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Twice a year, a patrol team scrutinizes barns, straw bales and grain storage bins along a 600-kilometre stretch of the Alberta-Saskatchewan boundary. They’re looking for rats, continuing a 75-year mission to stop the rodents from making themselves at home in the province. “My grandfather,” says Lincoln Poulin, the president of Poulin’s Pest …

WARNING: This article contains graphic details of violence. An Illinois landlord who killed a six-year-old Palestinian American boy and severely injured the boy’s mother in a vicious hate-crime attack days after the war in Gaza began was sentenced Friday to 53 years in prison. Joseph Czuba, 73, was found guilty in …

Seventy-year-old Tan Hoang vowed he would never return to Vietnam after fleeing the country with his family on a makeshift wooden boat. Officers in Vietnam remind him of the communist soldiers who once stormed and captured Saigon, the former South Vietnam capital now called Ho Chi Minh City. The fall …

Disgraced former U.S. Congress member George Santos, who lied about his life story and defrauded donors, was sentenced Friday to more than seven years in prison, sobbing as he heard his punishment. Santos, who pleaded guilty last summer to federal wire fraud and aggravated identity theft, appealed for mercy, telling …

A former U.S. army intelligence officer has been handed a seven-year prison sentence after selling “sensitive” defence information. The U.S. Department of Justice said in a news release that Korbein Schultz was sentenced to 84 months in prison on Wednesday “for conspiring to collect and transmit national defence information … to …

Canadian veteran Jim Parks is getting ready to visit the Netherlands again, 80 years after playing a role in liberating the country from German occupation.  And he can expect a warm welcome.  “He’s still our hero,” said Marco Kalmijn, who is part of the Canadian Liberators Foundation, which helps Canadian …

Syrian leader Ahmed al-Sharaa scrambled on Sunday to contain some of the deadliest violence in 13 years of civil war, pitting loyalists of deposed president Bashar al-Assad against the country’s new Islamist rulers. The clashes, which a war monitoring group said have already killed 1,000 people, mostly civilians, continued for …

As It Happens6:36He served in the U.S. military for 20 years, only to get fired from Veteran Affairs by email After 20 years in the U.S. military, including tours in Iraq and Afghanistan, Luke Graziani was proud to serve his country again by working for the Department of Veterans Affairs. …

A 49-year-old cold case homicide was put to rest inside a Calgary courtroom on Monday with both the killer and his teenage victim’s daughter — who was just seven months old at the time of her mother’s death — speaking publicly for the first time since murder charges were announced.  …

Carl Dean, Dolly Parton’s husband of nearly 60 years, died Monday in Nashville. He was 82. According to a statement provided to The Associated Press by Parton’s publicist, Dean will be laid to rest in a private ceremony with immediate family attending. “Carl and I spent many wonderful years together. …