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WASHINGTON - The Senate voted overwhelmingly Tuesday to confirm Rhode Island Gov. Gina Raimondo to serve as President Joe Biden's commerce secretary and help guide the economy's recovery during and af...

WASHINGTON - A federal official says the COVID-19 pandemic has demonstrated an urgent need for fortified North American supply chains. Michael Grant, assistant deputy minister for the Americas with Gl...

The news they will be able to reopen, when they are ready, came as quite a surprise to officials at the Grande Prairie Public Library.On Monday, Premier Jason Kenney announced that effective immediate...

SALT LAKE CITY - A Utah girl whose football skills won her fame online has lost her court bid to have school districts create football teams for girls. A federal judge ruled against Sam Gordon on Mond...

OTTAWA - Environment Minister Jonathan Wilkinson says there is no path to eliminating greenhouse-gas emissions without eliminating coal power but critics say Canada's leadership is tainted as long as ...

KINGSTON, Jamaica - Bunny Wailer, a reggae luminary who was the last surviving member of the legendary group The Wailers, died on Tuesday in his native Jamaica. He was 73. Wailer, a baritone singer wh...

OTTAWA - The federal government is telling an appeal court it had to provide U.S. authorities with customer information from Canadian banks to avoid possibly "catastrophic effects" on Canada's economy...

NEW YORK - Toronto Maple Leafs centre Auston Matthews has been named the North Division's player of the month for February. Matthews led the NHL with 12 goals and placed second with 21 points in 11 ga...

In the opening moments of a Golden Globes night even more chaotic and confounding than usual, co-host Tina Fey raised a theoretical question: "Could this whole night have been an email?" Only the next...

NEW YORK - When Eddie Murphy made the original "Coming to America," he was, almost indisputably, the funniest man in America. Murphy was at the very height of his fame, coming off "Beverly Hills Cop I...