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HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) - Gov. Josh Shapiro 's second budget proposes significant increases to education and economic development and would regulate adult use marijuana, while leaning heavily on Pennsylv...

McLEAN, Va. (AP) - A Virginia Senate committee on Tuesday rejected legislation that would have allowed a referendum on a casino in the wealthy suburbs of the nation's capital. The Senate Finance and A...

TORONTO - The board of directors at the Ontario Securities Commission has extended Grant Vingoe's term as chief executive officer for five years. Vingoe was both chair and CEO of the OSC before the ro...

LAS VEGAS (AP) - President Joe Biden on Monday congratulated hospitality workers for reaching a tentative agreement with several Las Vegas hotel-casinos and calling off a strike deadline for another, ...

NEW YORK (AP) - An oversight board is criticizing Facebook owner Meta's policies regarding manipulated media as "incoherent" and insufficient to address the flood of online disinformation that already...

MONTREAL - The Quebec government says it will spend $870 million to replace the decaying roof of Montreal's Olympic Stadium, but some sports economists say they're skeptical of the government's case. ...

MONTREAL - When Ellen Rice-Hogan discovered that someone had bought a mining claim under her farm, she was shocked. There's no mining around the Township of Low, Que., about 40 kilometres northwest of...

Social media CEOs got grilled by Senate lawmakers this week in an emotional and often heated hearing about the dangers their platforms pose to children - sexual predators, videos encouraging suicide a...

VANCOUVER - Ihsan Abdul Salam describes himself as a "loyal" customer of Flight Centre, booking tickets with the international travel company since 1995. But when he went to a Vancouver branch of the ...

TORONTO - Industry Minister Franois-Philippe Champagne says Canada has signed a letter of intent with artificial intelligence chip giant Nvidia to boost computing power. In a post on X, formerly known...