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U.S. House Speaker Kevin McCarthy's last-ditch plan to keep the federal government temporarily open collapsed on Friday as hard-right holdouts rejected the package, making a shutdown almost certain.McCarthy's right-flank Republicans refused…

One of the last living witnesses to the fatal drive-by shooting of rapper Tupac Shakur was charged with murder with use of a deadly weapon on Friday in the 1996 killing, a long-awaited breakthrough in a case that has frustrated…

Rugby Canada is poised to expand access to a program aimed at making it easier to track players after they've been removed from the field with a suspected concussion.The blue card program has been piloted in rugby games in Ontario since…

A potent rush-hour rainstorm swamped the New York metropolitan area on Friday, shutting down parts of the city's subway system, flooding streets and highways, and delaying flights into LaGuardia Airport.Up to 13 centimetres of rain fell in…

A colonel facing firearms charges following an incident where police allege he shot at "protected wildlife" from aboard a boat has been permanently removed as commander of 8 Wing and Canadian Forces Base Trenton.Col. Leif Dahl had been…

U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein of California, a centrist Democrat who was elected to the Senate in 1992 in the "Year of the Woman" and broke gender barriers throughout her long career in local and national politics, has died. She was…

The United Auto Workers union is expanding its strike against U.S. automakers to two new plants, as 7,000 workers at a Ford plant in Chicago and a General Motors assembly factory near Lansing, Mich., will walk off the job at midday on…

A former University of Calgary Law Student is being recognized by the Law Society of Alberta — six years after he died from an aggressive form of brain cancer. On Friday, Armin Mojtahedi will be called to the bar at the Calgary Courts…

The Town of Banff is renewing the call for homeowners to replace their fruit trees with something less appealing to wildlife after a grizzly bear — known locally as The Boss — had to be hazed from residents' backyards, with the big grizzly …

He worked as a cook at a Toronto restaurant, and, somehow, he had access to sodium nitrite, commonly called toxic salt. In food, the salt enhances flavor and color, but consumed directly, it can kill — and for about two years, Canadian…

The number of people crossing the perilous Darien Gap linking Panama and Colombia has hit a record high of 400,000 in the year to September, official data showed, as migration has intensified near Texas and California border points, despite…

Canada's gross domestic product was essentially unchanged in July, as the service sector expanded slightly while goods-producing industries shrank.Statistics Canada reported Friday that the total value of Canada's entire economy was…

Russia appears to have avoided a full ban from next year's Paralympics in Paris after the International Paralympic Committee's members voted Friday in Bahrain against suspending the country's membership.The IPC wrote on X, the social media…

A suicide bombing in Pakistan killed at least 52 people and injured more than 50 on Friday at a religious gathering to mark the birthday of Prophet Muhammad in a restive province bordering Afghanistan, health officials and police said.No…

The Liberal government is looking to cut almost $1 billion from the annual budget of the Department of National Defence (DND) — a demand the country's top military commander says is prompting some "difficult" conversations within the…

Spark53:59Robotaxis and a future with driverless carsLiz Lindqwister describes the first time she rode in a self-driving taxi as "kind of a surreal experience.""You just get in the back seat. There's a robot voice that says, 'Please put on…

Immigration Minister Marc Miller says he wants to make it easier for Indigenous people to cross the international borders that have divided their homelands and families for generations.In an interview with CBC News, Miller said Canada…

Under the guise of saving refugees, the United Arab Emirates is running an elaborate covert operation to back one side in Sudan’s spiraling war — supplying powerful weapons and drones, treating injured fighters and airlifting the most…

Along hundreds of miles of Lake Victoria’s shoreline in Kenya, a squadron of young scientists and an army of volunteers are waging an all-out war on a creature that threatens the health of more people than any other on earth: the…

The narrow wooden benches in the student health clinic at Dire Dawa University in Ethiopia’s second-largest city began to fill up in March last year: feverish students slumped against their friends, cradling aching heads in their…

On a muggy evening in July on the island of Príncipe, part of a volcanic archipelago 200 miles off the West African mainland, 11,000 mosquitoes dusted in fluorescent green powder flew together into the heavy equatorial air, tiny volunteers…

The world spends at least $22 billion every year to kill mosquitoes that spread malaria, dengue and other devastating diseases.That money buys billions of liters of insecticides, millions of kilograms of larvicides and 75 million…

Thirteen Canadian rock bands of the 1970s and 1980s rolled back the clock on Thursday as they were inducted into Canada's Walk of Fame with a night chock full of good memories and even greater radio hits.Glass Tiger, Loverboy and Trooper…

A ghostly dumbo octopus stunned scientists 2,665 meters below the surface on an Ocean Exploration Trust expedition to Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument in Hawaii.

Some B.C. business owners who sell their products to India say they are worried about the future of their livelihoods as diplomatic relations break down between Canada and the Indian government.Sunny Brar, a farmer in Langley, B.C., said he…

An appeals court Thursday rejected Donald Trump's bid to delay a civil trial in a lawsuit brought by New York's attorney general, allowing the case to proceed days after a judge ruled the former U.S. president committed years of fraud and…

2 hours agoNewsDuration8:09An American soldier who fled to North Korea over two months ago is now back on U.S. soil. Andrew Chang breaks down Travis King's saga, from his unauthorized departure from the U.S. Army, to his safe return home,…

3 hours agoNewsDuration8:09An American soldier who fled to North Korea over two months ago is now back on U.S. soil. Andrew Chang breaks down Travis King's saga, from his unauthorized departure from the U.S. Army, to his safe return home,…

A Texas man pleaded guilty to federal charges on Wednesday for his role in a human-smuggling attempt in which 53 people died last year, amid a growing border crisis, after they were picked up in a border town and were left in a sweltering…

Note: This story contains distressing details.Two forensic analysts testified at the trial of Nathaniel Veltman about the electronic devices they found in the accused's apartment in London, Ont., as well as documents related to the purchase…