Nauru president: Australia’s refugee policy ‘working well’

SYDNEY, Australia — Nauru’s president says Australia’s controversial policy of sending asylum seekers to his impoverished Pacific island nation is “working well.” President Baron Waqa met...

Canada Day 2018 shouldn’t be about legalizing marijuana: Bill Blair

School bus crash sends 23 children, 1 adult to hospitals

LUMBERTON, Texas — Twenty-four people—23 of them fourth-graders—were sent to Southeast Texas hospitals after an accident involving their school bus, a pickup truck and an 18-wheeler....

US will take action on Syrian chemical attacks if UN doesn’t

U.S. Ambassador Nikki Haley warned Wednesday that the Trump administration will take action against chemical attacks in Syria that bear “all the hallmarks” of President Bashar...

Beyak removed from Senate committee over residential school comments

OTTAWA — Conservative Sen. Lynn Beyak, who famously declared “some good” came out of Canada’s residential schools, has been kicked off the Senate’s committee on Aboriginal...

Bomb suspect seeks change of venue, citing media coverage

NEW YORK — A man accused of setting off bombs in New Jersey and New York has asked a judge to move his trial to Vermont....

Trump tells newspaper Obama aide might have broken the law

WASHINGTON — Citing no evidence, President Donald Trump on Wednesday accused his predecessor’s national security adviser of breaking the law, one month after he accused former...

Godfather of Grass deported from Canada to face pot charges in the U.S.

BURLINGTON, Vt. — A man known as the Godfather of Grass, who escaped the grasp of U.S. federal agents almost a decade ago, was deported from...

McConnell claims votes to bust Supreme Court filibuster

WASHINGTON — Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell is claiming he has the votes necessary to thwart a planned Democratic filibuster of President Donald Trump’s Supreme Court...

North Korea is increasingly a focus of US China meeting

WASHINGTON — The White House is talking in more urgent terms about North Korea’s pursuit of nuclear weapons, as President Donald Trump’s talks with Chinese President...