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SAN BERNARDINO, Calif. - A firefighter died battling a wildfire in California that officials said was sparked by a device used to reveal a baby's gender. The death occurred Thursday in the San Bernard...

WASHINGTON - The U.S. will ban the use of the Chinese app WeChat on Sunday citing national security concerns. Downloads of the he app TikTok, owned by the same company, will be banned at the same time...

THE HAGUE, Netherlands - Police in Romania have uncovered a trove of "irreplaceable" books including first editions of works by Galileo Galilei and Isaac Newton that were stolen in a sophisticated 201...

LONDON - Van Morrison has never been one to hold back over the years. Why start now? The 75-year-old singer-songwriter is certainly not holding back on what he thinks of the lockdown restrictions put ...

Canada's top curling teams are trying to cobble together a competitive fall season despite the COVID-19 pandemic decimating the calendar. The Grand Slam of Curling was whittled from six...

COPENHAGEN - Prince Joachim, the younger son of Queen Margrethe of Denmark who underwent an emergency surgery in France in July for a blood clot in his brain, said Friday he was "eager to get started"...

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 Sept. 18 ... Wha...

The latest numbers of confirmed COVID-19 cases in Canada as of 4 a.m. EDT on Sept. 18, 2020: There are 140,867 confirmed cases in Canada. _ Quebec: 66,356 confirmed (including 5,791 deaths, 58,012 res...

A new survey finds that young people have been vaping less frequently since the COVID-19 pandemic began. The survey, conducted by the Lung Association of Nova Scotia and Smoke-Free Nova Scotia, f...

OTTAWA - Four conservative-minded premiers are to issue today their wish list for next week's throne speech on which the fate of Justin Trudeau's minority Liberal government could hinge. Quebec's Fran...