A Moscow kebab shop owner faces a backlash after he opened a take-out food shop bearing the name of Joseph Stalin, as Russians remain deeply conflicted over the totalitarian wartime leader's legacy an...

Federal prosecutors offered an ominous new assessment of last week's siege of the U.S. Capitol by President Donald Trump's supporters on Thursday, saying in a court filing that rioters intended "to ...

A strong, shallow earthquake shook Indonesia's Sulawesi island just after midnight, causing landslides and sending people fleeing from their homes in the nighttime darkness. At least 10 people were co...

On Thursday, NASA and NOAA released their look at the 2020 state of the climate. While the numbers may not be exactly the same, the message is: Earth is continuing to warm and it has dire consequences...

A growing list of major U.S. corporations say they will cut off campaign contributions to Republicans who voted to challenge U.S. president-elect Joe Biden’s victory.

Inauguration officials announced on Thursday that Jennifer Lopez and Lady Gaga will perform in person at the presidential inauguration on Jan. 20.

Only five per cent of Republicans in the House of Representatives voted to impeach Donald Trump in the most serious charge against a president ever. Yet there are still trouble spots ahead for Trump, ...

U.S. president-elect Joe Biden unveiled a $1.9 trillion coronavirus plan Thursday to turn the tide on the pandemic, speeding up the vaccine rollout and providing financial help.

Airlines and airports say they are stepping up security before next week's presidential inauguration, with Delta, United and other airlines saying they will prohibit passengers flying to the Washingto...

Ontarians woke up under a new stay-at-home order on Thursday as Alberta announced it will ease some public health restrictions starting Monday.

Justice Department leaders under President Donald Trump knew their 2018 "zero tolerance" border policy would result in family separations but pressed on with prosecutions even as other agencies became...

From a flying Cadillac to "the world's smartest mask", here's a look at some of the most interesting items on virtual display at this year's CES tech conference.

British musicians are demanding that the U.K. government faces the music after new post-Brexit regulations failed to consider their unique work lives and left them in the lurch.

A federal U.S. judge on Thursday ordered a retired firefighter in Pennsylvania to be detained pending trial after prosecutors filed charges alleging he hurled a fire extinguisher at police during last...

Aphria Inc. chief executive Irwin Simon is seeing green as Democrat Joe Biden prepares to be sworn in as president of the United States next week.

Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey defended his company's ban of U.S. President Donald Trump in a philosophical Twitter thread that is his first public statement on the subject.

The number of Americans filing first-time applications for unemployment benefits surged last week, confirming a weakening in labour market conditions as a worsening COVID-19 pandemic disrupts operatio...

Both Pope Francis and former pope Benedict have received the first dose of a vaccine against coronavirus, the Vatican said on Thursday.

An international team of scientists led by the World Health Organization arrived on Thursday in China's central city of Wuhan to investigate the origins of the novel coronavirus that sparked the glo...

Learning the lessons of early-warning intelligence and information-sharing before the next pandemic strikes should be a priority for Canada and its allies, say experts and former government officials....