A jury in Connecticut says conspiracy theorist Alex Jones should pay $965 million US to people who suffered from his lies that the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting in 2012 was a hoax. ...

World Health Organization chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said on Wednesday a clinical trial of vaccines to combat the Sudan strain of Ebola could start within weeks as an outbreak of the disease in ...

The return of artifacts from the Wounded Knee Massacre will help Lakota Sioux elders start to heal from their trauma, and give young people a chance to learn about their history, says Kevin Killer. ...

U.S. President Joe Biden says he'll grant automatic pardons to all Americans convicted on federal charges of simple possession of marijuana. Some Canadian legal experts say that's the approach Canada ...

As Haiti rapidly spirals into chaos, a high-ranking Haitian diplomat has called on Canada and the United States to form a strike force to confront gangs creating a humanitarian crisis in the C...

Calls for renewed protests in Iran saw demonstrators on the streets again, weeks after the death of a 22-year-old woman who had been detained by the country's morality police, an advocacy group said. ...

A former San Antonio, Texas, police officer was charged Tuesday with two counts of aggravated assault by a peace officer in last week's shooting of a teen who was eating a hamburger in his car in a Mc...

Israel's prime minister said Tuesday that the country has reached a "historic agreement" with neighbouring Lebanon over their shared maritime border that could pave the way for natural gas exploration...

Citing Russia’s war in Ukraine, chronic inflation pressures, punishing interest rates and the lingering consequences of the global pandemic, the 190-country lending group said economies around the w...

Iran intensified its crackdown Tuesday on Kurdish areas in the country's west as protests sparked by the death of a 22-year-old woman detained by the morality police rage on, activists said. ...

A Spanish baby has become the world's first recipient of a successful intestine transplant from a donor who died of heart failure, hospital officials say.

Prosecutors dropped charges against Adnan Syed on Tuesday in the 1999 killing of Hae Min Lee, a case that was chronicled in the first season of the hit podcast Serial.

U.S. Supreme Court justices on Wednesday will hear arguments in a copyright dispute between Andy Warhol's estate and photographer Lynn Goldsmith over his paintings of Prince, based on a photograph she...

Droves of tourists from abroad began arriving in Japan on Tuesday, with the end of pandemic-fighting border restrictions that had been in place for more than two years.

Rescue workers using drones and trained dogs searched for survivors Monday following a massive landslide in central Venezuela, as the death toll rose to 34 and residents described harrowing tales of e...

New Zealand's government on Tuesday proposed taxing the greenhouse gasses that farm animals make from burping and peeing as part of a plan to tackle climate change.

Workers at the site of a major complex of refineries crucial for Iran's massive offshore natural gas field protested on Monday over the death of a 22-year-old woman, online videos appeared to show. ...

Jennifer Siebel Newsom, a documentary filmmaker and actor who is married to California Gov. Gavin Newsom, is among the accusers of Harvey Weinstein who will testify at his rape and sexual assault tria...

The U.S. midterm elections are in a month. Here's the outlook from the campaign trail: Abortion narrowed the race, now Republicans are turning to 'three Cs' to seal their victory. At stake? Control of...