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Pipeline politics may be the reason why U.S. President Barack Obama has yet to nominate the next U.S. ambassador to Canada. More...

The U.S. Senate homeland security committee is holding a field hearing in Montana today to examine the challenges of the northern border. Democrat Sen. Jon Tester says installing sensor technology could be a low cost measure to monitor who and what is crossing the international line. More...

Marches and rallies against seed giant Monsanto were held across Canada, the U.S. and in dozens of other countries Saturday. More...

A Tunisian-born man who "previously resided" in Canada has been arrested in the U.S. and is being linked to a man who was arrested in Canada in connection with an alleged plot to derail a Via Rail passenger train. More...

By Jeff Mason and Doug Palmer WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama tapped Mike Froman and Penny Pritzker for the last two vacant Cabinet slots on his economic team on Thursday, turning to a law school classmate who is already one of his chief advisers and a billionaire businesswoman who...

By Patricia Zengerle, Samuel P. Jacobs and Mark Hosenball WASHINGTON/CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts (Reuters) - U.S. intelligence was alerted when one of the Boston bombing suspects traveled to a volatile region of Russia last year, U.S. officials said on Wednesday, raising new questions about the...

Six people were taken to hospital with minor injuries after a Royal Canadian Navy frigate was struck by a U.S. fishing trawler near CFB Esquimalt on Vancouver Island. More...

CARTAGENA, Colombia - Unprecedented Latin American opposition to U.S. sanctions on Cuba left President Barack Obama isolated at a summit on Sunday and illustrated Washington's declining influence in a region being aggressively courted by China. Unlike the rock-star status...

AP - In a display of unity between allies who often disagree, President Barack Obama assured Israel's visiting leader Monday that the United States "will always have Israel's back," and said the U.S. and Israel agree that diplomacy is the best way to resolve the crisis over potential Iranian...

U.S. authorities have charged a former Quebec doctor in what is being called one of the largest Medicare fraud schemes in U.S. history. More...

Two dating websites - including Vancouver-based Plenty of Fish - are being sued by the parents of a dead U.S. soldier who say his picture was used years after his death without permission. More...

AP - Defense Secretary Leon Panetta laid out the administration's most explicit portrayal of the U.S. drawdown in Afghanistan, saying Wednesday that U.S. and other international forces in Afghanistan expect to end their combat role in 2013 and continue a training and advisory role with Afghan...

AP - The U.S. Army plans to slash the number of combat brigades from 45 to as low as 32 in a broad restructuring of its fighting force aimed at cutting costs and reducing the service by about 80,000 soldiers, according to U.S. officials familiar with the plans. More...

A Montreal man who crossed the U.S. border using a scan of his passport saved on his iPad says he hopes the practice will become commonplace in the near future. More...

AP - The Obama administration hopes to restore momentum in the spring to U.S. talks with the Taliban insurgency that had reached a critical point before falling apart this month because of objections from Afghan President Hamid Karzai, U.S. and Afghan officials said. More...

(CNN) -- America's contentious and costly war in Iraq officially ended Thursday with an understated ceremony in Baghdad that contrasted sharply with its thundering start almost nine years ago. U.S. troops lowered the flag of command that flew over the Iraqi capital, carefully rolled it and cased...

AP - As few as 12 different Chinese groups, largely backed or directed by the government there, commit the bulk of the China-based cyberattacks stealing critical data from U.S. companies and government agencies, according to U.S. cybersecurity analysts and experts. More...

A new perimeter agreement between Canada and the U.S. aims to make everything from travel to business easier, co-ordinating regulations to cut red tape that the government estimates costs the economy $16 billion a year. More...

AP - President Barack Obama is renewing the U.S. commitment to ending HIV and AIDS on Thursday, setting goals for getting more people access to life-saving AIDS drugs and boosting spending on treatment of the virus in the U.S. by $50 million dollars. More...

AP - U.S. stock futures are following European markets lower Tuesday. But the losses were trimmed after a stronger than expected U.S. retail sales report. More...