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Police in Canada say they have made more than 100 arrests and progress in clearing out truckers who have paralyzed Ottawa for three weeks in a protest against the country’s COVID-19 restrictions

Hundreds of truckers clogging Canada’s capital stood their ground and defiantly blasted their horns Thursday, even as police arrested two protest leaders and threatened to break up the nearly three-week protest.

Police in Canada’s capital are telling protesting truckers who have paralyzed the city for more than two weeks that it’s time to leave

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is invoking emergency powers to weaken the protests by demonstrators who are paralyzing the capital city of Ottawa and blocking border crossings

A Canadian judge has ordered protesters at the Ambassador Bridge over the U.S.-Canadian border to end the 5-day-old blockade that has disrupted the flow of goods between the two countries and forced the auto industry on both sides to roll back production

Authorities say a man who wanted to join the protests in Canada’s capital over mask mandates called in a bomb threat but called the wrong Ottawa.

Canadian lawmakers are expressing increasing worry about the economic effects of disruptive demonstrations

Dubbed the “Freedom Convoy,” the demonstration has seen hundreds of truckers block city streets, blaring their horns and disrupting traffic.

One person is dead and three others were injured after a shooting in Ottawa. Police are still searching for the suspect.

“Jeopardy!” host Alex Trebek, who continues to work as he fights pancreatic cancer, said he doesn’t fear death and vowed to stay on the job “as long as my skills do not diminish.” Trebek announced in March that he had been diagnosed with stage 4 pancreatic cancer, but was still on stage in late July when the syndicated show began...

Three students were injured when lightning struck as they waited for a bus in the Round Lake Heights area Thursday morning, according to authorities and school officials.

The 35-year-old singer announced on Instagram on Wednesday that she and her husband, Mike Fisher, are expecting their second child. She says they are “absolutely over the moon.”

The suspect in the deadly van attack in Toronto posted a chilling Facebook message just minutes before plowing into a crowded city sidewalk, authorities said Tuesday, raising the possibility that he may have nursed grudges against women — a possible echo of a 1989 massacre of 14 women that remains one of Canada’s most traumatic acts of violence.

Police in Canada’s biggest city are piecing together witness accounts and surveillance video trying to determine why a driver plowed a rented van along a crowded sidewalk, killing 10 people and injuring 15 in what many said seemed a deliberate attack. A 25-year-old suspect was quickly captured in a tense but brief confrontation with officers a few blocks away from...

The second round of talks on renegotiating the North American Free Trade Agreement ended Tuesday amid resistance to discussing Mexico’s low wages and large differences over dispute resolution mechanisms. The head negotiators for all three countries at the talks in Mexico City said progress had been made, but U.S. Trade Representative Robert E. Lighthizer said some areas were going to...

Authorities in Ohio say a woman posted Snapchat video of herself being raped, and a friend who saw it alerted police. Ottawa County Prosecutor James VanEerten says he believes the video clearly shows a sexual assault taking place. He says it’s unclear whether the young woman live-streamed the attack or posted the video shortly afterward.

A 65-year-old suburban Chicago man died Sunday morning after experiencing a problem with his parachute while skydiving.

U.S. Women’s National Team midfielders Lauren Holiday and Megan Rapinoe won’t be able to play in the quarterfinals match against China after they received their second yellow cards in Monday night’s 2-0 victory over upstart Colombia.

Alex Morgan scored her first goal of the Women’s World Cup and the United States advanced to the quarterfinals with a 2-0 victory over Colombia on Monday night.