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OTTAWA — Prime Minister Mark Carney will try to make a clean break with the past on Tuesday with a cabinet full of fresh faces and a series of new "junior minister" positions. Read More

The R&B singer Cassie could testify as soon as Tuesday in Sean "Diddy" Combs sex trafficking trial, as the Bad Boy Records founder faces charges that he orchestrated a deviant empire of exploitation that forced women into drugged-up sex parties called "freak-offs." Read More

A McDonald's restaurant in Virginia has banned customers under the age of 21 years old from eating inside, due to student violence. Read More

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Twelve years ago, on Jan. 23, 2013, British Prime Minister David Cameron committed to holding a referendum on the United Kingdom’s membership in the European Union. "That is why I am in favour of a referendum, Cameron explained. I believe in confronting this issue — shaping it, leading the debate. Not simply hoping a difficult situation will go away." Read More

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WASHINGTON -- For President Donald Trump, accepting a free Air Force One replacement from Qatar is a no-brainer. Read More

Alberta is freezing its industrial carbon tax in a bid to help companies struggling with the effects of U.S. tariffs, potentially setting up a challenge to the government of Prime Minister Mark Carney. Read More

OTTAWA — Rookie Liberal MP Corey Hogan says he's ready to speak up for the "No" side, in the event of a referendum on Albertan independence next year. Read More

VICTORIA -- British Columbia says it has shortened the length of time it takes for an American nurse to register to work in the province from months to just a few days, in an effort to lure more nurses north. Read More

OTTAWA — When Elections Canada certified the Liberals' victory by a single vote in the Quebec riding of Terrebonne, senior party officials were stunned. Read More

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Toronto Maple Leafs forward Max Domi has been fined $5,000 for boarding Florida Panthers centre Aleksander Barkov in the closing seconds of Game 4 in the second-round series in Florida on Sunday, the National Hockey League’s Department of Player Safety has announced. Read More

OTTAWA — Prime Minister Mark Carney will be at Rideau Hall on Tuesday to unveil the team he promised would “do things previously thought impossible at speeds we haven’t seen in generations.” Read More

Most Americans who drove to Canada in April came for Good Friday on Easter weekend, according to preliminary data from Statistics Canada released on Monday. But overall, fewer Americans travelled to Canada by air and by automobile this April compared to last year. Read More

An Elections Canada judicial recount flipped a riding back to the Liberals over the weekend, but the results of three more recounts yet to be completed won’t give Prime Minister Mark Carney and his party the 172 seats needed for a majority government. Read More

President Donald Trump on Monday signed a sweeping executive order setting a 30-day deadline for drugmakers to electively lower the cost of prescription drugs in the U.S. or face new limits down the road over what the government will pay. Read More

A recount of votes in the Quebec riding of Terrebonne has flipped that seat from the Bloc Québécois to the Liberals, and brought the governing Liberty party to 170 MPs in the House of Commons, just two shy of a majority. Here's what to know about Tatiana Auguste, Canada's newest MP. Read More

GENEVA — The United States and China agreed Monday to slash their massive recent tariffs, restarting stalled trade between the world’s two biggest economies and setting off a rally in global financial markets. Read More

Ontario hospitals spent more than $9 billion on nurses and other staff from for-profit agencies in a 10-year period, a new study concludes. Read More

The public knew Sean “Diddy” Combs as a larger-than-life cultural icon and business mogul, but in private he used violence and threats to coerce women into drug-fueled sexual encounters that he recorded, a prosecutor said Monday in opening statements at Combs’ sex trafficking trial. Read More

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Russia launched more than 100 Shahed and decoy drones at Ukraine in nighttime attacks, the Ukrainian air force said Monday, after the Kremlin rejected an unconditional 30-day ceasefire in the more than 3-year war. Read More

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When Mark Carney was asked on the campaign trail about whether federal approval for injection sites would continue under his government, he avoided the contentious topic by saying the effectiveness of those sites was under review. Read More

Never mind Donald Trump. Never mind western separatism. Does Mark Carney have what it takes to confront the fiasco of 24 Sussex Drive? Read More

OTTAWA — If only they’d signed up for direct deposit. Read More

An immigration detention center in New Jersey is at the center of tensions between three congressional Democrats and the Trump administration after the arrest of Newark's mayor set off a scrum outside the complex. Read More

A Toronto doctor has had his medical license revoked after he pleaded guilty to criminal harassment of more than a dozen girls and admitted to public masturbation. Read More

The remains of Staff Sgt. First Class Tzvi Feldman, missing since the 1982 Battle of Sultan Yacoub during the First Lebanon War, have been returned to Israel in a special operation conducted by the Mossad and the Israel Defence Forces, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced on Sunday morning. Read More

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Sunday he is hoping for a full and temporary ceasefire with Russia starting Monday, adding he would be in Turkey to negotiate with Russian President Vladimir Putin "personally." Read More

India's military strikes into Pakistan-controlled Kashmir and Pakistan earlier this week killed more than 100 militants, including their prominent leadership, the head of India's military operations claimed on Sunday. Read More

A Quebec Superior Court judge has authorized a class action suit brought on behalf of racialized people who were stopped while behind the wheel by police without reason to suspect an offence. Read More

President Donald Trump reportedly is ready to accept a luxury Boeing 747-8 jumbo jet as a gift from the ruling family of Qatar during his trip to the Middle East this coming week, and U.S. officials say it could be converted into a potential presidential aircraft. Read More

As Alberta flirts with the possibility of a referendum on separation, Quebec sovereigntists are watching with interest — and a healthy dose of skepticism. Read More

An advocate for victims of clergy abuse said Saturday they are holding on to cautious hope about Pope Leo XIV, but keeping a close eye on recently surfaced allegations that he previously sheltered those accused of abuse. Read More

Row after row of Canadian flags fly high atop tall poles over manicured lawns in a southern Alberta town that's also home to the province's premier, her husband and their dog. Read More