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WASHINGTON - Democrats controlling the House have teed up a vote next week to block President Donald Trump from using a national emergency declaration to fund a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border, acce...

TOKYO - Japan's Emperor Akihito attended a ceremony on Sunday to mark the 30th year of his reign while calling for the country to embrace openness in a more globalized world. The government-sponsored ...

CHICAGO - While on trial for child pornography in 2008, R. Kelly still found time to talk to fans, give autographs and to meet an underage girl he later invited to his home, according to prosecutors w...

ST. JOHN'S, N.L. - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau stressed the economic importance of supporting research and innovation in a time of economic uncertainty as he wrapped up a East Coast tour i...

CHICAGO - Actor Jussie Smollett is accused of staging a racist, anti-gay attack on himself in Chicago in January in a celebrity scandal that has captured attention online and in the media. Smollett is...

SAINT JOHN, N.B. - A tense cross-examination of the final prosecution witness at the Dennis Oland murder trial has raised new questions about the time Richard Oland was killed. John Ainsworth, the own...

BURNABY, B.C. - The stakes are high for NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh in a Metro Vancouver byelection race, but an expert says recent Liberal turmoil has been a "gift" to his campaign. The 40-yea...

MONTREAL - Julia Sanchez, the NDP's candidate in Monday's Outremont byelection, says people in the riding talk to her about climate change, wealth inequality - and sometimes what the leader of he...

COLUMBUS, Miss. - A tornado smashed into a commercial district in the small Mississippi city of Columbus, shattering businesses as severe storms raked the South on a weekend of drenching rains and a r...

MILAN - Anna Wintour paid tribute Friday to Karl Lagerfeld's generosity and sense of humour as she presented a new fashion exhibition. Elsewhere in Milan, Versace unveiled its first womenswear collect...