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SIDNEY, B.C. - An unusual story of adoption and survival is unfolding in a bald eagle’s nest in Sidney on Vancouver Island. An eagle is raising several of its own young but has also hatched an e...

NEW YORK - With television networks setting aside regular programming to mark the moment Thursday, former FBI Director James Comey’s testimony before Congress on the investigation into Russian m...

BOSTON - It was a simple act of kindness by a complete stranger, but it left a lasting impression on a young Polish boy escaping the horrors of Nazi death camps. Steve Ross searched for decades for th...

WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump has said he wants to do “a big number” on the Obama-era financial rules devised after the Great Recession, and House Republicans were poised to fulfil t...

CARACAS, Venezuela - It was 10 a.m. and the newly promoted lieutenant was already sweating under his plastic face shield and black flak jacket. A few days before, the 28-year-old who goes by the name ...

RIO DE JANEIRO - Brazil’s top electoral court is considering whether to annul what is left of President Michel Temer’s term because of allegations his 2014 campaign ticket received illegal...

IRBIL, Iraq - After days of shelling by Iraqi forces, some 200 residents decided to take their chances and flee from one of the last pockets of Mosul controlled by the Islamic State group. They made i...

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. - This year’s recipient of an award named for an Associated Press photographer killed in Afghanistan is a photojournalist who captures the quiet dignity of women and girls w...

ANNAPOLIS, Md. - Attorneys for a man convicted of killing his high school sweetheart, and whose story is at the centre of the popular podcast “Serial,” will argue Thursday that he deserves...

ATLANTA - More than 70 years ago, a U.S. Army bomber plane dubbed “Hot as Hell” was headed for India on a supply mission. It never arrived, and no one went looking for the doomed aircraft ...