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U.S. officials are proposing a $31 million recovery plan for Canada lynx to help a snow-dependent wildcat species that scientists say could be wiped out in parts of the contiguous U.S. by the end of the century.

The FBI is investigating a vehicle explosion that happened at the Rainbow Bridge. This bridge is the border crossing between the U.S. and Canada at Niagara Falls.

The Pittsburgh Steelers have fired embattled offensive coordinator Matt Canada.

Leylah Fernandez and Marina Stakusic won their singles matches as Canada defeated Italy 2-0 to claim its first-ever Billie Jean King Cup.

An International Atomic Energy Agency team is in Fukushima for the agency's first marine sampling since treated radioactive wastewater started being released from the area's damaged nuclear plant into the sea.

The U.S. played the bronze-medal game short-handed, and Canada sent the Americans home from the World Cup empty-handed.

For the first time in 25 years, Italy is going to the quarterfinals of the Basketball World Cup.

The Dominican Republic, Australia and Italy have advanced to the knockout stage of the World Cup.

Olympic silver medalist France won't make the second round of the World Cup.

The Basketball World Cup started Friday and Canada sent a message.

Kuei-Shan Little League from Taoyuan, Taiwan, has dominated its first two games of the Little League World Series and has done so in style.

Residents have heeded warnings to evacuate the capital of Canada’s Northwest Territories as a wildfire burns just miles outside the city of 20,000.

Residents of the capital of Canada’s Northwest Territories are fleeing an approaching wildfire in long convoys of cars, while air evacuations are underway for those who cannot leave by road.

The wildfires in Hawaii come after a summer of record wildfires in Canada, which has caused air quality issues around the world.

The World Meteorological Organization, an agency of the UN, said the first week of July was the hottest week on record for the planet as a whole.

Expect more stormy and smoky episodes throughout the summer, partially due to El Niño

United States forward Christian Pulisic has arrived in Italy for a medical test with AC Milan before an expected transfer from Chelsea.

Matt Turner stopped two penalty kicks, and the United States beat Canada 3-2 in a shootout after a 2-2 draw for a berth in a CONCACAF Gold Cup semifinal against Panama.

United States midfielder Brenden Aaronson will play in Germany’s top flight next season after joining Union Berlin on loan from Leeds.

The United Kingdom, Canada, Sweden and Ukraine have launched a case against Iran at the United Nations’ highest court over the downing in 2020 of a Ukrainian passenger jet and the deaths of all 176 on board.

Air quality gradually improves as scattered storm clusters move in from the west

Taylor Moore and Monday qualifier Peter Kuest shot 8-under 64s to share the first-round lead in the Rocket Mortgage Classic.

A former champion cyclist who won two gold medals at the 1976 Olympics has been convicted by a German court in a child sexual abuse case.

Known as the Corsi-Rosenthal box, it pulls air through filters on the sides and blows out clean air. It’s proven to reduce indoor exposure to airborne particles. The box can decrease the levels of particles in the air, such as dust or wildfire smoke.

To President Donald Trump, America’s trade relationship with Mexico was intolerable.

Several people with autism and intellectual disabilities have been legally euthanized in the Netherlands in recent years because they said they could not lead normal lives.

Stellantis says it is pulling together a network of public electric vehicle chargers that could include Tesla and nearly all of the other chargers in the U.S., Canada and Europe.

The cost of the unprecedented search for the missing Titan submersible will easily stretch into the millions of dollars.

Canadian authorities announced this week that Nathan Chasing Horse has been charged in the province of Alberta with sexual assault and sexual exploitation.

Bunge is buying Viterra in a deal valued at approximately $18 billion to great a global agricultural giant.

Southwest Virginia is under a Code Orange air quality alert, which means it's unhealthy for sensitive populations to spend time outdoors.

An Air Quality Alert is in effect for parts of the Roanoke Valley Thursday.

Officials in Canada’s Atlantic Coast province Nova Scotia said a wildfire that forced thousands of residents from their homes over the past week is now largely contained because of rain.

Fires have burned more than 1,800 square miles in Alberta, British Columbia and Saskatchewan

An unusually early heat wave is expected to start Saturday and last through Monday in parts of the Pacific Northwest.

An early May heat wave this weekend could surpass daily records in parts of the Pacific Northwest.

President Joe Biden and Spain's Pedro Sánchez are set to hold talks as their countries are collaborating along with Canada to establish migration hubs in Latin America where asylum seekers fleeing poverty and violence in their home countries can go to apply for protection.

Tens of thousands of people are gathering in New Mexico for what organizers bill as the largest powwow in North America.

