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U.S. President Donald Trump on Saturday bypassed Congress and signed executive orders deferring payroll taxes for some Americans and extending unemployment benefits after negotiations on a new coronavirus rescue package collapsed.

U.S. President Donald Trump on Saturday bypassed Congress and signed executive orders deferring payroll taxes for some Americans and extending unemployment benefits after negotiations on a new coronavirus rescue package collapsed.

U.S. President Donald Trump on Saturday bypassed Congress and signed four executive actions deferring payroll taxes for some Americans and extending unemployment benefits after negotiations on a new coronavirus rescue package collapsed.

The family of a man who died from COVID-19 while in U.S. custody is blaming the Canadian Embassy for not doing enough to bring him home.

Hong Kong's leader and China's top representative in the city took pot shots at the U.S. on Saturday after the Trump administration sanctioned them and nine other officials for allegedly cracking down on freedom and undermining the local autonomy of the former British colony.

Ottawa has launched a dollar-for-dollar matching fund to send additional aid to Lebanon following Tuesday’s deadly blast in Beirut, a contribution that comes from the federal government’s previous commitment of $5 million to provide relief to the region.

The plane swayed violently as it approached a hilltop runway soaked by monsoon rain, and moments later the special return flight for Indians stranded abroad by the pandemic skidded off, nosedived and cracked in two, leaving 18 dead and more than 120 injured.

A man and a woman, both 18 and from Melita, Man., were pronounced dead at the scene, the Mounties said in a news release issued Saturday afternoon.

A man and a woman, both 18 and from Melita, Man., were pronounced dead at the scene, the Mounties said in a news release issued Saturday afternoon.

Thousands of bikers have gathered in the small South Dakota city of Sturgis for a motorcycle rally, despite fears it could lead to a huge outbreak of COVID-19.

The coronavirus may be changing the world, but there aren't many signs of the pandemic at the massive annual motorcycle rally being held this week at a small city along Interstate 90 in western South Dakota.

The coronavirus may be changing the world, but there aren't many signs of the pandemic at the massive annual motorcycle rally being held this week at a small city along Interstate 90 in western South Dakota.

STARS air ambulance was dispatched to the Virden, Man., area, after a tornado touched down Friday evening.

STARS air ambulance was dispatched to the Virden, Man., area, after a tornado touched down Friday evening.

Security forces fired tear gas at stone-throwing protesters on Saturday after they tried to reach Lebanon's parliament area in downtown Beirut during a demonstration over this week's deadly chemical explosion at the city's port.

In a televised speech on Friday, Prime Minister Hassan Diab called on all political parties to put their disagreements aside and work together.

Security forces fired tear gas and clashed with stone-throwing demonstrators Saturday in Beirut, and a group of protesters stormed the Foreign Ministry amid mounting fury over this week's explosion that devastated much of the city and killed nearly 160 people.

One of just three teenagers in a tiny Alaskan town abutting northwest British Columbia says he's feeling sad and isolated after almost five months of a border closure that's kept him apart from his friends just kilometres away in Canada. 

Inmates say they can't protect themselves from COVID-19 at the Edmonton Remand Centre where it's difficult to physically distance, access masks or practice good hygiene.

Senior officials from the Middle East and Europe started arriving in Lebanon Saturday in a show of solidarity with the tiny country that suffered a deadly explosion this week that caused large-scale damage to the capital Beirut.

Brazil surpassed a grim milestone on Saturday — 100,000 deaths from COVID-19. And five months after the first reported case, the country is showing no signs of crushing the disease.

Brazil surpassed a grim milestone on Saturday — 100,000 deaths from COVID-19. And five months after the first reported case, the country is showing no signs of crushing the disease.

Brazil is approaching the grim milestone of 100,000 confirmed deaths from COVID-19, just five months after the first reported case in a nation of 210 million.

Leslyn Lewis may not have the same profile or House of Commons experience as the perceived front-runners Peter MacKay and Erin O'Toole, but three Tory strategists say she's the one to watch as party members mail in their ballots. 

Colby Gaudet from Annapolis County, N.S., has discovered through their PhD research that their Acadian ancestors not only owned slaves, but fought for the right to keep them even with abolition on the horizon.

A husband and father is making the heartbreaking decision to move away so that his family doesn't have to worry about getting him sick.

With less than a month to go until schools reopen across the country, experts say Canada’s plans to get kids back in the classroom safely are missing some key lessons from history.

The pressing question for both Justin Trudeau and Julie Payette is whether the former astronaut can continue to represent the Queen without doing significant damage to one of the foundational institutions of Canadian democracy, Aaron Wherry writes.

The federal government has quietly abandoned its case against a woman who was accused of being a Russian sex spy on Canadian disarmament project in the 1990s. But a leading expert in intelligence says all of the gaffes and missteps should not be just be forgotten.

The National for August 7: The Canadian government promises to fire back against new U.S. tariffs on Canadian aluminum.

STARS air ambulance was dispatched to the Virden, Man., area, after a tornado touched down Friday evening.

The Canadian government promises to fire back against new U.S. tariffs on Canadian aluminum.

A Canadian man who contracted COVID-19 while in the custody of U.S. immigration authorities has died, leaving his family shaken and looking for answers from governments on both sides of the border.

A Canadian man who contracted COVID-19 while in the custody of U.S. immigration authorities has died, leaving his family shaken and looking for answers from governments on both sides of the border.

A Canadian man who contracted COVID-19 while in the custody of U.S. immigration authorities has died, leaving his family shaken and looking for answers from governments on both sides of the border.

The loss of the St. Patrick's Bay ice caps, located on Ellesmere Island, is a warning that "everything is changing up there," says scientist Mark Serreze.

We know from witnesses and reporting that the Beirut explosion earlier this week caused massive damage within about a three-kilometre radius of the blast. What if such an explosion happened in Canada? See how extensive the damage would be in these five port cities.