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Roger Stone, a longtime confidant of Donald Trump, was "directed" by a senior official on the president’s 2016 campaign team, to seek emails damaging to Hillary Clinton from Wikileaks, prosecutors have claimed. Mr Stone, 66, was arrested on Friday in a pre-dawn raid by heavily armed FBI agents in night-vision goggles at his home in Florida. He […]

US Senator Cory Booker on Friday declared his bid for the presidency in 2020 with a sweeping call to unite a deeply polarized nation around a “common purpose.” The New Jersey Democrat, who is the second black candidate in a primary field that’s already historically diverse, delivered his message of unity amid an era marked by […]

More than two in three Metro Vancouver residents want to see housing prices fall, and some of them are people who actually own homes, according to a new poll from the Angus Reid Institute. Greater Vancouver’s housing market has been ranked North America’s least affordable, with the median home price being 11 times the median […]

HUMBOLDT, Sask. — A tragic bus crash that has sunk a Saskatchewan community into deep sorrow has also released an incredible display of human kindness as residents struggle to deal with their grief. Sixteen people died, including 10 players, and another 13 were injured after a transport truck and the bus taking the Humboldt Broncos […]

A former mayor campaigning on an anti-corruption ticket swept to victory in El Salvador’s presidential election on Sunday, bringing an end to a two-party system that has held sway over the violence-plagued Central American country for three decades. Nayib Bukele, the 37-year-old former mayor of the capital, San Salvador, won 54 percent of votes with […]

Kanye West’s recent Twitter spree has led his wife, Kim Kardashian West, to fiercely defend him, and inspired President Donald Trump to express his gratitude. The rapper tweeted on Wednesday that his wife had instructed him to make it “clear to everyone” that he doesn’t “agree with everything Trump does.” He also said he doesn’t […]

When the letter dropped through Noel Benavides’ door in the dusty border town of Roma, Texas recently, it was something of a shock. The letter was from the "Wall Program Portfolio Manager" at US Homeland Security. Mr Benavides, it said, must grant "irrevocable right of entry for the United States of America" to survey his […]

Despite the federal government’s vocal commitment to human rights, the body in charge of Canada’s national pension plan has increased its investments in companies that profit off U.S. President Donald Trump’s migrant detention centres. As first reported by nonprofit news site Documented and The Guardian, the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board — an independent agency […]

UPDATE: HuffPost Canada spoke to Faith Dickinson over Facebook. “I was in complete shock!” the 15-year-old said. “I was ecstatic! I was shaking, I had tears in my eyes. It was the most exciting phone call that I’ve ever received!!!!” Dickinson said she received the news last Tuesday from Tessy Ojo, the chief executive of […]

Europe’s top human rights court has ordered Italy to pay €18,400 (£16,000) to Amanda Knox after ruling that she was denied adequate legal representation when she was questioned over the murder of British student Meredith Kercher over a decade ago. Knox accused Italian police of slapping her around the head, threatening her verbally and not […]