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WASHINGTON - Trying to tamp down calls for his resignation, Labor Secretary Alex Acosta on Wednesday defended his handling of a sex trafficking case involving now-jailed financier Jeffrey Epstein, ins...

OTTAWA - Some of the federal government's top bureaucrats have been warned that China and India might try to use their respective migrant communities in Canada to advance their own interests. The star...

MONTREAL - Bacary Sagna knows a thing or two about high-pressure derby games. The former Arsenal defender played more than a dozen matches against North London archrival Tottenham Hotspur during his t...

NEW YORK - Volkswagen will invest $2.6 billion into a Pittsburgh autonomous vehicle company that's mostly owned by Ford as the automakers who were once rivals deepen their partnership to develop drive...

WIMBLEDON, England - Roger Federer waited 11 years to get another shot at Rafael Nadal on Centre Court. This one was a semifinal, not a final. It was settled in four sets, not five. Felt like just as ...

CALGARY - Canada's beef industry is getting $8.3 million in federal funds, the bulk of it aimed at growing its international market reach as a trade standoff with China continues. The money is go...

OTTAWA - Canadian wildlife enforcement officers have seized dozens of black-bear parts, diet pills made from endangered African plants and the bodies of two scaly anteaters as...

OTTAWA - The Canadian government is looking for new ideas and technology to protect satellites from natural and artificial threats, according to a tender issued Friday. Satellites are vulnerable ...

WASHINGTON - Most Federal Reserve officials expressed concern at a meeting last month that the outlook for the U.S. economy was weakening, and many said the Fed should soon cut rates if uncertainty co...

LAS VEGAS - Paul George and Kawhi Leonard are now officially with the Los Angeles Clippers, moves that bring both of them back to their native Southern California. It might not be forever: Both can be...