The U.N. special envoy for Haiti is urging immediate deployment of a specialized international force to counter escalating gang violence and develop the understaffed and ill-equipped police force, warning that delays could lead to a spillover of insecurity in the Caribbean and Latin America.

Somewhere in a remote stretch of forest near Maine’s border with Canada, rocks from space crashed to Earth and may be scattered across the ground — just waiting to be picked up.

Progress has been rapid for the Gordie Howe International Bridge, a $4.5 billion project named after the legendary hockey player that will provide a passageway for travelers between Detroit and Windsor, Ontario.

Cuba advanced to the World Baseball Classic semifinals for the first time since 2006 with a 4-3 win over Australia as Alfredo Despaigne hit a tiebreaking sacrifice fly and Yoelkis Guibert followed with a two-run single in three-run fifth inning.

Honda is recalling a half-million vehicles in the U.S. and Canada because the front seat belts may not latch properly.

Eugenio Suárez and Anthony Santander had two hits each as Venezuela beat Nicaragua 4-1 and improved to 3-0 in the World Baseball Classic.

Nissan is recalling more than 809,000 small SUVs in the U.S. and Canada because a key problem can cause the ignition to shut off while they’re being driven.

A grand jury in Nevada has indicted a “Dances With Wolves” actor who is accused of sexually abusing and trafficking Indigenous women and girls in the U.S. and Canada for decades.

President Biden is slated to deliver remarks about the series of unidentified high-altitude objects shot down over the U.S. and Canada at 2 p.m.

Data Privacy Day (known in Europe as Data Protection Day) is an international event that occurs every year on 28 January.

Thousands of travelers have been stranded at airports or stuck on hold trying to rebook flights this week as a massive storm snarled travel in the U.S. and Canada.

General Motors is recalling nearly 140,000 Chevrolet Bolt electric cars in the U.S. and Canada to fix a seat belt problem that can cause fires.

Danielle Serdachny scored at 2:16 of overtime to give Canada a 3-2 victory over the United States in the fifth game of the Rivalry Series.

While there is still much to be sorted out logistically for the event, here is what we know at the moment about World Cup 2026.

Writers covering the World Cup for The Associated Press have chosen their standout players at the tournament so far to form a best team of the group stage.

Morocco is the Arab world’s last hope at the first World Cup ever to be held in the Middle East.

Third-seeded Casper Ruud eased to a straight-set victory over Felix Auger-Aliassime in the opening match of the ATP Finals.

Bonaventure Island just off Quebec’s Gaspe Peninsula offers remarkable insights into northern gannets, thanks to an enormous and easily accessible colony of these majestic seabirds.

Millions are at stake in retail sales for this year’s World Cup in Qatar and soccer fans have been playing rate the shirt.

The U.S. and Canada have sent armored vehicles and other supplies to Haiti to help police fight a powerful gang amid a pending request from the Haitian government for the immediate deployment of foreign troops.

Ringo Starr has tested positive for COVID-19, forcing the former Beatle to cancel several scheduled concerts in Canada with his All Starr Band.

Ezi Magbegor had 16 points and five blocks to help Australia beat Canada 75-72 in the women’s World Cup.

Nirra Fields scored 17 points and Shay Colley added 11 to help Canada beat France 59-45 in the women’s basketball World Cup.

An official familiar with the matter says Canada will likely drop the vaccine requirement for people who enter Canada by the end of September.

A new online atlas of bird migration draws from an unprecedented number of scientific and community data sources to illustrate the routes of about 450 bird species in the Americas.

Theodore TOO, currently stationed in Hamilton, Ontario, will be open for Airbnb stays on Saturday and Sunday.

Shoreman left Youngstown, New York at roughly 4 p.m. ET on Friday and finished his trip across Lake Ontario at around 1 p.m. Saturday in Toronto.

Mike Shoreman said he is ready for his final conquest, one he hopes will inspire millions around the world who have struggled with mental health.

Officials in Poland have arrested an 81-year-old Danish woman traveling from Africa to Canada on suspicion of illegal possession of heroin worth over $515,000.

The proposed $24 million settlement between U.S. women soccer players and the sport’s American governing body was given preliminary approval by a federal judge.

Pope Francis has promoted a Vatican nurse to be his “personal health care assistant” The Vatican announced the appointment of Massimiliano Strappetti on Thursday.

The Major League Baseball trade deadline is always a stressful time of year for the league's 30 general managers.

It took nearly 28 hours and more than 44 miles, but a Canadian man is now one step away from completing his quest to cross all five Great Lakes via paddleboard.

Canadian authorities say a gunman who roamed for hours through a sleeping Vancouver suburb shot four people, two of them fatally, as he opened fire at a casino, a center for the homeless and other locations before being killed by police.

