Yoon Suk Yeol fell from office after an ill-advised attempt to overcome an opposition-controlled legislature by declaring martial law and sending troops to surround the legislature on Dec. 3, 2024.

Eight backcountry skiers have been found dead and one remains missing and presumed dead after an avalanche near Lake Tahoe in California, officials said Wednesday, making it the deadliest avalanche in the U.S. in more than four decades.

The Israel Defence Forces have given CBC News an official explanation for the destruction of a cemetery holding the remains of 22 Canadian soldiers who died serving as peacekeepers in the Middle East in the 1950s and '60s. The IDF says they were dest...

Johannes Høsflot Klæbo is Norway's powerhouse cross-country skier who set another record on Wednesday by winning his fifth gold medal of the Milano-Cortina Winter Olympics. He's now just under highly decorated U.S. swimmer Michael Phelps on the lis...

Meta CEO and billionaire Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg is set to be questioned for the ‌first time in a U.S. court on Wednesday about Instagram's effect on the mental health of young users, as a landmark trial over youth social media addiction c...

Ramadan lanterns and string lights are appearing on streets lined with rubble in Gaza City, as Palestinians gather at damaged mosques for prayers. The UN says food aid remains insufficient for the population there.

Democrats in Washington are expanding their probe into the circumstances around U.S. President Donald Trump's  recent threat to block  the opening of the new Gordie Howe bridge connecting Windsor, Ont., and Detroit.

Late Show host Stephen Colbert is accusing CBS of forbidding him to air his interview with James Talarico — a Democratic U.S. Senate candidate — citing Federal Communications Commission (FCC) rules about ensuring a level playing field during elec...

French police investigating the beating of a far-right militant who died of brain injuries have arrested 11 people, prosecutors said on Wednesday, in a case adding fuel to long-standing divides in the country's domestic politics ahead of presidential...

Andrew Chang explains veteran host Anderson Cooper's exit from 60 Minutes and how it comes at a particularly tense time for CBS. Images provided by The Canadian Press, Reuters and Getty Images

A coalition of health and environmental groups sued the Environmental Protection Agency on Wednesday, challenging the rescinding of a scientific finding that has been the central basis for U.S. action to regulate greenhouse gas emissions and fight cl...

Scuba diver John Janzen still remembers the moment it clicked that the shipwreck before him was indeed the Lac La Belle. Janzen is part of a team led by Illinois shipwreck hunter Paul Ehorn that located the luxury steamer, which sank in a Lake Michig...

A deal that saw a Pokémon card sell for a record-breaking $16.5 million US has the finger prints of Whitbourne, N.L. on it.

The latest U.S.-brokered talks between Russian and Ukrainian envoys over Russia's all-out invasion of Ukraine ended Wednesday with no sign of a breakthrough and with both sides saying the talks were "difficult" as the war's fourth anniversary approac...

Rescue crews pushed through the mountainous California wilderness near Lake Tahoe during a snowstorm on Tuesday to rescue six backcountry skiers who survived an avalanche but were trapped by its snow and ice. Nine others from their tour group remaine...

An explosion at a fireworks shop in China's Hubei province on Wednesday killed 12 people, state media reported, the second such explosion as the country celebrates the Lunar New Year.

Iran and the United States reached an understanding on Tuesday on main "guiding principles" in talks aimed at resolving their longstanding nuclear dispute, but that does not mean a deal is imminent, Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Aragchi said.

A person who  opened fire during a youth hockey game  at an ice rink in Rhode Island on Monday killed their ex-wife and one son, Pawtucket Police Chief Tina Goncalves said Tuesday.

Russian forces pounded Ukrainian power infrastructure before a new round of ‌peace talks, killing three energy workers and leaving tens of thousands of people without power and heat, officials said Tuesday. For its part, Ukraine struck a Russian oi...

Just like that, the annual race based on a prison break, that starts with its founder blowing a conch and lighting a cigarette, came to another anticlimactic end.