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NEW YORK - One of the nation’s most respected medical experts, who led the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, entered a courtroom on Friday in handcuffs, arrested on sexual-harassm...

BISMARCK, N.D. - A federal judge has dismissed a second defendant from a $1 billion racketeering lawsuit that the developer of the Dakota Access oil pipeline filed against environmental groups, leavin...

MONTREAL - The Coalition Avenir Quebec is standing firm on a promise to raise the minimum age for cannabis consumption in the province to 21. Recreational marijuana use is set to become the law of the...

NEW YORK - Former President Bill Clinton, Smokey Robinson, the Rev. Jesse Jackson and Cicely Tyson will be among the speakers at Aretha Franklin’s funeral next week. Franklin’s rep, Gwendo...

TORONTO - Prior to meeting reporters after practice Friday, Toronto FC coach Greg Vanney took time out to mingle with pint-sized players attending a summer camp at the MLS team’s training ground...

MISSISSAUGA, Ont. - A Hamilton police officer is under investigation in relation to December’s fatal shooting of a man hailed as a Good Samaritan, Ontario’s police watchdog said on Friday....

HALIFAX - Convicted spy Jeffrey Delisle has already been allowed to take escorted leaves from prison, according to a parole board ruling that offers more details about why he sold secrets to the Russi...

FREDERICTON - Health care was the dominant issue Friday as New Brunswick’s political parties fought for the public’s attention heading into the first weekend of the campaign for the Sept. ...

ALLENTOWN, Pa. - IndyCar said Friday that Canadian driver Robert Wickens underwent surgery this week on his right arm and lower extremities and tests found no additional injuries from his crash at Poc...

WASHINGTON - Presidents and lawmakers from both parties honoured Sen. John McCain’s decades of service to his country in the hours after his death Saturday. President Donald Trump, who once crit...