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VANCOUVER - The British Columbia Court of Appeal has unanimously upheld a lower court's dismissal of a Vancouver surgeon's challenge of the Medicare Protection Act, saying bans on extra billing and pr...

BETHLEHEM, West Bank (AP) - During a visit to the Israeli-occupied West Bank on Friday, President Joe Biden offered compassion and financial assistance for hope-starved Palestinians but also delivered...

CALGARY - A horse has been killed after it was injured in a chuckwagon race at the Calgary Stampede. Organizers say in a statement that the horse on Cody Ridsdale's team was hurt during the fourth hea...

SAINT-ETIENNE, France - Canadian rider Hugo Houle finished third in Stage 13 of the Tour de France, narrowly missing Canada's first stage victory in 34 years. The Israel-Premier Tech cyclist from Sain...

OTTAWA - The Supreme Court of Canada says songwriters are entitled to just one royalty - not two - when their music is made available for streaming or downloaded through an online service. The top cou...

BAMAKO, Mali (AP) - The United Nations mission in Mali says that Egypt will withdraw its troops from the West African county by mid-August citing deadly attacks against its peacekeepers. Seven Egyptia...

WASHINGTON (AP) - The House is set to vote Friday on two bills that would restore and guarantee abortion access nationwide as Democrats make their first attempt at responding legislatively to the Supr...

NEW YORK (AP) - Prosecutors are disavowing the convictions of three men who spent decades in prison for one of the most horrifying crimes of New York's violent 1990s - the killing of a clerk who was s...

JEDDAH, Saudi Arabia (AP) - President Joe Biden touched down in Saudi Arabia on Friday, working to bridge a rift between the United States and the kingdom at a moment when concerns about human rights ...

AKRON, Ohio (AP) - Jayland Walker, the 25-year-old Black man killed in a hail of police gunfire in the Ohio city of Akron last month, was shot or grazed 46 times, according to a preliminary autopsy re...