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New York City will terminate business contracts with President Donald Trump after last week's insurrection at the U.S. Capitol, Mayor Bill de Blasio announced Wednesday. "I'm here to announce that the...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - A historic second day of reckoning looms for Donald Trump. Democrats in the House of Representatives, along with a number of Republicans, are poised to impeach the U.S. president fo...

Coronavirus deaths in the U.S. hit another one-day high at over 4,300 with the country's attention focused largely on the fallout from the deadly uprising at the Capitol. The nation's overall death to...

WASHINGTON - U.S. consumer prices rose 0.4% in December, led by a sharp rise in gasoline prices. The Labor Department said Wednesday that the December increase followed a 0.2% rise in November and no ...

WASHINGTON - President-elect Joe Biden has selected Samantha Power, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations under President Barack Obama, to run the U.S. Agency for International Development. That's...

Canadian Victoria Pickett, a star midfielder at the University of Wisconsin, looks to take the next step in her soccer career Wednesday evening at the NWSL draft. Badgers coach Paula Wilkins, for one,...

HELSINKI - Estonia's prime minister has resigned over a corruption scandal in his Center Party that led to key party officials resigning overnight, and talks began Wednesday among political parties ab...

In The News is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to kickstart your day. Here is what's on the radar of our editors for the morning of Jan. 13 ... What we are watching in Canada ......

TOKYO - Japan expanded a coronavirus state of emergency for seven more prefectures Wednesday, affecting more than half the population amid a surge in infections across the country. Prime Minister Yosh...

OTTAWA - An internal review of the nearly $1 billion in foreign aid that Canada quietly spent in Afghanistan after the Canadian military pulled out has found some successes but also many failures - es...