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Six days before D-Day, Max Meisels and his fellow Jewish soldiers got an order from their commanding officer. "If the Germans catch you, you're dead," the officer told them. "You have 1...

MEDICINE HAT, AB - The 2022 Special Olympic Canada Summer Games could be coming to Medicine Hat.On Monday June 3, city council will decide whether to submit a $300,000 bid to host the event.An enthusi...

WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court will not take up a challenge to a Pennsylvania school district's policy allowing transgender students to use bathrooms and locker rooms that correspond with their sexual...

PARIS - Roger Federer entered a refurbished Court Philippe Chatrier for his first French Open match since 2015, greeted by the sun peeking through the clouds and the full-throated support of spectator...

WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court is upholding an Indiana law that requires abortion providers to dispose of aborted fetuses in the same way as human remains. But the justices are staying out of the deba...

OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is remaining mum on the ratification timeline for the new North American free-trade agreement but he says Canada will be aligning itself "very much" with the pac...

LIMA, Peru - A powerful magnitude 8.0 earthquake struck a remote part of the Amazon jungle in Peru early Sunday, collapsing buildings and knocking out power to some areas but causing only one reported...

BERLIN - Police in western Germany say divine intervention saved a speeding driver from getting a ticket, after a pigeon photobombed a traffic enforcement camera at just the right moment. Perhaps insp...

OTTAWA - A Canadian high-tech pioneer says a "toxic" social media business model is a threat to democracy.  Jim Balsillie, the retired chief executive of Research In Motion, which invented the Bl...

PARIS - Canada's Felix Auger-Aliassime called his decision to pull out of the French Open one of the more difficult he's had to make in his young tennis career. The 18-year-old from Montreal pulled ou...