The Taliban movement is now the most powerful symbol in the radical jihadist movement — but it risks becoming a victim of its own success.

The type of protest seen at Canadian hospitals this week is a familiar and unhappy fact of life for medical professionals in parts of the U.S. CBC spoke to health-care workers in West Virginia who say...

Billionaire Jared Isaacman, the American founder and CEO of an e-commerce firm, will lead three fellow spaceflight novices on a three-day trip to orbit the Earth set to begin Wednesday with blastoff f...

California Gov. Gavin Newsom on Tuesday emphatically defeated a recall aimed at kicking him out of office early, a contest the Democrat framed as part of a national battle for his party's values in th...

North Korea fired two ballistic missiles into waters off its eastern coast Wednesday afternoon, two days after claiming to have tested a newly developed missile in a resumption of its weapons displays...

Norm Macdonald, the Canadian-born comedian who became an influential cast member of Saturday Night Live after he joined in 1993, has died. He was 61.

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Tuesday sought to ward off bipartisan congressional criticism of the Biden administration's Afghanistan withdrawal as new intelligence estimates warned that...

Christo and Jeanne-Claude dreamed of wrapping the Arc de Triomphe early in their careers. But it took 60 years before the fabric would be draped on the national monument in a posthumous installation. ...

A new chief prosecutor was sworn in Tuesday just hours after his predecessor asked a judge to charge Prime Minister Ariel Henry with the killing of the president and to bar him from leaving Haiti, a ...

Tropical storm Nicholas weakened to a tropical depression early Tuesday evening, after slowing to a crawl over southeastern Texas and southwestern Louisiana but still drenching the region with floodin...

At least 18 of the 20 gorillas at Atlanta's zoo have now tested positive for COVID-19, an outbreak that began just days before the zoo had hoped to obtain a veterinary vaccine for the primates, offici...

California Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom is in a fight for his political future, though polls suggest he should survive a recall election on Tuesday in which conservative talk-show host Larry Elder has...

The African Union on Tuesday accused manufacturers of COVID-19 vaccines of denying African countries a fair chance to buy them, and urged manufacturing countries — in particular India — to lift ex...

U.S. consumer prices rose at their slowest pace in seven months in August, far less than economists were expecting and a hopeful sign that inflation pressures may be cooling.

Some of the military pilots who fled Afghanistan the day the government collapsed are now in the United Arab Emirates, while the fate of their comrades in Tajikistan — who are calling on Canada to o...

Scientists are racing to collect ice cores — along with long-frozen records they hold of climate cycles — as global warming melts glaciers and ice sheets. Some say they are running out of time....

After a yearlong delay due to COVID-19, this year's Met Gala kicked off Monday evening with a bevy of surprise superstars and a theme celebrating American fashion.

Additional COVID-19 vaccine booster shots are not yet needed for the general population, according to a new medical journal article from leading international scientists.

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken defended the Biden administration's much-criticized handling of the military withdrawal from Afghanistan during a contentious congressional hearing Monday. ...

Nicholas strengthened into a Category 1 hurricane Monday as it headed toward landfall along the Texas Gulf Coast and it was expected to bring heavy rain and floods to coastal areas from Mexico to stor...