Northern states have become the new American COVID-19 hotspots as the cold weather returns. There are record case spikes along Canada's border, prompting some authorities to warn against cross-border ...

Rescue workers rushing to a highway accident found a horrific scene of death and injury after a freight truck jammed with as many as 200 migrants tipped over and crashed into the base of a steel pedes...

Serious concerns are being raised about Facebook’s ability to curb the spread of hate speech, inflammatory language and intentional disinformation on its site in India, home to the largest number of...

A U.S. federal appeals court ruled Thursday against an effort by former president Donald Trump to shield documents from the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 insurrection at the Capitol. ...

Former Empire actor Jussie Smollett was convicted Thursday on five of six charges he staged an anti-gay, racist attack on himself nearly three years ago and then lied to Chicago police about it. ...

While the omicron variant is surging in the U.K., the country's vaccine booster program is going well. But public confidence in the government has been shaken by a scandal over a Christmas party at Pr...

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday brushed aside complaints about prosecutors' move to close one of the country's most prominent human rights groups, claiming that it listed Nazi collaborato...

Rapper Travis Scott said in an interview that he didn't know that fans had died at his Astroworld festival in Houston until after his performance.

Vaccine makers are racing to update their COVID-19 shots against the newest coronavirus threat even before it's clear a change is needed, just in case. 

China on Thursday dismissed the decision by Canada and the United Kingdom to join Washington's diplomatic boycott of the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympic Games as a "farce."

The New Zealand government plans to ban young people from ever buying cigarettes in their lifetime in one of the world's toughest crackdowns on the tobacco industry.

A federal jury in Arkansas has convicted Josh Duggar, the eldest son on the TLC reality show 19 Kids and Counting, of downloading and possessing child pornography

Starbucks workers at one of the coffee chain's locations in Buffalo, N.Y., have voted to unionize over the company's objections, pointing the way to a new labour model for the 50-year old coffee giant...

Robbie Shakespeare, the Jamaican bass guitarist best known as half of the reggae and dub duo Sly and Robbie, died on Wednesday, Jamaica's culture minister said. He was 68.

The head of a U.S. Senate panel examining social media's negative effects on young people has dismissed as "a public relations tactic" some safety measures announced by Instagram, the popular photo-s...

A suburban Minneapolis police officer who has said she drew her gun instead of her Taser when she fatally shot Black motorist Daunte Wright went on trial for manslaughter charges Wednesday. ...

A U.S. Coast Guard diver recovered a body from a submerged vehicle stuck in the rapids just metres from the brink of Niagara Falls on Wednesday.

Calgary pilot Jameel Janjua tells Power & Politics about his role in the upcoming Virgin Galactic space flights for tourists.

A campaign to turn a derelict prison into an arts hub has been given a major boost by Banksy — who says he didn't know about the building until he passed it, by chance, on a bus.

The U.S. just lost Afghanistan to the Taliban. Can it really deter Russia's Vladimir Putin from invading Ukraine? We're about to find out whether an old superpower, using new sanction threats, can sti...