Despite hundreds of public comments opposing a giant space mirror that would shine light roughly five kilometres wide, the U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC), has given it the green light. What could this mean for Canadians?

A CBC News investigation has identified the Canadian woman arrested last week in Belgium on espionage charges as Biwei Zhang, a systems engineer whose resume suggests she has previously worked for the Canadian Space Agency and Statistics Canada. Iden...

The U.S. military said Wednesday that it launched strikes on Iranian targets in response to Tehran's attack on American forces in the Middle East. The latest barrage came after the U.S. partnered with Saudi Arabia to strike Iran-backed militias in n...

In Le Temple, a typically quiet country road lined on one side with with corn crops and the other, tight rows of pine forest, turned into a buzzing firefighting base Wednesday afternoon.

Dr. Anthony Fauci on Wednesday invoked the Fifth Amendment and declined to answer questions from senators in a Republican-led committee hearing about his handling of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Canadian film financier Jason Cloth is facing fraud charges in Illinois, where he's accused of defrauding clients out of more than $100 million US.

Oscar-winning actor and Thirty Seconds to Mars frontman Jared Leto is facing allegations of criminal sexual conduct, with four women telling BBC in a new documentary that the offences took place when they were teenagers. In a statement released to mu...

Scientists say climate change is driving the extraordinary fire conditions gripping western Europe, but that the scale of those fires cannot be understood without looking at how humans drastically changed part of the landscape 200 years ago.

The U.S. Federal Communications Commission is banning imports of new foreign-made humanoid robots and power inverters, citing national security risks, in a move that targets China.

In August 1973, Allison Spencer's mom sent her and her kid sister to the beach in Ocean City, N.J., with a mission: Write a message in a bottle, and cast it off to sea. Fifty-three years later, that letter has found its way back to her.

Emily Simmons, a Canadian pastry chef living in Bordeaux in southwestern France, says heavy smoke from nearby wildfires forced her to leave the city for a few days this past week. High temperatures and wind on Wednesday threatened to fuel further fla...

Canada is once again in Donald Trump’s crosshairs. From wildfire smoke to tariffs, tensions with the U.S. are heating up. Washington correspondents Willy Lowry, Katie Simpson and guest host Mike Crawley unpack why — and what comes next.

San Jose Sharks superstar Macklin Celebrini signed a five-year, $94 million extension Wednesday that will make him the highest-paid player in the NHL.

A new climate study suggests centuries of drought added pressure to the Bronze Age societies that inspired Homer's The Odyssey, revealing how environmental stress, food insecurity and failing trade networks may have shaped a world of collapse and sur...

The seven members of the group BTS dropped a joint statement on Instagram sharing the news that they won't be submitting any music for the next Grammy Awards.

A huge fire in southwest France has generated the country's first recorded pyrocumulonimbus fire cloud, which are far more common in Canada. Here's why these clouds are special, how they form and how they make wildfires worse.

The Israeli government has told CBC News that it requested permission for wanted Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to overfly Newfoundland and Nova Scotia on Monday en route to a meeting with U.S. President Donald Trump. Canadian officials ar...

Grammy-nominated singer-songwriter and quarterback for the NFL Los Angeles Chargers announced their engagement on social media on Tuesday after just under a year of dating. Friends and fans are pouring in their support for the happy couple.

Soldiers and emergency workers combed through a badly damaged shopping mall and collapsed houses looking for trapped survivors on Wednesday after a powerful earthquake that killed at least 23 people and left many missing in southwestern Japan.

Funding has always been a challenge for Dan Blumstein's long-term study of yellow-bellied marmots, even more so since the Trump administration started defunding some environmental research. So he and his team are posting videos of the loaf-like roden...