Months ago, Israel had wrestled down its daily COVID-19 case counts to double digits. This week, it spiked to around 11,000. This reversal of fortune provides lessons for countries like Canada about...

Louisiana communities beginning the huge task of clearing debris and repairing the damage inflicted by Hurricane Ida are facing the dispiriting prospect of weeks without electricity in the oppressive,...

U.S. President Joe Biden defended his handling of the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan, including the frantic final evacuation from Kabul airport in an address to the nation Tuesday.  ...

A COVID-19 surge in the United States is stretching oxygen supplies and sending hospitals scrambling for more ventilators, even as there are signs of hope that the spread of the virus is slowing down ...

Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam granted posthumous pardons Tuesday to seven Black men who were executed in 1951 for the rape of a white woman, in a case that attracted pleas for mercy from around the worl...

Canadians are growing frustrated with current U.S. travel rules that allow them to fly — but not drive — to the U.S. during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Mike Richards is out as executive producer of Jeopardy! and Wheel of Fortune days after he stepped down as the quiz show's newly appointed successor to beloved host Alex Trebek because of past misogy...

A day after an explosive wildfire emptied a resort city at the southern tip of Lake Tahoe, a huge firefighting force braced for strong winds Tuesday as some residents in neighbouring Nevada were order...

American railway regulator the Surface Transportation Board has blocked Canadian National Railway's bid to buy Kansas City Southern in its current form because the deal would include a voting trust th...

Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes's claims that she was abused by the company's chief operating officer, who at the time was her boyfriend, could complicate jury selection in her highly anticipated fr...

Now that U.S. is gone, the Taliban have Afghanistan all to themselves — and now face the challenge of governing with little experience beyond the business end of a rifle, no Western money and the th...

Rescuers set out in hundreds of boats and helicopters to reach people trapped by floodwaters and utility crews mobilized to restore power Monday after a furious Hurricane Ida swamped the Louisiana co...

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued the Level 3 travel advisory for Canada on Monday, which indicate "a high level of COVID-19 in the country."

A missing track, two controversial collaborators and a reignited feud with Drake — here's what you need to know about Kanye West's new album Donda.

The U.S. on Monday completed its withdrawal from Afghanistan, ending its longest war and closing a chapter in military history likely to be remembered for colossal failures, unfulfilled promises and a...

Leaded gasoline has finally reached the end of the road, the UN environment office said Monday, after the last country in the world to use it stopped selling the highly toxic fuel.

North Korea appears to have restarted a nuclear reactor that is widely believed to have produced plutonium for nuclear weapons, the UN atomic watchdog said in an annual report, highlighting the isolat...

After several days of testimony from women claiming they were groomed and sexually abused by R. Kelly, a man took the witness stand at Kelly's sex-trafficking trial to say the R&B star exploited him i...

Toyota has suspended use of all of its self-driving e-Palette transportation pods at the Tokyo Paralympic Games village.

Jacques Rogge, who oversaw an era of political and financial stability in the Olympic movement after its worst ethics scandal and pursued a hard line against doping during his 12 years as IOC presiden...