It's been 100 days of quietude for a nation whose volatile politics has lately seemed to be on the perpetual edge of internal combustion. Joe Biden is googled less, discussed less and tweets less than...

Five U.S. states have passed laws or implemented executive orders this year limiting the ability of transgender youths to play sports or receive certain medical treatment. There's been an outcry from ...

Vital medical supplies began to reach India on Tuesday as hospitals starved of oxygen supplies and beds turned away coronavirus patients, while a surge in infections pushed the death toll toward 200,...

The FBI announced a federal civil rights investigation into last week's shooting of Andrew Brown Jr., a Black man killed by deputies in North Carolina. Also Tuesday, an independent autopsy report rel...

Egyptian officials say the Palestinian Authority later this week plans to call off its first elections in 15 years, citing Israel's refusal to allow voting in East Jerusalem. Israel told European amba...

New U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention guidance is that fully vaccinated Americans can forgo masks unless they are in a big crowd of strangers, and those who are unvaccinated can go witho...

Toronto FC, which is playing its home soccer games in Orlando due to COVID-19, saw Monday's practice grind to a halt when a large alligator ambled onto the pitch. The gator prompted the team to run to...

Alberta reported 1,539 new COVID-19 cases on Tuesday, along with seven more deaths and a test positivity rate of 11.4 per cent. The province's chief medical officer of health warned, "We are still ...

Life is inching back to normal in some parts of the world where COVID-19 rates are low. It might still be early to make travel plans, but it's closer than you might think.

Lawyers for the family of a Black man shot by sheriff's deputies in North Carolina last week, said body cam video showed Andrew Brown Jr. had been "executed" and accused officials of showing them o...

Though the world is more than a year into the pandemic and the United States has a robust vaccine rollout, Michigan nurse Nikki Hillis-Walters, who used to work in Windsor, Ont., says this time around...

The White House tells The Associated Press that the U.S. will begin sharing its entire stock of COVID-19 vaccines from AstraZeneca once the vaccine clears federal safety reviews, with 60 million doses...

Apple Inc. rolled out a software update for its mobile devices on Monday that gives users the option to stop apps from tracking their location and sharing other identifying information with third part...

The U.S. Justice Department is opening a sweeping probe into policing in Louisville, Ky., after the March 2020 death of Breonna Taylor, who was fatally shot by police during a raid at her home. ...

Ukraine's president on Monday unveiled a new nuclear waste repository in the deserted exclusion zone around Chornobyl, the site of the world's worst nuclear disaster that unfolded exactly 35 years ago...

The WHO has redeployed 2,600 staff members from other programs in India to help support the effort to fight the surging cases of COVID-19.

Ontario has made a formal request to the Canadian Armed Forces to help deal with a surge in critical-care cases associated with COVID-19's third wave, while Manitoba announced a series of new restric...

The 93rd annual Academy Awards returned to our screens on Sunday as the capstone on a year of COVID-19 adapted awards shows. It was a night of firsts and fashion, speeches and upsets, and definitely o...

Chloé Zhao's history-making Oscars sweep, winning best director and best picture, is being met with a muted response in her country of birth, and even censorship.

The European Union's executive branch said Monday that it has launched legal action against coronavirus vaccine-maker AstraZeneca for failing to respect the terms of its contract with the 27-nation bl...