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TEHRAN, Iran - Iran surpassed 20,000 confirmed deaths from the coronavirus on Wednesday, the health ministry said - the highest death toll for any Middle East country so far in the pandemic. The annou...

PENTICTON, B.C. - Hundreds of residents in British Columbia's southern Okanagan are out of their homes and thousands more must be ready to leave on short notice as a nearby wildfire grows in size...

The Saskatchewan Health Authority (SHA) is alerting individuals of a possibility of COVID-19 exposure through a local business in Battleford and is urging Saskatchewan residents to follow public healt...

CHEYENNE, Wyo. - Rapper and music producer Kanye West's campaign ran into trouble Tuesday on his first day of trying to get on the presidential ballot in his home state of Wyoming. People gathering si...

RICHMOND, Va. - When the bronze equestrian statue of Gen. Robert E. Lee arrived by rail in Richmond from Paris in 1890, it took 10,000 men, women and children to haul its pieces more than a mile to th...

OTTAWA - Thousands of pages of newly released documents back up the Trudeau government's contention that it was federal public servants who recommended a student service grant program be adm...

NEW YORK - Actor Cuba Gooding Jr. is accused of raping a woman twice in a Manhattan hotel room in 2013, according to a lawsuit that escalates the severity of the growing number of claims against him. ...

OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is promising to come back with a new throne speech next month to reset his Liberal government's agenda in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. Trudeau sa...

In The News is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to kickstart your day. Here is what's on the radar of our editors for the morning of Aug. 19 ... What...

FREDERICTON - Progressive Conservative Leader Blaine Higgs is in Moncton today on the second day of New Brunswick's election campaign. Liberal Leader Kevin Vickers will be campaigning in Sai...