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NEW YORK - Tyler Perry and Bill and Hillary Clinton were among the attendees of a private memorial service for Cicely Tyson at Harlem's famed Abyssinian Baptist Church. Gospel singer Bebe Winans sang ...

WASHINGTON - The House Homeland Security chairman accused Donald Trump in a federal lawsuit Tuesday of inciting the deadly insurrection at the U.S. Capitol and conspiring with his lawyer and extremist...

OTTAWA - Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland is appealing to the official Opposition Conservatives to hasten passage of a COVID-19 relief bill through the House of Commons. The appeal is in a lett...

OTTAWA - An Ontario city says it has found a way to quickly and effectively get homeless veterans off the streets in a model that could be replicated in other municipalities. Those involved will note ...

SILVER SPRING, Md. - The seemingly unstoppable rise of Bitcoin continued Tuesday with the cost of a single unit of the digital currency rising above $50,000 for the first time. The price of Bitcoin ha...

OTTAWA - Frustrations with government efforts to manage the COVID-19 pandemic has led major businesses in this country to decide to take some matters into their own hands to avoid further lockdowns. T...

OTTAWA - NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh is calling for a quicker, clearer vaccination plan that would see Canada's military deployed across the country to speed up provincial COVID-19 inoculation efforts - ...

DHAKA, Bangladesh - A special tribunal in Bangladesh's capital on Tuesday sentenced five members of a banned militant outfit to death and a sixth man to life in prison for the 2015 killing of a promin...

NEW DELHI - An overcrowded bus drove off a bridge and into a canal in central India on Tuesday, killing at least 40 people, an official said. Six people were rescued after the accident in Madhya Prade...

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 Feb. 16... What we are watching in Canada ... ...