WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Canada-U.S. softwood lumber trade relationship has dealt with ups and downs, disputes and resolutions, for decades. Anxiety for Canadian exporters is reaching a fever pitch again as the U.S. threatens to more than double softwood lumber duties and add even steeper tariffs under a national security investigation.  Read More

A Justice Department request to unseal grand jury transcripts in the prosecution of chronic sexual abuser Jeffrey Epstein and his former girlfriend is unlikely to produce much, if anything, to satisfy the public's appetite for new revelations about the financier's crimes, former federal prosecutors say. Read More

Just three people remain missing — down from nearly 100 at last count — since the Texas Hill Country was pounded by massive flooding on July 4, officials said Saturday. Read More

A performer holding a Palestinian flag touched off a brief scuffle on stage at the Royal Opera House in London as cast members were taking their bows following the season's final performance of "Il Trovatore." Read More

Toronto police say they have arrested and charged a teenage boy in connection with the fatal stabbing of a senior who was loading groceries into her car. Read More

With summer in full swing in the United States, retail executives are sweating a different season. It's less than 22 weeks before Christmas, a time when businesses that make and sell consumer goods usually nail down their holiday orders and prices. Read More

Tariffs and trade are top of the agenda as the country's premiers arrive in Ontario's cottage country for a three-day meeting that comes at a pivotal time for both Canada-U.S. and domestic relations. Read More

As millions of Israelis resumed routines and activities interrupted by the war with Iran, life ground to a halt last week in the Druze communities of the Golan Heights. Read More

Health officials are adding Saskatchewan and British Columbia to the list of provinces where salami and cacciatore products connected to a salmonella outbreak were distributed. Read More

An independent assessment of the RCMP watchdog, prompted by an anonymous email from employees, uncovered concerns about favouritism, a lack of transparency, heavy workloads and "a toxic environment." Read More

Ontario Premier Doug Ford is hosting Canada’s premiers in Muskoka starting Monday at a Council of the Federation summer gathering. Premiers of the 13 provinces and territories can look forward to enjoying Alberta-bred and Ontario-fed beef on the grill at the Ford family cottage. They will have a special guest: Prime Minister Mark Carney. Read More

ON BOARD THE CANADIAN — One hundred and fifty years ago, on the left bank of the Kaministiquia River, four miles from Thunder Bay, the first sod was turned for the main line of the Canadian Pacific Railway. It was a June afternoon in 1875. Read More

Major League Baseball rolled into Atlanta, Ga., this past week for the playing of the 2025 All-Star Game. Amid the usual fanfare that accompanies the game and the Home Run Derby, there was a slightly awkward moment on Media Day when ESPN personality Pat McAfee was asked by a reporter why the game was in Atlanta at all, after it had been pulled from the city in 2021 due to voter suppression laws that president Joe Biden had described as “Jim Crow in the 21st century.” Further adding to the awkward nature of the question was the fact that Dave Roberts, the National League manager for the game, had said in 2021 that he might boycott the game if it remained in Atlanta. Read More

Re: Terry Newman: Hockey Canada demanding coaches take radical gender test ignores on-ice reality — Terry Newman, July 17 Read More

A spokeswoman for the Tomorrowland music festival says a Canadian woman has died after attending the large gathering in Belgium. Read More

WESTBURY, N.Y. (AP) — A man who was pulled into an MRI machine in New York after he walked into the room wearing a large chain necklace has died, according to police and his wife, who told a local television outlet that he waved goodbye before his body went limp. Read More

BOYNTON BEACH, Fla. (AP) -- Florida Democratic lawmaker Joe Casello has died while in office following a heart attack, according to state House officials. He was 73. Read More

CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (AP) — A regional airline flight heading to Detroit had to make an emergency landing in eastern Iowa after a passenger fought with a flight attendant and tried to open an exit door midair, according to the pilot's communication with air traffic controllers. Read More

LOS ANGELES (AP) — A vehicle rammed into a crowd of people waiting to enter a nightclub along a busy boulevard in Los Angeles early Saturday, injuring 30 people and leading bystanders to attack the driver, authorities said. Read More

Police in Durham Region say a 16-year-old boy who died after being struck by a floatplane that crashed on Lake Scugog was standing on a dock at the time. Read More

Paula Callejas was trying to expand her swimsuit business in Florida after taking time off to take care of her ailing father in Canada before his death. Instead of celebrating the fashion line, the Canadian was taken into United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention. Read More

The days of cramming travel-sized shampoo bottles into plastic bags could soon be over. U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem hinted that the longstanding liquid restrictions for carry-on luggage could be lifted. Read More

On Tuesday a Harvard artificial-intelligence researcher, Keyon Vafa, published a short tweet-thread about a new paper looking at how some types of high-performing intelligence algorithms are behaving under the hood. If you’re interested in the implications of AI progress, this paper is instructive even if you don’t fully understand it, and, yes, that is tantamount to a confession on my part. (And, as the old joke goes, if you’re not interested in the implications of AI progress, rest assured that AI progress is interested in you.) Read More