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COEBURN, Va. - Former coal miner John Robinson's bills for black lung treatments run $4,000 a month, but the federal fund he depends on to help cover them is being drained of money because of inaction...

MONTREAL - Vandals have spray painted a Sir John A. Macdonald statue in downtown Montreal once again. Montreal police noted the spray paint early today at the imposing bronze monument to the country's...

OTTAWA - The president of Davie Shipbuilding says he is confident the Quebec-based shipyard will be tapped to build two new ferries included in this week's federal budget. But James Davies says it is ...

WINNIPEG - A pregnant woman who walked across the United States border into Manitoba was rescued after she became trapped in a snowbank and appeared to go into labour. Emerson-Franklin Reeve Dave Carl...

SAITAMA, Japan - Canada's Kirsten Moore-Towers and Michael Marinaro finished in seventh in pairs on Thursday at the world figure skating championships.  Moore-Towers, of St. Catharines, Ont., and...

Toronto FC has signed Canadian midfielder Richie Laryea. The 24-year-old from Toronto, who was a trialist with TFC during training camp, was taken seventh overall by Orlando City in the 2016...

TORONTO - Marc Kennedy will replace third Ryan Fry on Brad Jacobs' Northern Ontario curling rink this season. The Alberta veteran announced he was taking a break from competitive curling after a 2017-...

WASHINGTON - A top House Democrat says Ivanka Trump, the president's daughter and a powerful White House aide, is not preserving all of her official email communications as required by federal law. Re...

Mike Trout and the Los Angeles Angels are close to finalizing a $432 million, 12-year contract that would shatter the record for the largest deal in North American sports history, a person familiar wi...

BAGHDAD - A ferry overloaded with people celebrating the Kurdish new year and Mother's Day capsized in the Tigris River near the Iraqi city of Mosul on Thursday, killing at least 71 people, officials ...