The Minneapolis mayor imposed a moratorium on no-knock warrants Friday, two days after a SWAT team entered an apartment and killed Amir Locke, a 22-year-old Black man who his parents said was "execute...

Russia's Vladimir Putin and China's Xi Jinping issued a joint statement highlighting what it called "interference in the internal affairs" of other states, as both leaders face criticism from Washingt...

The Republican Party on Friday censured two of its own over their involvement in a congressional investigation of the Jan. 6 attack on Capitol Hill, which the party described as "ordinary citizens e...

Propelled in part by the wildly contagious Omicron variant, the U.S. death toll from COVID-19 hit 900,000 on Friday, less than two months after eclipsing 800,000.

The U.S. military investigation into the deadly attack during the Afghanistan evacuation has concluded that a suicide bomber carrying explosives packed with ball bearings acted alone, and that the dea...

Rescuers inched closer Friday to reaching a five-year-old boy trapped for three days in a Morocco well in an operation hampered by concerns about ground stability.

A man who shot and killed four people at a Nashville Waffle House in a 2018 early morning attack has been found guilty on four counts of 1st-degree murder.

Michael Avenatti was convicted Friday of charges he cheated the porn actor Stormy Daniels out of nearly $300,000 US she was supposed to get for writing a book about an alleged tryst with former presid...

Eighteen-year-old freestyle ski star Eileen Gu of China could become the first action-sports athlete to win Olympic gold in three separate events at the Beijing Games.

Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s trip to Ukraine on Tuesday had little chance of being portrayed as anything other than a flight from his domestic woes — and potentially an ill-judged one. ...

Rising energy, commodity and labour costs are contributing to rising prices when it comes to Belgium's favourite snack — fries.

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday praised "unprecedented" close relations with China, as he met with his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping in Beijing hours ahead of the Winter Olympics opening c...

Women's hockey captain Marie-Philip Poulin and men's speed skater Charles Hamelin are Canada's flag-bearers at the opening ceremony of the Beijing 2022 Olympic Games. Plus, see other highlights from t...

The U.S. accused the Kremlin on Thursday of an elaborate plot to fabricate an attack by Ukrainian forces that Russia could use as a pretext to take military action against its neighbour. ...

Rescue workers in northern Morocco are frantically digging for a second straight day to reach a five-year-old boy trapped down a 32-metre deep well, officials said Thursday.

Four of Boris Johnson's closest aides resigned on Thursday in a turbulent day for his government, as the British prime minister tried to reset his administration in the face of a series of scandals th...

A makeshift memorial is growing in the English community northeast of London where authorities say Ashley Wadsworth, 19, from Vernon, B.C., was killed on Tuesday. 

About 350,000 homes and businesses lost power across the U.S. on Thursday as freezing rain and snow weighed down tree limbs and encrusted power lines, part of a winter storm that caused a deadly torna...

A batch of cocaine that has killed at least 23 people in Argentina appears to have been laced with a synthetic opioid, and police are scrambling to get as much of it off the streets as they can. ...