Human rights organization Hengaw reported ​that 26-year-old Essam Soltani, arrested in connection with protests in the city of Karaj, was due to be executed on Wednesday.

A U.S. federal officer shot a man in the leg in Minneapolis after being attacked with a shovel and broom handle while trying to make an arrest Wednesday, federal officials said.

At a time when U.S. politics appears to be more deeply polarized than ever, you might think American voters would feel even more firmly attached to either the Republican or Democratic party. But new Gallup polling of more than 15,000 U.S. adults sug...

U.S. Senate Republicans blocked a resolution on Wednesday that would have barred U.S. President Donald Trump from further military action in Venezuela without authorization from Congress, after the Republican president pressured party members who had...

Violent clashes between ICE agents and protesters are escalating in Minneapolis, with a new video circulating of a woman being dragged from her car and hauled away by masked agents as she says she is an 'autistic disabled person' trying to get to the...

A top Danish official said Wednesday that a "fundamental disagreement" over Greenland remains with U.S. President Donald Trump after highly anticipated talks in Washington with U.S. Vice-President JD Vance and Secretary of State Marco Rubio.

CBC News was able to reach out to a few Iranians to hear their experience and perspective as the country remains cut off from the internet.

Wide-scale desertions and two million draft-dodgers are among a raft of challenges facing Ukraine's military as Russia presses on with its invasion of its full-scale neighbour after almost four years of fighting, the new defence minister said Wednesd...

Author MacKenzie Scott — a billionaire philanthropist whose fortune largely comes from her ex-husband, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos — has given the Trevor Project $45 million US ($62.2 million Cdn).

Emmy Award-winning actor Timothy Busfield was ordered held without bond at his first court appearance Wednesday, a day after he turned himself in to authorities to face charges of child sex abuse.

Renee Nicole Good's family is accusing U.S. federal immigration officers of killing the Minneapolis mother as she attempted to follow agents' instructions, and said Wednesday they have hired the same law firm that represented George Floyd's family to...

The Trump administration is weighing military intervention in Iran as the regime continues its bloody crackdown on protesters across the country. Andrew Chang explains why some experts believe the U.S. may try to exploit a window of opportunity to st...

Ukaleq Slettemark is used to the stress of competing on the world stage as she tries to qualify for the Milan-Cortina Winter Olympics. But the 25-year-old biathlete from Greenland is facing an extra level of anxiety as U.S. President Donald Trump kee...

U.S. President Donald Trump's special envoy, Steve Witkoff, on Wednesday announced the establishment of a technocratic Palestinian body that will play a role in administering the war-ravaged territory under a phased U.S. plan for Gaza's future.

U.S. President Donald Trump raised his middle finger and appeared to direct profanity toward a factory worker who expressed criticism of his handling of the Jeffrey Epstein controversy while touring a Michigan auto plant on Tuesday, video circulating...

“Give the champ a stamp”. That was the call from a board member at the Muhammad Ali Center, according to the legendary boxer’s widow, Lonnie Ali. To her, it only made sense, given her late husband once joked that he should be turned into a post...

Paul Hunter and Katie Simpson sit down with their colleagues to talk through the big stories in the U.S. capitol and ask the question: what does this mean for Canada?

The U.S. State Department said Wednesday it will suspend the processing of immigrant visas for citizens of 75 countries, including Afghanistan, Iran, Russia and Somalia, whose nationals the Trump administration has deemed likely to require public ass...

The United States is withdrawing some personnel from bases in the Middle East, a U.S. official said on Wednesday, after a senior Iranian official said Tehran had warned neighbours it would hit American bases if Washington strikes.