A major international security conference started Friday in Halifax with repeated reassurances that the results of the U.S. midterm elections won't mean a major shift in U.S. support for Ukraine. ...

It's a seismic development: A special counsel will conduct a criminal probe of Donald Trump while he runs for office. Meet Jack Smith, the prosecutor who will loom over his presidential run. ...

A U.S. federal judge on Friday sentenced disgraced Theranos founder and former CEO Elizabeth Holmes to 11 years and three months in federal prison.

Elon Musk showed up to his first day as the new owner of Twitter holding a sink. Barely three weeks later, the more apt analogy might have been a toilet, as the company has flushed away a good chunk o...

Attorney General Merrick Garland named Jack Smith as special counsel on Friday to oversee the Justice Department's investigation into the presence of classified documents at former U.S. president Dona...

The Biden administration says Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman's high office should shield him from a lawsuit over his alleged role in the killing of a U.S.-based journalist, marking a turnaroun...

Hundreds of Twitter employees are estimated to be leaving the beleaguered social media company following an ultimatum from new owner Elon Musk that staffers sign up for "long hours at high intensity,"...

Video clips showing a fire at the ancestral home in Iran of the Islamic Republic's late founder, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, have appeared on social media, with activists saying it was torched by pro...

Investigators have found traces of explosives at the site of the damaged Nord Stream gas pipelines, confirming sabotage had taken place, a Swedish prosecutor said on Friday.

Scientists meeting in France have expanded the world's measuring unit systems to incorporate some bold new, tongue-twisting prefixes on the gigantic and even the minuscule scale.

Leaders of the United States, South Korea, Japan and allied countries convened an emergency meeting during an Asian summit on Friday and condemned North Korea's firing of a suspected intercontinen...

Canada's only World Cup appearance in 1986 finished with zero goals scored and three losses in three games. But head coach John Herdman tells Soccer North that 2022 is a huge opportunity for the men's...

It’s been nearly two weeks since Canada’s team of negotiators arrived in Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt, for COP27, the UN climate change conference. Now, as delegates enter the final stretch of negotiati...

WNBA star Brittney Griner has begun serving her nine-year sentence for drug possession at a Russian penal colony, her lawyers and agent said Thursday.

The family of imprisoned Egyptian activist Alaa Abdel-Fattah said they were allowed into the prison and saw him on Thursday and that his condition has "deteriorated severely" following a dramatic hung...

Nancy Pelosi, the first and only woman to serve as U.S. House Speaker, announced Thursday that she will step down from an active leadership role in her party.

Starbucks workers at more than 100 U.S. stores are on strike Thursday in their largest labour action since a campaign to unionize the company's stores began late last year.