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The number of Canadians travelling to the United States in February dropped year-over-year from 2025 to 2026, numbers from Statistics Canada show. Canadian-resident return trips, or the number of Canadian residents returning home from the U.S., fell 14.5 per cent in Feb. 2026 from Feb. 2025, and 31.5 per cent from Feb. 2024. Return trips by vehicle at land border crossings decreased by 12.9 per cent from Feb. 2025, and return trips by air fell by 17.6 per cent.It’s affected business in some North Dakota cities popular with road-tripping Manitobans.“We’re down about 20 per cent compared to the year before,”…

A property developer will walk free on bail after he was accused of enlisting a shadowy figure, dubbed Mr International, to chase allegeddebts.

BEIJING: Chinese tech giants have waded into the OpenClaw frenzy sweeping China – launching new artificial intelligence (AI) agents and intensifying competition in the rapidly evolving Chinese AI agent market. On Tuesday (Mar 18), Baidu unveiled a suite of AI products, tapping growing domestic interest in OpenClaw, an open-source framework for agents able to perform complex tasks with less human input than chatbots.The company introduced what it called a family of “lobsters” – a popular nickname for AI agents built on OpenClaw – spanning desktop software, cloud services, mobile tools and smart-home devices.The agents are designed to carry out multi-step tasks…

The national power grid comes back on after Cuba’s 10 million people were plunged into darkness overnight.Published On 18 Mar 202618 Mar 2026Cuba has reconnected its power grid and brought online its largest oil-fired power plant, energy officials said, putting an end to a nationwide blackout that lasted more than 29 hours amid a United States move to choke off the island’s fuel supply.After the country’s 10 million people had been plunged into darkness overnight, the Caribbean island’s national power grid had fully come back online by 6:11pm (22:11 GMT) on Tuesday. However, officials said power shortages may continue because…

Washington — The Senate voted Tuesday to begin a marathon debate session over the SAVE America Act, an elections bill that President Trump has been pressing Republicans in Congress to pass, despite its dim prospects in the upper chamber.For months, conservatives have rallied around the legislation, which would require proof of citizenship to register to vote, along with photo ID to cast a ballot. And Mr. Trump upped the ante last week when he threatened not to sign most other bills until Congress passes the SAVE America Act, adding to growing calls for Republicans to maneuver around the Senate’s 60-vote…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! EXCLUSIVE: A 16-year-old girl who had been missing for roughly one month has been safely recovered following a multi-state investigation that led to the arrest of an accused repeat kidnapper, the FBI told Fox News Digital on Tuesday.The victim was reportedly found in a hotel room last Friday near Jacksonville, Florida, after she was reported missing from Ohio on Feb. 16.Investigators identified the suspect as a Tennessee man named Negron, whose charges are currently pending. Agents also determined that Negron had been linked to a separate potential kidnapping in 2024, when he…

Nancy Guthrie has been missing for 45 days, and with the latest update in the case being of little use to authorities, one expert tells CBS News the extended timeline means it “becomes much harder to keep the investigation going.” Law enforcement sources told CBS News that additional images were obtained in the last couple of weeks from surveillance cameras installed at Guthrie’s Tucson home, where she is believed to have been abducted from in the middle of the night on Feb. 1.The images, taken from a camera fastened to a fence and focused on the back of the house and another…

Alberta Premier Danielle Smith said Tuesday her long-term goal is to be able to balance the province’s books even with moderate oil prices. In about 10 years, she said, she’d like Alberta to bring spending in line with revenues that US$60-per-barrel oil would bring to provincial coffers.“That’s where we have be. But then when you have years where you have a surprise surge and you realize a surplus, then that gives you an opportunity to support particular projects,” she said.The latest Alberta budget, tabled last month, projected a $9.4-billion deficit in the upcoming fiscal year based in part on the…

Teen Lucas Herrington could be a surprise Socceroos call-up and ex-England sensation Theo Walcott believes national teams can reap the rewards of testing youth.

NewsFeedFires have broken out in Baghdad’s Green Zone after a drone swarm, believed to have been launched by groups aligned with Iran. Al Jazeera’s Assed Baig witnessed the attacks.Published On 18 Mar 202618 Mar 2026Click here to share on social mediashare2SharegoogleAdd Al Jazeera on Googleinfo