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Salman Rushdie described in graphic detail on Tuesday the frenzied moments in 2022 when a masked man rushed at him on a stage in western New York and repeatedly slashed him with a knife, leaving him with life-threatening injuries.   

Donald Trump's administration has put in place a 90-day freeze on most American foreign aid, which is managed by the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID). That plan is affecting countless organizations, including some that are located in Quebec and the rest of Canada.

Under Trump's plan, Gaza's roughly 2.2 million Palestinians would be resettled and the United States would take control and ownership of the devastated coastal enclave, redeveloping it into what Trump has called the "Riviera of the Middle East."

U.S. President Donald Trump has signed an executive order aimed at encouraging the U.S. government and consumers to buy plastic drinking straws, pushing back efforts by his predecessor to phase out single-use plastics and tackle waste.

A dairy worker in Nevada who was infected with a new type of bird flu that's different from the version that has been spreading in U.S. herds since last year has recovered, federal health officials said Monday.

U.S. President Donald Trump said on Monday that Hamas should release all hostages it is holding in Gaza by midday Saturday or he would propose cancelling the Israel-Hamas ceasefire and "let hell break out."

Shopify, the Ottawa-headquartered e-commerce platform, has taken down Kanye West's merchandise website, which had been selling a $30 T-shirt emblazoned with a swastika since the weekend.

Tom Robbins, the novelist and prankster-philosopher who charmed and addled millions of readers with such screwball adventures as Even Cowgirls Get the Blues and Jitterbug Perfume, has died.

The Vatican's charity voiced outrage Monday at what it called the "reckless" and "unhuman" U.S. plans to gut USAID, with Pope Francis's point-man on development aid insisting that the Trump administration remember Christian principles about caring for others as it begins governing.

Canada's ambassador to France says he's against U.S. President Donald Trump's threat to take over Greenland, saying "in order to respect international law, you don't threaten your neighbours by invasion." 

Mikaela Shiffrin says she is dealing with post-traumatic stress disorder following a crash in November and will not defend her gold medal in giant slalom at the skiing world championships.

Contingency management programs involve testing a urine sample to determine whether someone has taken drugs or not in the past few days. For every negative test, the person gets a reward. In Washington state, that comes in the form of a gift card.