Western countries worked at a "war-footing pace" on Tuesday to get people out of Afghanistan, a NATO country diplomat said, as U.S. President Joe Biden looked set to come under pressure from other G7...

Kathy Hochul became the first female governor of New York at the stroke of midnight Tuesday, taking control of a state government desperate to get back to business after months of distractions over se...

An Amherstburg, Ont., nurse has returned to Canada from Haiti, where she was part of a volunteer team helping people in the earthquake-ravaged Caribbean nation. She says she saw injuries "as bad or wo...

The leader of the Proud Boys extremist group was sentenced to more than five months in jail on Monday for burning a Black Lives Matter banner that was torn down from a historic Black church in downtow...

A firefight at one of the gates of Kabul's international airport killed at least one Afghan soldier early Monday, and U.S. President Joe Biden was considering whether to extend the deadline to airlift...

The slow and sprawling storm system named Henri drenched much of the inland northeast with rain Monday, hampering cleanup efforts and threatening further flooding in areas with ground already saturate...

The head of the World Health Organization has called for a two-month moratorium on administering booster shots of COVID-19 vaccines as a way to reduce global vaccine inequality and prevent the emergen...

A U.S. government watchdog found multiple problems with the construction, manufacture and design of the Keystone pipeline, validating President Joe Biden's decision to revoke the permit for a Keyston...

An officer who shot and killed a woman during the Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol acted lawfully and in line with police department policy, the U.S. Capitol Police said Monday.

The federal government has confirmed for the first time that Canada's special forces are operating outside the security cordon of the airport in Afghanistan's capital, working to shepherd people fro...

Bayern Munich and Canada soccer star Alphonso Davies, a goodwill ambassador for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, shared words of encouragement with the six members of the Refugee Par...

Millions of people in Syria and Iraq are at risk of losing access to water, electricity and food amid rising temperatures, record low water levels due to lack of rainfall and drought, international ai...

Andrew Cuomo defended his record as New York's governor and portrayed himself Monday as the victim of a "media frenzy" over allegations of sexual harassment as he prepared for a midnight power transfe...

Greece's fire department scrambled firefighting aircraft and ground forces as at least two new blazes broke out in areas already scarred by wildfires this summer, with strong winds complicating effort...

The new toll comes at a time when relief operations are expanding — the U.S.-based aid agency Samaritan's Purse opened a field hospital Saturday — but authorities are struggling with security at d...

At least 22 people were killed, and rescue crews searched desperately Sunday amid shattered homes and tangled debris for dozens of people still missing after record-breaking rain sent floodwaters surg...

Tropical storm Henri socked the northeast with heavy wind and rain as it made landfall Sunday on the coast of Rhode Island, knocking out power to more than 100,000 homes and causing deluges that close...

The Ed Johnson Project is part of a quiet but determined U.S.-wide effort to remind everyone of the horror of the estimated 4,400 lynchings in this country in the late-19th and early-20th centuries, w...

Tensions in Haiti were rising on Saturday over a lack of aid to remote areas hardest hit by last week's devastating earthquake that killed more than 2,000 people in the impoverished Caribbean country....

Rev. Jesse Jackson, 79, and his wife Jacqueline, 77, have been hospitalized after testing positive for COVID-19, according to a statement Saturday.