Control of the media by rich white males is nothing new in Canada or the world. But some say the influence of Tesla boss Elon Musk could be bad for democracy while making him even richer. ...

A British court ruled Wednesday that the Conservative government acted illegally when it discharged hospital patients into nursing homes without testing them for COVID-19 or isolating them — a polic...

SpaceX launched four astronauts to the International Space Station for NASA on Wednesday, less than two days after completing a flight chartered by millionaires.

United States prosecutors say they've offered a plea deal to the Montreal-area woman accused of mailing poison to former president Donald Trump.

The European Commission said Wednesday that between 60 and 80 per cent of the European population was estimated to have contracted COVID-19, a rate comparable to an American estimate this week, as the...

A court in military-ruled Myanmar sentenced deposed leader Aung San Suu Kyi to five years in jail on Wednesday after finding her guilty in the first of 11 corruption cases she faces, a source with kno...

A fresh examination of meteorites that landed in the United States, Canada and Australia is bolstering the notion that early in Earth's history, such objects may have delivered chemical ingredients vi...

Elon Musk and Twitter have each agreed to pay the other $1 billion if their proposed merger falls apart because of the actions of either side.

Issues of sexism in the U.K. Parliament have come to the fore once again, as two British newspapers report a Conservative MP watching porn on his phone while in the House of Commons debating chamber. ...

Body camera video captured a "rage-filled" retired police officer attacking one of the outnumbered police officers trying to hold off a mob of rioters who stormed the U.S. Capitol, a federal prosecuto...

The Los Angeles County sheriff on Tuesday disputed allegations he orchestrated a coverup of an altercation in which a deputy knelt on a handcuffed inmate's head and said a Los Angeles Times reporter w...

Human rights groups warn that freedom of expression should not come at the cost of other human rights, after self-described "free speech absolutist" Elon Musk sealed a deal to buy Twitter. ...

Canadian military chaplains found no shortage of work over the Orthodox Easter weekend in Poland as they began meeting Ukrainian refugees. Many of them asked the chaplains to pray for them, for their ...

Law enforcement officials released a trove of video evidence Monday in the ongoing investigation of a fatal October shooting of a cinematographer by actor and producer Alec Baldwin on the set of a wes...

A Michigan police chief reversed course Monday and publicly identified the officer who fatally shot a man in the back of the head during an April 4 traffic stop.

A New York judge on Monday held former U.S. president Donald Trump in contempt of court for not producing documents subpoenaed in the state attorney general's civil probe of his business practices and...

A Turkish court on Monday sentenced prominent Turkish civil rights activist and philanthropist Osman Kavala to life in prison without parole, finding him guilty of attempting to overthrow the governme...

Elon Musk has sealed a deal to acquire Twitter for $44 billion US.

The first all-private astronaut team ever flown aboard the International Space Station — which included Canadian Mark Pathy — safely splashed down in the Atlantic off Florida's coast on Monday, co...