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NEW YORK - People travelled across the country and stood in a block-long line to pay respects to Cicely Tyson at a public viewing Monday. As it began on a wintry Monday morning, admirers of the pionee...

TEL AVIV, Israel - Dr. Anthony Fauci has won the $1 million Dan David Prize for "defending science" and advocating for vaccines now being administered worldwide to fight the coronavirus pandemic. The ...

MONTREAL - A Black Montreal man wrongfully arrested and accused of attempted murder of a police officer says he's traumatized by the events that turned his life upside down in late January. Mamadi Far...

VANCOUVER - Snowfall and winter storm warnings remain posted for British Columbia's inner south coast as Environment Canada warns some areas are being walloped harder than others.The weather office sa...

OTTAWA - Canada's sluggish COVID-19 vaccination efforts are expected to get a big boost starting this week as the federal government prepares for a ramp up in the delivery of shots from Pfizer-BioNTec...

SHERWOOD PARK, Alta. - The world's longest hockey game has broken multiple records this year. Forty people took turns playing hockey on an outdoor rink 24 hours a day, seven days a week since Feb. 4 t...

MINEOLA, N.Y. - The 64-year-old father of rapper Nicki Minaj has died after being struck by a hit-and-run driver in New York, police said. Robert Maraj was walking along a road in Mineola on Long Isla...

MANILA, Philippines - Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte's administration wants considerably more military aid from the United States in exchange for not abrogating a key security pact with Washingt...

HALIFAX - Lionel Desmond was a desperately ill man, and he knew it. The former Canadian soldier was suffering from severe post-traumatic stress disorder and a possible traumatic brain injury when he w...

OTTAWA - Canada's sluggish COVID-19 vaccination efforts are expected to get a big boost starting this week as the federal government prepares for a ramp up in the delivery of shots from Pfizer-BioNTec...