than 1,000 new cases of COVID-19 on Wednesdaybut, along with Saskatchewan, is not planning to follow broad mask mandates announced this week by neighbouring western pr...

WHITEHORSE - Yukon will lift its civil state of emergency put in place due to the COVID-19 pandemic as it shifts to targeting specific outbreaks, Premier Sandy Silver said Wednesday. He said certain h...

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) - A federal appeals court Wednesday upheld Dylann Roof's conviction and death sentence for the 2015 racist slayings of nine members of a Black South Carolina congregation, saying th...

PIERRE, S.D. (AP) - South Dakota Attorney General Jason Ravnsborg will avoid a trial and take a plea deal for misdemeanor traffic charges in a crash last year in which he hit and killed a man who was ...