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WASHINGTON - The Justice Department on Wednesday dropped its discrimination lawsuit against Yale University that had alleged the university was illegally discriminating against Asian American and whit...

The only thing predictable about the Golden Globe nominations are their unpredictability. And the Hollywood Foreign Press Association went overboard with the chaos in this very strange year in which t...

OTTAWA - Canada could get more than one million additional doses of COVID-19 vaccine by the end of March through a global vaccine sharing initiative known as COVAX. But as with most things COVID-19, v...

OTTAWA - A new watchdog report says Canadian use of U.S. firm Clearview AI's facial-recognition technology violated federal and provincial laws governing personal information. In a report today with t...

LANGLEY, B.C. - A longtime labour and human rights leader in British Columbia has died. The family of Charan Gill say he died in hospital on Feb. 2, following a battle with cancer. Gill was 84. Born i...

WASHINGTON - The services sector, where most Americans work, operated in January at the highest level in almost two years. Activity climbed to a reading of 58.7% in January on a seasonally adjusted ba...

NEW YORK - Netflix built on its recent dominance at scooping up Golden Globe TV nominations Wednesday, getting 20 nods - nearly three times as many as its closest competitor, HBO. Netflix, which beat ...

WASHINGTON - A new poll suggests people in the United States and parts of Europe believe their countries will be better equipped to handle the next major health crisis. The Pew Research Center poll ou...

TOKYO - A coalition of 180 rights groups on Wednesday called for a boycott of next year's Beijing Winter Olympics tied to reported human rights abuses against ethnic minorities in China. The games are...

MELBOURNE, Australia - Players preparing for the Australian Open will have to isolate until they return a negative test for COVID-19 after a worker at one of the tournament's Melbourne quarantine hote...