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WASHINGTON - There’s no sign of foot-dragging at the Office of Government Ethics despite President Donald Trump’s complaint that it has “become very difficult to deal with” as ...

WASHINGTON - Attorney General Jeff Sessions gave more than two hours of sometimes heated testimony to Congress, with Democrats demanding details of matters including conversations with President Donal...

WASHINGTON - A top aide to President Donald Trump suggested that special counsel Robert Mueller is biased even as the White House worked to end a day of speculation over whether the president is consi...

WASHINGTON - Democratic lawmakers are suing President Donald Trump over foreign money flowing into his global business empire. Almost 200 senators and representatives are plaintiffs in a lawsuit alleg...

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan - A suicide bomber targeted a checkpoint run by rival insurgents in Afghanistan’s southern Helmand province Wednesday, killing nine of them, an Afghan official said. Mohamm...

BEIRUT - The U.S.-led coalition fighting the Islamic State group in Iraq and Syria is endangering civilians by using artillery-delivered white phosphorous, Human Rights Watch said Wednesday, after rep...

WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump’s labeling of a House-passed health care bill as “mean” is aggravating some of the conservatives he pressed to back it, even as Senate attempts to...

CANBERRA, Australia - The Australian government has reached a settlement of around 90 million Australian dollars ($68 million) with more than 1,900 asylum seekers who sued over their treatment at an i...

DOHA, Qatar - Qatar said Wednesday it has pulled all of its troops from the border of Djibouti and Eritrea, east African nations that have a long-running territorial dispute which Doha had helped medi...

BURNABY, B.C. - Olympic bronze medallist Mark McMorris has begun his comeback from a life-threatening snowboarding accident earlier this year. The Regina native is working at a rehab centre in Burnaby...