A Canadian diplomatic blitz hit Washington in a late-hour plea for U.S. lawmakers to adjust a plan that Ottawa fears could devastate the auto sector. The challenge: Getting Americans' attention in an ...

On Nov. 30, Barbados transitioned to a republic by removing Queen Elizabeth as head of state. Canada now sits in an increasingly shrinking club of nations that continue to have the Queen in their high...

Alec Baldwin said in a TV interview that he did not pull the trigger of the gun that fired a live bullet and killed cinematographer Halyna Hutchins on the set of the movie Rust.

Lamine Diack, the controversial former president of world athletics, has died, his family said Friday. He was 88.

Canada has imposed new sanctions on Belarusian officials over human rights violations in that country — measures taken in coordination with the United States, the United Kingdom and the European Uni...

German Chancellor Angela Merkel says people who aren't vaccinated will be excluded from non-essential stores, cultural and recreational venues, and that parliament will consider a general vaccine mand...

Austrian Chancellor Alexander Schallenberg announced Thursday he is stepping down just two months after taking over from predecessor Sebastian Kurz, who stumbled over corruption allegations. ...

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 figure skating Grand Prix Final next week has been cancelled because of the coronavirus pandemic for the second season in a row. The Dec. 9-12 event in Osaka, Japan, was the only global event matc...

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 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...