Are we watching an outbreak of inflation? An economist who witnessed inflation come out of nowhere in the 1960s sees many similarities. Maybe we should be holding onto our hats.

Donald Trump cemented his hold on the U.S. Republican Party Wednesday, which voted to remove a rare critic of the former president within the party leadership ranks. Liz Cheney and her defenders have ...

India's coronavirus death toll crossed 250,000 on Wednesday in the deadliest 24 hours since the pandemic began, as the disease rampaged through the countryside, leaving families to weep over the dead ...

Israel hit three multi-storey towers as it hammered the Gaza Strip with airstrikes on Wednesday, and militants in the territory fired barrages of rockets at Israel, in the most severe outbreak of vi...

A new transparent global system should be set up for probing disease outbreaks, empowering the World Health Organization to deploy investigators at short notice and reveal findings, a COVID-19 pandemi...

Jay-Z, Foo Fighters and the Go-Go's were elected Wednesday to the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame their first time on the ballot, leading a class that also includes Tina Turner, Carole King and Todd Rundgren...

Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives voted Wednesday to eject Liz Cheney from her leadership post in caucus, a move likely to cement their dependence on former president Donald Trump ahead...

Problems with two major oil and gasoline pipelines in the U.S. underscore how fragile the North American energy infrastructure grid is and how vulnerable Canadians are to supply disruption. ...

Colonial Pipeline said on Wednesday it has begun to restart the largest U.S. pipeline network six days after a ransomware attack prompted it to shut the line, triggering fuel shortages and panic buyin...

Inflation worries rattled Wall Street Wednesday, pulling the Dow Jones Industrial Average more than 680 points lower and putting the major stock indexes on track for their worst week in more than six ...

Questions remained Wednesday about the future of the AstraZeneca-Oxford vaccine in Canada as Manitoba and B.C. limited use of the shot and Ontario said it was deciding how it would use an incoming shi...

This year's World Food Prize winner was surprised by the honour. Unlike previous winners, she didn't work on staple crops such as rice, wheat or corn. But her techniques for raising small fish have ma...

Three Georgia men pleaded not guilty to federal hate crime charges Tuesday in the slaying of Ahmaud Arbery, a 25-year-old Black man who authorities say was chased and shot while jogging. ...

Allegations of racial profiling at the U.S. border are nothing new. What's more unusual is how they are now coming from inside the agency that oversees the U.S. border. They're contained in a lawsuit...

A man accused of killing eight people, six of them women of Asian descent, in shootings at three Atlanta-area massage businesses was indicted Tuesday on murder charges. A prosecutor filed notice that ...

Nine people, including seven children, were killed on Tuesday and many more badly wounded after a lone teenage gunman opened fire in a school in the Russian city of Kazan, local authorities said, prom...

U.S. television network NBC said on Monday it will not air Hollywood's Golden Globes ceremony in 2022 following complaints about ethical lapses and lack of diversity among the group that hands out ...

Both the U.S. and the U.K. have vaccinated millions of people, but only the U.S. is still reporting tens of thousands of new COVID-19 cases a day. Emma Paling looks at some potential lessons for parts...

The coronavirus variant first identified in India last year is now being classified as a variant of global concern, with some preliminary studies showing that it spreads more easily, the World Health ...

Southern Ontario workers who benefit from Enbridge's Line 5 are anxiously watching what's playing out this week in Michigan, which has given the Calgary-based firm until Wednesday to shut down the p...