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Halifax students will be getting a daily reminder that their schools sit on traditional Mi’kmaq territory starting this fall. The Halifax Regional School Board unanimously agreed late Wednesday ...

WASHINGTON - Senate Republicans launched their plan for shriveling Barack Obama’s health care law Thursday, edging a step closer to their dream of repeal with a bill that would slice and reshape...

CALGARY- Alberta Liberal Leader David Khan is demanding the government introduce strict regulations for political action committees (PACs) to stop unscrupulous right-wing fundraising. Khan states Jaso...

LONDON - Boys at a British high school have found a novel way around strict uniform rules banning shorts, as the country swelters through a heatwave. The schoolboys at Isca Academy in the southwestern...

NEW YORK - Preet Bharara, the former U.S. Attorney fired earlier this year by President Donald Trump, has a book deal. Alfred A. Knopf announced Thursday that Bharara was working on a book about the &...

TORONTO - Sears Canada Inc. (TSX:SCC) plans to close 59 locations and cut approximately 2,900 jobs as part of its plan to restructure its business under court protection from creditors. Among the loca...

BANGUI, Central African Republic - Simplice Lenguy told his wife to leave him behind as people fled when fighting broke out in Central African Republic’s capital. “I said, ‘Take the ...

CAIRO - Census workers going door to door in Egypt’s teeming neighbourhoods and crowded towns are discovering a new country - of more than 20 million people born in the last decade alone. Family...

ROME, Maine - Army Staff Sgt. Travis Mills awoke in a hospital on his 25th birthday to learn that an explosion in Afghanistan had robbed him of all four limbs. He later told his wife to take their dau...

MILWAUKEE - A Milwaukee jury needed less than two days of deliberations to acquit a former police officer in the on-duty shooting of a black man last year that sparked two nights of violence on the ci...