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HUNTINGDON, Pa. - The oldest known living person in the United States is celebrating her 114th birthday in Pennsylvania. The state Aging Department says Delphine Gibson hit the milestone Thursday, get...

BOSTON - New England’s fall foliage forecast is looking so fine it’s enough to make a maple leaf blush. For the first time in several years, little has conspired against a truly glorious a...

MEDFORD, Mass. - Some of the brightest minds in math arrived at Tufts University last week to tackle an issue lawyers and political scientists have been struggling with for decades. They came from col...

Confederate monuments are being removed around the country under pressure from those who say they honour a regime that enslaved African-Americans. The pace has increased, however, in the wake of last ...

ANNAPOLIS, Md. - A statue of the U.S. Supreme Court justice who wrote the 1857 Dred Scott decision that upheld slavery and denied citizenship to African Americans was removed from the grounds of the M...

WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump is being criticized once again for lauding the alleged tactics of Gen. John Pershing in dealing with Islamic extremists in the Philippines at the turn of the last c...

MONTREAL - Duelling weekend protests pitting pro-refugee groups against those opposed to “illegal immigration” have Quebec’s premier worried things might get out of hand. “We (...

GOULDS, N.L. - Newfoundland’s wildly popular Chase the Ace saga will soon fold. The province has approved an exit date of Aug. 30 if the winning card is not drawn next Wednesday at a church on t...

MONTREAL - The Crown is seeking a nine-year prison sentence for a man convicted of attempting to leave Canada to join the Islamic State. The defence has countered with a recommendation of six-and-a-ha...

HAMILTON - A Canadian man accused in a massive hack of Yahoo emails will forgo his extradition hearing and go face the charges in the United States in what his lawyer has called an effort to speed up ...