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HALIFAX - A Halifax police constable who helped arrest a man who died of suffocation in a lockup cell says a spit hood was placed over the detainee's head because the man was angry and saliva was spot...

Ottawa Redblacks receiver Brad Sinopoli is retiring from football. The longtime Canadian standout had 5,741 yards and 19 touchdowns in 139 games over five seasons with the Redblacks. The 33-year-old S...

A family near Duck Lake has been left 'heartbroken' by extensive damage vandals have caused to a disused church building they bought recently. However, there's hope the community will rally around and...

MOSCOW (AP) - A Russian warship fired warning shots and a Russian warplane dropped bombs Wednesday to force a British destroyer away from an area in the Black Sea near Crimea that Russia claims as its...

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 June 23 ... What we are watching in Canada ......

The buildup to the Tokyo Olympics - with a one-year postponement among the many challenges on a very long list - has felt more like a marathon than perhaps any Summer Games before it. All the heavy li...

OTTAWA - The House of Commons is poised to break today for the summer - and possibly for an election - after giving eleventh-hour approval to what the minority Liberal government considers its priorit...

Cree artist Betty Albert woke in the middle of the night after learning remains of possibly 215 children had been found at the site of a former residential school in British Columbia and looked at a c...

LOS ANGELES (AP) - Kobe Bryant's widow has agreed to settle a lawsuit against the pilot and owners of the helicopter that crashed last year, killing the NBA star, his daughter, Gianna, and seven other...

LAS VEGAS - Carey Price stopped 26 shots Tuesday as the Montreal Canadiens handled the Vegas Golden Knights 4-1 to take a 3-2 lead in their Stanley Cup semifinal series. Game 6 goes Thursday in Montre...