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OTTAWA - A series of technological and administrative gaps caused a high-profile data breach at Desjardins - the largest to date in the Canadian financial services sector, the federal privacy watchdog...

TORONTO - Ontario will administer the province's first COVID-19 vaccination today, with a health-care worker set to receive the dose in Toronto. Premier Doug Ford's office has said the first shots wil...

ATLANTA - Many Republican voters in Georgia are angry. They're convinced that widespread voter fraud - claims that are baseless - cost President Donald Trump the election to Democrat Joe Biden. But wi...

WASHINGTON - The Electoral College decisively confirmed Joe Biden on Monday as the nation's next president, ratifying his November victory in an authoritative state-by-state repudiation of President D...

ATLANTA - Early in-person voting began Monday in the runoff elections for Georgia's two U.S. Senate seats, with lines reported to be shorter than in the first days of early voting for the general elec...

WASHINGTON - U.S. government agencies and private companies rushed Monday to secure their computer networks following the disclosure of a sophisticated and long-running cyber-espionage intrusion suspe...

OTTAWA - It was out of the political frying pan and into the fire Monday for the Trudeau government's bill to expand access to medically assisted dying. Opening debate on Bill C-7 began in the Senate,...

CAIRO - The U.S. Embassy in Khartoum said Monday that President Donald Trump's administration has removed Sudan from the U.S. list of state sponsors of terrorism, a move that could help the African co...

Former prime minister Brian Mulroney is recovering after undergoing an emergency surgery on Friday. A family spokesman says the "urgent procedure" was a "complete success" and Mulroney was released fr...

OTTAWA - Alfonso Gagliano, a former Liberal cabinet minister who played a key role in the sponsorship scandal of the early 2000s, has died.He was 78.His daughter Imma Gagliano confirmed his death, whi...