The Southwest Virginia Wildlife Center of Roanoke will be releasing a Mallard duck and a Canada goose at the Virginia Tech Duckpond Gazebo on Thursday, July 21st at 4 p.m.

Alex Morgan and the U.S. women's national soccer team are in Mexico preparing for a showdown with rival Canada on Monday night in the title game of the CONCACAF W Championship.

The U.S. women’s national team will play Canada in the final of the CONCACAF W Championship for a spot in the 2024 Olympics.

A major natural gas pipeline from Russia to western Europe has shut down for maintenance amid concerns that Russia may not resume the flow of gas as scheduled.

An avid paddleboarder, Mike Shoreman was told he could never paddleboard again. But he didn’t pay attention to that edict and now is trying to make history.

Well-preserved 30,000-year-old remains of a baby woolly mammoth were uncovered in northwestern Canada, according to NBC News.

In 1975, leaders of the world’s wealthy democracies gathered outside Paris to deal with an energy crisis sparked by a war and rampant inflation.

At the 2021 G7 Summit, President Biden and G7 leaders announced their intent to develop a values-driven, high-impact, and transparent infrastructure partnership to meet the enormous infrastructure needs of low- and middle-income countries and support the United States’ and its allies’ economic and national security interests. Over the past year, members of the Administration have traveled to hear directly from countries on how we can meet their infrastructure needs, deepened our coordination across the U.S Government and with the G7, honed our infrastructure investment tools, and closed game-changing deals.   At the G7 Leaders’ Summit in Schloss Elmau, Leaders will formally launch the Partnership for Global Infrastructure (PGII) to mobilize hundreds of billions of dollars and deliver quality, sustainable infrastructure that makes a difference in people’s lives around the world, strengthens and diversifies our supply chains, creates new opportunities for American workers and businesses, and advances our national security.

A United Nations summit on biodiversity will be held in Canada instead of China, the second major international event to be moved from China because of its strict anti-coronavirus policies.

Atlanta, Houston, Miami, Philadelphia and Seattle and Kansas City, Missouri, were the newcomers among the 11 U.S. sites picked to host games at the 2026 World Cup, while Baltimore, Cincinnati, Denver, Nashville, Tennessee, and Orlando, Florida, were left out.

FIFA, the world’s governing body of soccer and organizer of the World Cup, will announce the host cities for the 2026 World Cup during a 5 p.m. ET event in New York City.

Rafael Nadal got through a serious test in the French Open’s fourth round by edging Felix Auger-Aliassime 3-6, 6-3, 6-2, 3-6, 6-3 to set up a record 59th matchup against Novak Djokovic.

Drake Batherson scored on a power play 43 seconds into overtime to give Canada a 4-3 comeback victory over Sweden on Thursday night in the world hockey quarterfinals.

Massachusetts has reported a case of monkeypox in a man who recently traveled to Canada.

The Group of Seven leading economies have warned that the war in Ukraine is stoking a global food and energy crisis that threatens poor countries.

Pierre-Luc Dubois scored twice and led defending champion Canada to a 5-3 victory over Germany in their opening game at the world ice hockey championship in Helsinki.

New Zealand has begun welcoming back tourists from the U.S., Canada, Britain, Japan and more than 50 other countries for the first time in more than two years after dropping most of its remaining pandemic border restrictions.

U.S. wildlife officials have agreed to craft a new habitat plan for the rare, snow-loving Canada lynx that could include more land in Colorado and other western states where they would be protected.

U.S. churches are bracing for an unprecedented reckoning with their histories operating boarding schools for Native Americans.

The U.S. could clinch a return to soccer’s World Cup with two games to spare if it wins in Mexico City, Panama loses at home to last-place Honduras and Costa Rica fails to win at home against first-place Canada.

The U.S. finished the 2022 Winter Olympics with 24 medals, behind Norway, ROC, Germany, and Canada.

With all 109 medal events decided, competition at the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing is officially complete. And after three weeks of dominance, Norway once again claimed the top spot on the final medal table.

Great Britain and Japan will face off Saturday night for the women's curling Olympic gold medal. Here's what to know about how both teams got here, and how to watch the game.

What’s one thing that is less visible at the Winter Olympics than the Summer Games.

Sweden defeated Canada in the semifinals to advance to the men's curling gold medal gold. Canada will now face Team USA in the bronze medal match.

Sweden defeated Canada 2-0 to advance to the semifinals.

Japan was one split away from winning the women's team pursuit gold medal, but a late fall gave Canada the window to swipe the victory.

This was one Olympic final you could plan ahead for.