The Competition Bureau says a former executive of Quebec engineering firm Dessau received a 12-month sentence after pleading guilty Thursday in the Court of Quebec to rigging bids for City of Gatineau infrastructure contracts.

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said days ago he was canceling the chamber’s recess next week because of the partial government shutdown -- but he won’t be giving senators any reason to actually be in Washington.

The African Union called for a suspension of the proclamation of Democratic Republic of Congo’s presidential-election results, saying there were “serious doubts” about their veracity.

A Brazilian Supreme Court judge suspended an investigation into bank transactions by an aide to Flavio Bolsonaro, the son of the president and a Senator-elect, prompting a backlash among supporters.

Prime Minister Erna Solberg has tightened her grip on politics with a deal that secures a parliamentary majority to a conservative-led government in Norway for the first time in more than three decades.

The Trump administration’s decision to keep issuing oil drilling permits during the government shutdown is putting those authorizations in legal jeopardy, environmentalists argued in a filing Thursday.

TIPS auction results lead market commentary. 

Thousands of Internal Revenue Service employees are being ordered back to work, without pay, only so President Donald Trump can avoid the political embarrassment of delayed tax refunds, a federal workers’ union claimed.

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP agreed to pay $4.6 million as part of a settlement with the U.S. Justice Department over unregistered work it did with Paul Manafort to benefit the government of Ukraine in 2012 and 2013.

Trump administration officials are considering measures to roll back tariffs on Chinese products in order to calm financial markets, the Wall Street Journal reported, a report the Treasury Department quickly denied.

For the youngest members of the U.S. workforce, 2018 was a good year.

As Theresa May tries to find a Brexit compromise that can get through the British Parliament, lawmakers are plotting to take control of the process away from her.

Chinese telecom equipment giant Huawei Technologies Co. has failed to improve its devices and software -- putting U.K. national security at risk, British officials have concluded.

A Belarusian model who claimed to have evidence of possible Russian help for U.S. President Donald Trump’s election was detained Thursday upon landing in Moscow after being deported from Thailand, Interfax reported.

British Prime Minister Theresa May became the latest leader to cancel a trip to next week’s annual meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos, forced to stay home by the need to address domestic political drama.

Rudy Giuliani raised eyebrows when he said in a television interview that he doesn’t know if anyone in the Trump campaign colluded with Russia. He may be right.

Two U.S. House members from Florida are offering a bipartisan proposal to make Venezuelans fleeing their country eligible for temporary protected status, the special immigration channel for foreign nationals threatened by war or disaster.

Michael Cohen, a former lawyer for Donald Trump, said Trump directed him to rig online polls before the 2016 election in the future president’s favor, a preview of the kind of testimony he could give Congress next month.

Yes, a government that issues its own currency can pay its bills. But piling up debt for no urgent reason is lunacy.

A car bomb exploded at a police academy in Colombia’s capital, killing at least five people and injuring 10, authorities said.