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CARACAS, Venezuela - Venezuelans confused over the new banknotes popping out of their ATMs on Tuesday resorted to using calculators and conversion charts to figure out the value of each bill as the co...

TORONTO - Given Toronto FC’s up-and-down season, perhaps it’s no surprise that the team’s flight home from San Francisco was cancelled Sunday. The team had been scheduled to land in ...

OTTAWA - The Liberal government lifted the veil on what it billed Tuesday as a bold plan to strike a blow against poverty across Canada by the end of the next decade - but the plan is absent any new s...

HALIFAX - The Archbishop of Halifax says the Roman Catholic church is in crisis and there is an urgent need for change. Archbishop Anthony Mancini has condemned new reports of sexual abuse by priests,...

NEWBURGH, N.Y. - A private jet carrying rapper Post Malone blew two tires during takeoff at a small New Jersey airport on Tuesday but made a safe emergency landing hours later in upstate New York, pro...

OTTAWA - Justice Minister Jody Wilson-Raybould says she will look at possible changes to a law forbidding jurors from talking about closed-door deliberations - a secrecy provision that prevents stress...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska - Anchorage police are looking for a man who dumped fish heads in woods near an elementary school. The perpetrator won’t have to clean up. A grizzly bear took care of that. The...

VANCOUVER - The British Columbia Court of Appeal has ordered a new trial for the former leader of a religious sect who was acquitted of taking a 15-year-old girl across the U.S. border for a sexual pu...

MONTREAL - A Quebec coroner says a man’s death last December was caused by a combination of cold medication and four cans of a sugary high-alcohol drink. Pierre Parent, 30, drank two cans of Fou...

STONEHAM, Mass. - Maybe she just had a few babies to deliver. A Boston-area zoo is looking for a female stork that flew away last week and has evaded experts since. The Stone Zoo in Stoneham posted on...