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His Liberal party fell just short of that two years ago and must rely on the opposition to pass legislation. Trudeau wants to capitalize on the fact that Canada is now one of the most fully vaccinated countries in the world.

A Los Angeles judge on Thursday again rejected one of 11 sexual assault counts in an indictment of Harvey Weinstein.

The closure of a key terminal at the Ningbo-Zhoushan port reflects China's determination to squash its worst coronavirus outbreak in months no matter the economic costs.

The gunman found criminally responsible in the shooting deaths of five people at a Maryland newspaper still will be sentenced late next month despite the attacker's request to speed up the process, a judge ruled Wednesday.

Police have confirmed that two members a hiphop group with ties to the multiplatinum rap group WuTang Clan were fatally shot Tuesday in Portland, Oregon.

New Zealand plans to allow quarantinefree entry to vaccinated travellers from lowrisk countries from early next year as part of a phased reopening of its borders that were shut last year due to the pandemic, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said on Thursday.

A senior executive for Chinese communications giant Huawei Technologies committed fraud because of what she said during a meeting with a bank official, and what she did not say, a Canadian government lawyer told an extradition hearing Wednesday.

Israels government on Wednesday advanced a raft of new coronavirus restrictions, including sweeping implementation of a digital vaccine passport and tighter restrictions on mass gatherings, as the country struggles with skyrocketing new infections.

R&B star R. Kelly will face an anonymous jury made up of seven men and five women when his New York City sex trafficking trial goes forward next week with opening statements.

The Canadian ambassador to China hit out at the decision, linking it and the upholding on Tuesday of the death sentence against another national

An effort by 11 former University of North Dakota women's hockey players to bring back the program that was dropped in 2017 got new life on Tuesday when the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals revived the players' lawsuit.

A Northern California city agreed to pay nearly $6 million to settle a lawsuit with the family of a mentally ill man who died in 2018 after police restrained and repeatedly tasered him, the family's attorney said Tuesday.

CODA, a tender and stirring comingofage tale about the only hearing member in a deaf family, might be the crowdpleaser of the year, but it was only a few weeks ago that director Sin Heder saw it with an audience.

A convicted killer whose family had political connections to former Kentucky Gov. Matt Bevin is back on trial for the 2014 killing that Bevin had pardoned him for shortly before leaving office.

The virus, which is carried by bats and has a fatality rate of up to 88 percent, was found in samples taken from a patient who died on August 2 in southern Gueckedou prefecture, the WHO said.

New Mexico customers are sounding the alarm over a proposed multibilliondollar merger of the state's largest electric utility provider with a U.S. subsidiary of Spanish energy giant Iberdrola, citing a sordid track record of reliability and customer servi...