The upcoming midterm elections are a crucial test for U.S. President Donald Trump and the party he's dominated for the past decade — and early data points suggest it could be something of a bloodbath for the Republicans come November.

Bryan Seaver, Dolly Parton’s nephew and longtime head of security, is embroiled in a nasty and very public legal battle with the company managing her estate.

France has been thrown into crisis as student-led protests erupted across the nation, calling for better conditions for learning and for the government to address a decade-long staffing shortage. Here's a look at what we know so far about the protest...

The woman who says several men raped her at a Cornell University fraternity party was "misled" about the status of the criminal investigation in the weeks after she went to police, her lawyer said Wednesday.

The former U.S. army officer convicted of killing 13 people in the 2009 shooting rampage at Fort Hood, Texas, is scheduled to be executed by firing squad in December in what would be the first U.S. military execution in more than 65 years.

The federal government has withdrawn sponsorship of a European disinformation conference that includes panels discussing the U.S. government as a foreign interference risk.

Tropical Storm Isaias formed Wednesday in the warm waters off eastern Mexico and forecasters predicted it will quickly strengthen into the first hurricane of the Atlantic season before striking the U.S. Gulf Coast later in the week.

A top official with the World Health Organization said Wednesday the UN health agency doesn't know how a lab worker in Siberia died amid concerns about plague, and is urging Russia to provide more information.

As Israelis and Palestinians mark the sombre anniversary of the Oct. 7, 2023, attack that began the three-year war between Israel and Hamas, people in Gaza are also starting to look to the future. CBC News spoke with six people in Gaza to ask them ho...

The Republican candidate in a pitched battle for Michigan's open Senate seat is calling on U.S. President Donald Trump to end the trade war with Canada.

Israelis gathered on Wednesday to commemorate the Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas-led attacks that killed 1,200 people, saw 251 taken hostage and sparked a devastating war in Gaza that has left much of the territory in ruins and its two million people living in ...

NASA has released a striking image of dawn on the Martian surface taken by its Curiosity rover, showing sunlight bathing ‌jagged crags formed billions of years ago as the car-sized vehicle continues to explore Earth's planetary neighbour.

Olivia Rodrigo’s inaugural festival, Daisy Chain Fields, won praise for its all-woman lineup and charitable focus on reproductive rights and fighting gender-based violence. But although some vendors raved about the experience, two vendors are alleg...

Russian missiles and drones pounded Kyiv and a dozen other Ukrainian regions overnight into Wednesday, killing at least 25 civilians, including five children, and wounding around 100 in Moscow's latest devastating barrage, Ukrainian officials said.

More than 200,000 people have been displaced across Yemen as fighting between Houthi rebels and Saudi-backed government forces has intensified in recent weeks, the United Nations's migration agency says.

The families of thousands of people who remain missing in Nepal weeks after catastrophic floods devastated the country have expressed mixed feelings after the government said this week that it is stopping the search for victims.

Henri B. Kagan and Kenso Soai won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry on Wednesday for their discovery of non-linear effects and autocatalysis in asymmetric organic synthesis.

The Weston family holding company Wittington Investments said Wednesday that it will purchase the U.K. chain Boots for $8.9 billion US, including debt, from private equity firm Sycamore Partners. Boots is one of Britain's most prominent retailers.