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WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump had plenty to talk about during his latest big campaign rally, regaling a friendly crowd in New Jersey with his thoughts about impeachment, the economy, the border ...

LISBON, Portugal - An A380 passenger plane left Portugal on Thursday en route to pick up hundreds of Europeans in China who want to escape the new virus and Italian authorities were keeping some 6,000...

BEIJING - China counted 170 deaths from a new virus Thursday and more countries reported infections, including some spread locally, as foreign evacuees from China's worst-hit region returned home to m...

PARIS - A French appeals court on Thursday acquitted a French cardinal of covering up the sexual abuse of minors in his flock. The appeals court in the southeastern French city of Lyon gave no explana...

LONDON - The Bank of England on Thursday opted against cutting interest rates after a run of fairly firm economic data in the past week eased fears about a dramatic slowdown in the British economy. Th...

CHICAGO - Charges have been filed against the parents of a 1-year-old boy who was shot in the head as his parents struggled over a gun inside a Chicago home, police said. Travis McCoy, 26, was charged...

Public health officials in Ontario will hold a media briefing to provide updates on the province's ongoing response to the new coronavirus. Dr. David Williams, Ontario's Chief Medical O...

EDMONTON - Forward Zack Kassian has signed a four-year contract extension with the Edmonton Oilers. The 29-year-old from Windsor, Ont., and the club agreed to a deal averaging US$3.20 m...

OTTAWA - The federal Conservatives want the RCMP watchdog to review the police force's refusal to launch a criminal investigation into whether Prime Minister Justin Trudeau broke the la...

BERLIN - A man confirmed as Germany's first case of the new virus that emerged in central China is believed to have been infected by a Chinese colleague who visited his workplace, authorities said. An...