Joe Biden has a bad case of the first-year presidential blahs. His polling numbers have suffered a historic slide. In particular, he's lost working-class voters. Can his big budget bill reverse the tr...

When the U.S. military withdrew from Afghanistan this summer, the Afghan interpreters and mission staff who had worked alongside the Canadian Armed Forces were left at the mercy of the Taliban. The Fi...

Patrik Mathews — a former Manitoba army reservist and an alleged recruiter for a neo-Nazi group — is expected to learn whether he will spend decades in prison at his sentencing Thursday morning in...

Hundreds of migrants from Central America and the Caribbean trekked across Mexico on Wednesday, the latest in a series of caravans that have sought to reach the U.S. border in recent months. ...

Young women across the U.K. are boycotting nightclubs and pubs Wednesday as university towns and cities join in a national "girls night in" protest after increasing reports of drink spiking and studen...

Top U.S. military officer Gen. Mark Milley has provided the first official U.S. confirmation of a Chinese hypersonic weapons test that experts say appears to show Beijing's pursuit of an Earth-orbiti...

Pope Francis has agreed to visit Canada to help ongoing efforts at reconciliation with Indigenous people following  the discovery of hundreds of potential burial sites at former church-run residenti...

Authorities in New Mexico say they have recovered a "lead projectile" believed to have been fired from the gun used by actor Alec Baldwin in the accidental shooting on the set of the film Rust. ...

The European Union raised the stakes Wednesday in a standoff with Poland over judicial independence and the primacy of EU law, with the bloc's top court fining Poland $1 million euros ($1.43 million C...

Pharmaceutical company Merck agreed to allow other drugmakers to produce its COVID-19 pill, in a move aimed at helping millions of people in poorer countries get access to the potentially life-saving ...

The African Union has suspended Sudan's participation in all activities until the restoration of the civilian-led authority, the AU said in a communique dated Tuesday.

The United States has issued its first passport with an "X" gender designation — a milestone in the recognition of the rights of people who don't identify as male or female — and expects to be abl...

A Wisconsin judge has laid out the final ground rules on what evidence will be allowed when Kyle Rittenhouse goes on trial next week for shooting three people during a protest against police brutality...

A Brazilian Senate committee recommended on Tuesday that President Jair Bolsonaro face a series of criminal indictments for actions and omissions related to the world's second-highest COVID-19 death t...

Queen Elizabeth has cancelled her planned engagement at the UN climate conference, accepting advice from doctors to rest, Buckingham Palace said Tuesday.

Russia has recorded another high for daily COVID-19 deaths as authorities across the country moved to keep most people off work in line with a Kremlin order aimed at stemming the spread. ...

A campaign that began with ordinary people donating frequent-flyer miles has raised enough in two months to provide 40,000 flights for refugees from Afghanistan, and organizers and the White House are...

Claudette Colvin, an 82-year-old Black woman who became a civil rights pioneer when she was arrested as a teen for refusing to move to the back of an Alabama bus in 1955, wants to have her records exp...

India is not yet ready to leave coal behind, a critical energy source that provides more than 70 percent of the developing country's power as well as 4 million jobs, even as those in coal-rich states ...

The release of Prime Minister Abdallah Hamdok and his wife followed international condemnation of the coup and calls for the military to release all the government officials who were detained when Gen...