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OTTAWA - One of the unions representing workers at Veterans Affairs Canada is alleging widespread harassment and discrimination within the department following a survey of its members.The Union of Vet...

WASHINGTON - Vice-President Kamala Harris has spent her first two weeks in office working with the president on coronavirus relief, consulting with the head of the World Health Organization and talkin...

WASHINGTON - Tom Vilsack, President Joe Biden's nominee for secretary of agriculture, pledged Tuesday to focus on climate change initiatives and work to address racial inequities in agricultural assis...

Earth spiked a bit of a fever in 2020, partly because of cleaner air from the pandemic lockdown, a new study found. For a short time, temperatures in some places in the eastern United States, Russia a...

NEW YORK - Now, even the pros on Wall Street are asking if the stock market has shot too high. U.S. stocks have been on a nearly nonstop rip higher since March, up roughly 70% to record heights and ca...

LETHBRIDGE, AB - After being forced to postpone last summer, the Alberta Summer Games have been cancelled.The event was originally scheduled for July 2020 in Lethbridge but was put on hold due to COVI...

MUSKOGEE, Okla. - Six people, including five young children, were shot to death early Tuesday at a home in Oklahoma, and a 25-year-old man suspected in the killings was taken into custody, police said...

EDMONTON - A man accused of killing a woman who was found dead in a bathtub in his Edmonton hotel room says he lied to a number of people before his arrest. Bradley Barton, who is 52 and from Mississa...

WASHINGTON - The Senate confirmed Alejandro Mayorkas on Tuesday as President Joe Biden's homeland security secretary, the first Latino to fill a post that will have a central role in the government's ...

EDMONTON, AB - Thefts of and from motor vehicles have decreased during the COVID-19 pandemic.That's according to Alberta RCMP. Mounties compared data in RCMP jurisdictions from March to December 2019 ...