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TORONTO - Connor McDavid and Auston Matthews may never again line up together wearing the same colours, but if head coach Todd McLellan has his way the concept of Team North America will live on at th...

CHARLOTTE, N.C. - The Latest on protests in Charlotte, North Carolina, over the fatal police shooting of a black man (all times local): 12:30 a.m. Charlotte police say they don’t plan to forcibl...

WASHINGTON - Americans retreated from home-buying in August, as a worsening inventory shortage appears to be hurting sales and pushing prices higher. Housing has been a bright spot amid weak economic ...

LONDON - A quiz-show champion who appeared on the long-running BBC show “Eggheads” has been arrested over an alleged murder, after writing in a memoir that he might have killed a man in Am...

IQALUIT, Nunavut - Nunavut RCMP say a bomb threat that caused evacuations at schools in three regions of the territory was a hoax. Mounties say all elementary schools, high schools and colleges have b...

HALIFAX - Shell Canada may have abandoned the first of its deepwater wells off Nova Scotia, but questions remain on what to do about an undersea coil of steel pipes - each weighing at least 20 tonnes ...

DEARBORN HEIGHTS, Mich. - A Detroit-area man who served 16 years in prison for killing his first wife was charged Thursday with killing his two children and two stepchildren, and torturing his wife. P...

OTTAWA - A longtime refugee advocate says stories such as that of Liberal MP Maryam Monsef are not uncommon as families fleeing war and violence reconstruct their past in a new land. Monsef, widely to...

OTTAWA - A new report by human rights researchers urges Canada to urgently find alternatives to locking up child migrants, saying the practice has a harmful and lasting effect on already vulnerable ne...

WASHINGTON - Long-term U.S. mortgage rates edged lower this week. Mortgage giant Freddie Mac says the average for the 30-year fixed-rate mortgage declined to 3.48 per cent from 3.50 per cent last week...