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WASHINGTON - A second woman accused Virginia Lt. Gov. Justin Fairfax of sexual assault Friday, saying the Democrat raped her 19 years ago while they were both students at Duke University. Calls for hi...

WASHINGTON - Congressional bargainers are working toward a border security deal amid indications that the White House is preparing to accept a bipartisan agreement that would give President Donald Tru...

SEATTLE - A winter storm pounded Washington state Friday, forcing the cancellation of 200 flights in Seattle as officials worked to get people off the streets and into shelters during the nation's lat...

LOS ANGELES - At a pre-Grammy brunch honouring Janelle Monae, a few hundred music industry players and performers packed tightly in a room to hear the singer speak passionately about women being the b...

BERLIN - Facebook is pushing back against a German ruling that could make it harder for the company to combine data from all the services it runs in order to target ads even more precisely. Thursday's...

Five stories in the news for Thursday, Feb. 7 --- LINDROS URGES NATIONAL CONCUSSION PROTOCOL Former hockey great Eric Lindros brought his star power to Parliament Hill on Wednesday...

OTTAWA - Five Canadian diplomats and their family members who became mysteriously ill while posted to Cuba are suing Ottawa for more than $28 million. In a statement of claim filed Wednesday in Federa...

NEW YORK - Tom Ford says these tumultuous times pointed him in the opposite direction at New York Fashion Week on Wednesday night with a collection of gentle, non-aggressive elegance done in simple si...

TORONTO - The fans left happy after a back-and-forth game Mike Babcock deemed "way too entertaining for the coach." And his team won. Trailing 2-1, the Maple Leafs scored three goals in four minu...

NEW YORK - Gov. Andrew Cuomo warned Friday about what he called "political pandering" to critics of Amazon's proposed secondary headquarters amid a report that the company is reconsidering its planned...