In announcing Friday's phone call with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, the White House's intended message was very clear: Traditional allies are back in favour while despots and dictators are on the ou...

Opening arguments in the second Senate impeachment trial of former U.S. president Donald Trump will begin the week of Feb. 8. Trump is charged with incitement of insurrection in relation to the Jan. ...

There is some evidence that a new coronavirus variant first identified in southeast England carries a higher risk of death .than the original strain, the British government's chief scientific adviser ...

U.S. President Joe Biden has directed law enforcement and intelligence officials in his administration to study the threat of domestic violent extremism in the United States, an undertaking being laun...

A lot has changed since the Keystone XL project was proposed in 2005. Ramped up domestic oil production and new supply routes have lessened the U.S.'s need for the hundreds of thousands of barrels o...

China has granted Canadian officials in Beijing on-site virtual consular access to detained Canadian Michael Kovrig but not to his fellow detainee Michael Spavor, Global Affairs Canada said today. ...

The master tenant of a San Francisco Bay Area warehouse where 36 people perished when a fire ignited during a 2016 dance party pleaded guilty Friday to the deaths, avoiding a second trial after the fi...

Dr. Anthony Fauci says a lack of candour and facts about the coronavirus pandemic under former U.S. president Donald Trump "very likely" cost lives because it delayed getting sound scientific advice t...

Veteran NBC News journalist Tom Brokaw said Friday that he is retiring from the network after 55 years.

U.S. President Joe Biden's cabinet is starting to take shape. Lloyd J. Austin was confirmed by the Senate Friday, becoming the first Black secretary of defence. Janet Yellen is also expected to be app...

Hank Aaron, who endured racist threats with stoic dignity during his pursuit of Babe Ruth's home run record in the pre-steroids era, died early Friday. He was 86.

As countries such as Canada and the United States continue vaccinating millions of citizens, global health experts warn the pandemic could keep raging if lower-income nations don't get their share of ...

The global release of the James Bond movie No Time to Die was postponed to October from April, its producers said, another setback for movie theatres trying to rebuild a business crushed by the corona...

Tesla chief and billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk took to Twitter on Thursday to promise a $100 million US prize for development of the "best" technology to capture carbon dioxide emissions. ...

Google on Friday threatened to make its search engine unavailable in Australia if the government went ahead with plans to make tech giants pay for news content.

U.S. Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell is proposing to push back the start of Donald Trump's impeachment trial by a week or more to give the former president time to review the case. ...

Donald Trump could have spent his final weeks in office boasting about his Republican administration's achievements and trying to solidify his status as the party's voice and likely front-runner f...

It may be too early to gauge whether the wave of disillusionment that swept through the QAnon ranks on inauguration day is a turning point or a fleeting setback for the movement.

IOC president Thomas Bach and local organizers are pushing back against reports that the postponed Tokyo Olympics will be cancelled.

Pfizer has slashed in half the volume of COVID-19 vaccines it will deliver to some EU countries this week, government officials said on Thursday, as frustration over the U.S. drugmaker's unexpected cu...