One of the most important legal cases in modern U.S. history was heard by the country's Supreme Court on Wednesday. It involves abortion and could upend decades of precedent. Here are five takeaways....

The suspension of all WTA tournaments in China because of concerns about the safety of tennis star Peng Shuai, who accused a former government official of sexual assault, could lead to event cancellat...

The House panel investigating the Jan. 6 U.S. Capitol insurrection voted Wednesday to pursue contempt charges against Jeffrey Clark, a former U.S. Justice Department official who refused to answer the...

Major League Baseball plunged into its first work stoppage in a quarter-century when the sport's collective bargaining agreement expired Wednesday night and owners immediately locked out players in a ...

A person in California became the first identified U.S. case of the omicron coronavirus variant, the White House announced Wednesday as scientists continue to study the risks posed by the new variant....

A 15-year-old boy was charged Wednesday with murder, terrorism and other counts for a shooting that killed four fellow students and injured others at Michigan's Oxford High School.

A World War II bomb exploded at a construction site next to a busy railway line in Munich on Wednesday, injuring four people, one of them seriously, German authorities said.

Stacey Abrams, the Georgia Democrat and leading voting rights activist, said Wednesday that she will launch another campaign to become the nation's first Black woman governor.

Several families of the 10 people who died from injuries in a massive crowd surge of fans at the Astroworld Festival have turned down an offer by headliner Travis Scott to pay for their loved ones' fu...

U.S. Supreme Court justices on Wednesday heard arguments on whether to uphold a Mississippi law that bans abortion after 15 weeks, though it will be some time before it is known whether the court's co...

A sperm whale with the same rare colouring as the fictional Moby Dick has been spotted off the coast of Jamaica.

Canadian troops in the Baltic state of Latvia are just 300 kilometres from the border with Russia, as tens of thousands of Russian troops mobilize and take a combat-ready stance to the south. On a vis...

The pandemic meant quite a few changes for Ryden's Border Store, a popular shop and parcel delivery warehouse located in northern Minnesota — just across the Canada-U.S. border crossing at Pigeon...

The Gucci family is not pleased with the depiction of their relatives in the new film House of Gucci. In a statement issued this week, they said the narrative is "anything but accurate" and that the ...

The White House says it has no immediate plan to tighten the border with Canada again after new COVID-19 cases involving the omicron variant.

A 15-year-old student opened fire at his Michigan high school about 50 kilometres north of Detroit Tuesday, killing three students aged 14 to 17, and wounding eight others, including a teacher. ...

CNN on Tuesday suspended news anchor Chris Cuomo indefinitely over his role in defending his brother, former New York governor Andrew Cuomo, regarding sexual harassment allegations.

A powerful storm pounded Istanbul and other parts of Turkey on Monday, killing at least four people and causing havoc in the city of 15 million people, reports said.

Honduras ruling party conceded defeat Tuesday in presidential elections held two days earlier, giving victory to leftist opposition candidate Xiomara Castro and easing fears of another contested vote ...