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VANCOUVER - Homeless people staying in close quarters at shelters, tent cities and warming centres are especially at risk for COVID-19, says a community advocate who is working to ensure&nbs...

OTTAWA - Finance Minister Bill Morneau is expected to soon announce the federal government's plan to help workers affected by COVID-19. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Monday that the det...

On a weekend when many Canadians were getting themselves ready to weather the COVID-19 pandemic, Jennifer Teufel-Shatilla was figuring out how to help others do so. Armed with hand sanitizer and disin...

NEW TRIPOLI, Pa. - A Pennsylvania distillery owner who grew increasingly angry as he saw the skyrocketing price of hand sanitizer has decided to do something about it: He's temporarily converting his ...

WASHINGTON - The Pentagon is already helping combat the coronavirus outbreak in the United States and is considering ways to do more. But the military faces limits. Its health care system is geared mo...

WASHINGTON - He called on the country to come together. He warned of pain to come. And he deferred to the nation's public health experts while at least momentarily putting aside petty squabbling. Afte...

COLUMBUS, Ohio - Ohio called off its presidential primary just hours before polls were set to open there and in three other states, an 11th-hour decision the governor said was necessary to prevent fur...

WASHINGTON - The Democratic presidential primary is consumed with uncertainty after leaders in Ohio called off Tuesday's election just hours before polls were set to open, citing the need to combat th...

BANGKOK - With borders slamming shut, schools and businesses closing and and increasingly drastic restrictions on movement, tens of millions of people were hunkered down Tuesday, heeding government ca...

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico - Sirens blared across Puerto Rico's busiest beaches on Monday as police cleared hundreds of tourists from the U.S. territory's coast in a crackdown on people violating a newly i...