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Ghislaine Maxwell declined to answer questions from a House committee, citing 5th Amendment rights
WASHINGTON (AP) - House lawmakers tried Monday to interview Ghislaine Maxwell, but the former girlfriend and confidant of Jeffrey Epstein invoked her Fifth Amendment rights to avoid answering question...
Feb 09, 2026 House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer, R-Ky., joined at left by Rep. Andy Biggs, R-Ariz., speaks to reporters after a closed-circuit deposition with Ghislaine Maxwell, the former girlfriend and confidante of sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein, at the Capitol in Washington, Monday, Feb. 9, 2026. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
Vatican again OKs Archbishop Fulton Sheen beatification after 2019 ceremony derailed at last minute
ROME (AP) - The Vatican has given the green light, again, to beatify Archbishop Fulton Sheen, the popular U.S. radio and TV preacher whose path to sainthood was derailed first by a lengthy court battl...
Feb 09, 2026
UK police force assesses claims ex-Prince Andrew sent sensitive trade reports to Epstein
LONDON (AP) - British police said they were examining claims that the former Prince Andrew sent confidential trade reports to Jeffrey Epstein, as Prince William's office said he was "deeply concerned'...
Feb 09, 2026 A document that was included in the U.S. Department of Justice release of the Jeffrey Epstein files, photographed Monday, Feb. 9, 2026, shows an email to Epstein. (AP Photo/Jon Elswick)
'They were brothers': Players, families remember 3 who died in Alberta highway crash
When Sawyer Smith thinks about teammates Caden Fine and JJ Wright, he remembers an instance of team tomfoolery on the golf course. He was with Cameron Casorso on the course when Fine and Wright brough...
Feb 09, 2026 A spectator takes a photo of a memorial for three hockey players killed in a car accident at the town arena before the start of the Stavely Mustang hockey game in Stavely, Alta., Sunday, Feb. 8, 2026. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Todd Korol
UK leader Starmer fights for his job as Mandelson-Epstein revelations spark a crisis
LONDON (AP) - British Prime Minister Keir Starmer's position hung by a thread on Monday as he tried to persuade his Labour Party lawmakers not to kick him out of his job after just a year and a half i...
Feb 09, 2026
Canada Post gets a $1.01-billion loan amid ongoing financial struggles
GATINEAU - The federal government says it is making more than $1 billion available to Canada Post in the form of a repayable loan to help the beleaguered Crown corporation remain solvent and keep its ...
Feb 07, 2026 The federal government says it is making more than $1 billion available to Canada Post in the form of a repayable loan to help the beleaguered Crown corporation remain solvent and keep its services running. (THE CANADIAN PRESS files/Ethan Cairns)
NFL launches challenge to improve facemasks and reduce concussions
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - The NFL is challenging innovators to improve the facemask on football helmets to reduce concussions in the game. The league announced on Friday at an innovation summit for the Sup...
Feb 06, 2026
Union threatens legal action as feds increase public servants' in-office time
Canada's largest federal public sector union is threatening legal action as the government moves to increase public servants' in-office time. The federal government is ordering public servants to be i...
Feb 06, 2026 PSAC workers walk the picket line out front of His Majesty's Canadian Dockyard in Esquimalt, B.C., on Friday, April 28, 2023. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Chad Hipolito
Supreme Court ruling sets out exception to confidentiality between lawyer and client
The Supreme Court of Canada says there can be an exception to a lawyer's duty to keep conversations with a client confidential when the lawyer needs the information to defend themselves against a crim...
Feb 06, 2026
Unemployment rate drops to 6.5% in January despite 25,000 job losses: StatCan
Statistics Canada says the economy shed 25,000 jobs in January but a drop in the number of people looking for work drove the unemployment rate down to 6.5 per cent in the month. January's job losses m...
Feb 06, 2026 Workers inspect sheets of stainless steel after being pressed from coils, at Magna Stainless and Aluminum in Montreal on Thursday, Sept. 18, 2025. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Christopher Katsarov
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