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Montreal's mayor is calling on Ottawa to take stronger action on banning handguns after a 15-year-old girl died in a drive-by shooting in the city on Sunday. Valerie Plante told the city's executive c...

ATLANTA - A Georgia prosecutor said Wednesday that she has opened a criminal investigation into "attempts to influence" last year's general election, including a call in which President Donald Trump a...

OTTAWA - A new report from the parliamentary budget officer says the government may be slightly underestimating how much revenue it could receive from taxing online services like Netflix.As it is, for...

JUNEAU, Alaska - Alaska's governor has issued a disaster declaration and released funds for a southwest village more than three weeks after a fire destroyed the community's only source of drinking wat...

WASHINGTON - Prosecutors unveiled chilling new security video in Donald Trump's impeachment trial on Wednesday, showing the mob of rioters breaking into the Capitol, smashing windows and doors and sea...

OTTAWA - The federal Liberal government is promising cash-strapped cities billions of dollars in permanent funding for their public-transit systems - though most of the money won't start flowing until...

CHICAGO - The Chicago Teachers Union has approved a deal with the nation's third-largest school district to get students back to class during the coronavirus pandemic, union officials announced early ...

The latest numbers on COVID-19 vaccinations in Canada as of 4 a.m. ET on Wednesday, Feb. 10, 2021. In Canada, the provinces are reporting 25,230 new vaccinations administered for a total of 1,123,563 ...

OTTAWA - Researchers studying Canadian history have not been able to access Library and Archive Canada's collections during COVID-19 lockdowns - a situation that forced some to put off their research ...

CALGARY - A judge is to hear arguments this week over whether Alberta's public inquiry into the purported foreign funding of environmental charities is a valid defence of the province's ailing oil ind...