Democrats prosecuting Donald Trump's impeachment trial sought Thursday to directly link his words to the rioters' actions.

Yoshiro Mori resigned Friday as the president of the Tokyo Olympic organizing committee following sexist comments implying women talk too much.

Criminal charges have been dropped against two police officers seen on video last spring shoving a 75-year-old protester to the ground in Buffalo, N.Y., prosecutors said Thursday.

Britain, France and Germany on Thursday condemned a spate of attacks on Saudi Arabia claimed by Iran-aligned Houthis in Yemen, saying the proliferation of drones posed a serious threat to regional sta...

A nine-year-old Black girl who was pepper sprayed by police in Rochester, N.Y., pleaded "please don't do this to me" and "it burns" as she waited handcuffed in the back seat of a police cruiser for 16...

Russia has scored a political and medical victory last week with the scientific community’s validation of its Sputnik V vaccine against the coronavirus. Still, some still view it as another tool in ...

Fans are flocking back to see Come From Away in Melbourne, Australia, where the Canadian musical is one of the first theatre productions to reopen its doors following months of COVID-19 lockdown restr...

A British judge has ruled Thursday that the Mail on Sunday newspaper and its MailOnline website invaded Duchess of Sussex's privacy by publishing a personal letter to her estranged father. ...

Around the world, shutting down the internet has become an increasingly popular tactic of repressive and authoritarian regimes and some illiberal democracies. Digital rights groups say governments use...

Lucasfilm says Gina Carano is no longer a part of The Mandalorian cast after many people online called for her firing over a social media post that likened the experience of Jews during the Holocaust ...

Dr. Anthony Fauci predicted it would be "open season" for vaccinations in the United States by April, as a supply increase will allow most people to get shots to protect them against COVID-19. ...

Iran is pushing back at what it calls "fruitless sensationalization" of the Flight PS752 disaster in the wake of a CBC News report about a secretly-recorded conversation that suggests the world may ...

Hustler magazine publisher Larry Flynt Jr., the self-described "smut peddler who cares" who used his pornography empire and flair for the outrageous to push the limits of free speech, has died at the ...

House Democrats opened their first day of arguments in former president Donald Trump's impeachment trial with searing footage and audio from the U.S. Capitol riot as they painted Trump as an "incite...

A Georgia prosecutor's office confirmed Wednesday that it has opened a criminal investigation into "attempts to influence" the outcome of last year's U.S. general election.

Japan's Kyodo news agency and others reported on Thursday — citing unnamed sources — that Yoshiro Mori will step down on Friday as the president of the Tokyo Olympic organizing committee. ...

The Canadian government and security agencies are reviewing an audio recording in which a man — identified by sources as Iran's foreign affairs minister — discusses the possibility that the dest...

Iceland has begun issuing certificates allowing travel for those vaccinated against COVID-19 — raising possibilities and questions for travel-hungry Canadians in the North.

The United Nations main human rights body is set to consider a resolution drafted by Britain and the European Union to condemn the military coup in Myanmar and demand urgent access to the country, a t...

A California law enforcement officer has dropped his lawsuit against Toronto Raptors president Masai Ujiri that stemmed from an altercation at the 2019 NBA Finals.