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SAN JOSE, Calif. - Advanced Micro Devices is buying Xilinx for $35 billion in an all-stock deal that will combine the two Silicon Valley chip makers and accelerate an already rapid-fire pace of merger...

LONDON - BP plc says third-quarter earnings plunged 96% as the COVID-19 pandemic reduced energy prices and demand. The London-based oil company said Tuesday that profits, excluding one-time items and ...

OTTAWA - A judge says a refugee pact between Canada and the United States will remain in place until a full legal hearing of the measure is resolved.In a new ruling, Federal Court of Appeal Justice Da...

OTTAWA - New data suggests that Canadians are feeling skittish about any future increases in immigration levels for the next 12 months.  Fifty-two per cent of those polled by Leger and the Associ...

FREDERICTON - The man on trial for the 2018 Fredericton mass shooting has begun testifying in his own defence. Matthew Raymond is charged with four counts of first-degree murder in the Aug. 10, 2018 d...

A proposal has been made to continue the CEWS until June 2021, including possible changes to the rates and top-up calculation. Read the October 14 announcement and check back soon for details.Applicat...

LOS ANGELES - From the beloved, "heard there was a secret chord" opening lines of Leonard Cohen's "Hallelujah" to the rousing, children's-choir conclusion of the Rolling Stones' "You Can't Always Get ...

For nearly half a century, they were blowin' in the wind: lost interviews that contained surprising new insights about celebrated singer-songwriter Bob Dylan. Transcripts of the 1971 interviews with t...

LONDON - A British judge will rule next week on whether Johnny Depp was libelled by a tabloid newspaper that branded him a wife-beater - an accusation his lawyer called a "reputation-destroying, caree...

DHAKA, Bangladesh - Around 10,000 people in Bangladesh rallied in the South Asian nation's capital on Tuesday to protest France's president and his staunch support of secular laws that deem caricature...