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WASHINGTON - U.S. and Chinese negotiators are holding high-level talks aimed at settling a six-month trade war that has weakened both sides, shaken financial markets and clouded the outlook for the gl...

WASHINGTON - Democrats in the House offered a border security plan on Wednesday that would not provide a penny for Donald Trump's border wall, ignoring - for now - an early-morning warning from the pr...

NEW YORK - Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman was portrayed Wednesday in closing arguments at his U.S. trial as a ruthless Mexican drug lord who also became skilled at evading capture and escaping prison becau...

CHICAGO - A blast of polar air enveloped much of the Midwest on Wednesday, cracking train rails, breaking water pipes and straining electrical systems with some of the lowest temperatures in a generat...

WASHINGTON - House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has declared that there'll be no "wall money" in any compromise border security deal as she and President Donald Trump signalled that congressional negotiators ...

WASHINGTON - The Trump administration is poised to announce Friday that it is withdrawing from a treaty that has been a centerpiece of superpower arms control since the Cold War and whose demise some ...

PARIS - Is France cracking down too hard on yellow vest protesters? A top European human rights official thinks so, joining other critics decrying the police use of high-velocity rubber projectiles an...

JOHANNESBURG - At least three students are dead after a walkway collapsed at a school outside Johannesburg, a South African official said Friday. Panyaza Lesufi, the head of education for Gauteng prov...

WASHINGTON - U.S. Sen. Cory Booker on Friday declared his bid for the presidency in 2020 with a sweeping call to unite a deeply polarized nation around a "common purpose." The New Jersey Democrat, who...

FREDERICTON - New Brunswick has abandoned plans to host the 2021 Francophonie Games, throwing the international event into turmoil and escalating a feud with the federal government. Premier Blaine Hig...