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WASHINGTON - The Navy will conduct a legal investigation of circumstances surrounding the spread of the coronavirus aboard the aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt, a move that effectively delays a...

TOKYO - New rumours about Kim Jong Un pour in daily. The North Korean leader is dead. Or he's very ill. Or maybe he's just recuperating in his luxury compound, or isolating himself from the coronaviru...

OTTAWA - The House of Commons will be asked today to give rapid approval to legislation authorizing $9 billion in promised financial assistance for students facing bleak summer job prospects in t...

NANAIMO - In times of great uncertainty for local Girl Guides, an anonymous donor has provided another massive, albeit unique, financial boost.Following a $1,200 order of Girl Guide Cookies in Novembe...

NEW DELHI - Irrfan Khan, a veteran character actor in Bollywood movies and one of India's best-known exports to Hollywood, has died. He was 54. Khan played the police inspector in "Slumdog Millionaire...

LONDON - British Prime Minister Boris Johnson and his partner Carrie Symonds have announced the birth of a baby boy. Johnson's office says Symonds gave birth to a "healthy baby boy at a London hospita...

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 April 29 ... ---...

NEW YORK - The most controversial movie of the year is ... "Trolls World Tour"? As innocuous as the rainbow-colored, music-blaring animated movie may seem, the digital release of the "Trolls" sequel h...

BERKELEY, Calif. - Google reported its weakest revenue growth in nearly five years as the pandemic-driven recession began to shrivel its advertising sales in the first quarter. The January-March earni...

The 2020 NFL draft is over but won't be easily forgotten by Canadian Nathan Rourke. The six-foot-two, 209-pound Ohio University quarterback was bypassed in the draft then...