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Apple is expanding spending in the U.S. and announced plans Monday to build its first East Coast campus, in North Carolina. The iPhone maker is boosting U.S. spending to $430 billion over the next fiv...

OTTAWA - Western Canada and Ontario say they weren't consulted about the federal government's new goal for cutting greenhouse gas pollution by 2030. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau pledged at a recent g...

The latest news on COVID-19 developments in Canada (all times Eastern): 10:30 a.m. Ontario is reporting 3,510 new cases of COVID-19 today and 24 more deaths attributed to the novel coronavirus. Health...

BRUSSELS - The European Union's executive branch said Monday that it has launched legal action against coronavirus vaccine-maker AstraZeneca for failing to respect the terms of its contract with the 2...

WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court agreed on Monday to hear an appeal to expand gun rights in the United States in a New York case over the right to carry a firearm in public for self-defence. The case ma...

WASHINGTON - Orders for big-ticket manufactured goods rebounded 0.5% in March as U.S. factories recovered from frigid February weather disruptions. It was the tenth gain in the past 11 months and foll...

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates - An Iranian-British woman long held in Tehran has been sentenced to another year in prison, her lawyer said Monday, drawing immediate criticism from Britain in the high pr...

TOKYO - Japan's ruling party lost all three parliamentary byelections held Sunday, loosening Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga's grip on power ahead of national elections later this year. Suga said he tak...

TIRANA, Albania - Preliminary results on Monday showed the ruling Socialist Party ahead in Albania's parliamentary election. With one-third of the votes counted, the left-wing Socialists of Prime Mini...

The Biden administration is expanding a program to feed as many as 34 million schoolchildren during the summer months, using funds from the coronavirus relief package approved in March. The Agricultur...