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Whether in a business bureaucracy or in government, there are few higher compliments than saying someone is a safe pair of hands. The characterization does not imply that the person so described is perfect; it simply means they have proven themselves to be one of that rare and valuable group …

Canadian passengers of a cruise ship that has been quarantined in Japan due to a coronavirus outbreak on board are still waiting to be repatriated as their American counterparts touched down in the U.S. on Monday. On Saturday, the Canadian government said it had chartered a plane to bring home …

It was early in the morning — before 6:00 a.m. — last August when Ali Chahine woke up in his home in Detroit’s suburbs and checked his smartphone. What happened next highlights why an increasing number of U.S. police forces are embracing Amazon’s consumer technology as a low-cost solution to …

Barraged by hundreds of sex-abuse lawsuits, the Boy Scouts of America filed for bankruptcy protection Tuesday in hopes of working out a potentially mammoth victim compensation plan that will allow the hallowed, 110-year-old organization to carry on. The Chapter 11 filing in federal bankruptcy court in Wilmington, Delaware, sets in …

Israeli opposition leader Benny Gantz is vowing to form a government that will include neither the indicted Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu nor the predominantly Arab parties in parliament. In a series of TV interviews two weeks before national elections, Gantz looked to project confidence that the March 2 vote will …

The race for the Democratic nomination has a front runner and his name is Bernie Sanders. But does that mean he’s the candidate most likely to take on Donald Trump in November? Not exactly. There’s one obvious reason why it’s way too early to say Sanders will be named the …

Rivals from across France’s political spectrum joined in a chorus of alarm and dismay Friday and warned that French democracy is in danger after an online leak of sexual images led an associate of French leader Emmanuel Macron to pull out of the race to become mayor of Paris. Rapid …

U.S. Attorney General William Barr publicly swiped at Donald Trump on Thursday, declaring that the president’s tweets about Justice Department prosecutors and open cases “make it impossible for me to do my job.” Barr made the comment during an interview with ABC News just days after his Justice Department overruled …

The latest: 8th presumptive case of coronavirus identified in Canada Number of new cases in mainland China rises by 2,641 on Friday 143 more deaths reported Friday, bringing death toll in mainland China to 1,523 Total coronavirus cases across mainland China now 66,492 More than 1,700 health-care workers in China …

Federal U.S. prosecutors have declined to charge former FBI deputy director Andrew McCabe, closing an investigation into whether the longtime target of President Donald Trump’s ire lied to federal officials about his involvement in a news media disclosure, McCabe’s legal team said Friday. The decision, coming at the end of …