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MADRID - Venezuela's longtime spy chief was arrested Friday in Madrid by Spanish police acting on a United States warrant for allegedly trafficking tons of cocaine. Maj. Gen. Hugo Carvajal, who for mo...

OTTAWA - A House of Commons committee says the government should offer financial incentives to political parties to nominate more women candidates to run for election. This is one of 14 reco...

MONTE CARLO - Canada's Felix Auger-Aliassime has been given a wild card into the Monte-Carlo Masters next week. The 18-year-old from Montreal is ranked 33rd in the world after a strong start to 2019, ...

OTTAWA - Public Safety Minister Ralph Goodale says future reports on terrorist threats to Canada will not refer to Sikh extremism and instead use "extremists who support violent means to establis...

OKLAHOMA CITY - Oklahoma's new Republican Gov. Kevin Stitt is taking a shot at the "American Ninja Warrior" obstacle course outside the state capitol in Oklahoma City. Organizers of the reality televi...

CALGARY - Alberta NDP Leader Rachel Notley says she hasn't campaigned with the federal party leader because her focus is on what's best for the province - including pipelines. During a campaign stop i...

HOUSTON - An actor and spokesman for the discount hotel website Trivago.com (tree-VAH'-goh) has been arrested in Texas on a misdemeanour driving while intoxicated charge. Court records show 52-year-ol...

TORONTO - Former Canada captain Kevin McKenna and Randee Hermus have been named to the Canada Soccer Hall of Fame. McKenna, 39, won 63 caps for Canada between May 2000 and October 2012, serv...

UNDERHILL, Vt. - A Vermont girl isn't happy that her disabled pet chicken was joked about on "Saturday Night Live." The chicken, named Granite Heart, is learning to walk with a custom wheelchair. On a...

OTTAWA - Andrew Scheer did his level best Wednesday to provoke Prime Minister Justin Trudeau into following through on his threat to sue him over allegedly libellous criticism of the SNC-Lav...