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The U.S. Justice Department moved Friday to dismiss a criminal case charging a former Olympian with deliberately damaging the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool.

Current estimates are some 60,000 people crossed into the Spanish enclave in North Africa on Thursday - and by Friday, that an estimated 48,300 had returned to Morocco. Here's what we know.

North Korea has continuously deployed a network of remote IT workers to defraud businesses and transfer revenues toward the proliferation of nuclear weapons, says a statement by Global Affairs Canada and its counterparts in nine other countries.

Rescuers searching for 10 climbers missing after an avalanche on Pakistan's Broad Peak located four bodies on Friday and were continuing to search for the other six despite adverse weather that hampered helicopter flights, officials said.

The death toll from a powerful earthquake in southwestern Japan rose to 34, the Kumamoto prefectural government said Friday, as rescuers raced in last-ditch efforts to find survivors after the quake triggered a mall explosion, toppled a factory chimney, and flattened homes across the region.

U.S. President Donald Trump said on Friday a deal he announced to bring peace to Gaza was "a great breakthrough" despite signs from both Hamas and Israel that significant hurdles remained before a deal can be implemented.

Spain and Morocco reinforced the border fence of a Spanish enclave on Friday and appeared to have largely halted mass crossings after tens of thousands of people arrived by sea and land in a day.

It started earlier this month, when Indiana Fever sharpshooter Sophie Cunningham ignited an online firestorm after an ESPN profile quoted her voicing support for barring transgender girls and women from women's sports.

Less than two weeks since the conclusion of the FIFA World Cup 2026, soccer is once again front-page news thanks to a new private-investment proposal by FIFA president Gianni Infantino that's triggered significant backlash. Here's what you need to know.

U.S. President Donald Trump said talks in Cairo between mediators and Hamas leaders on Thursday have led to a phased disarmament agreement in Gaza, but a Hamas official described the deal as a draft and U.S. officials said Israel was skeptical the militant Palestinian group would surrender its weapons.

Spain will deploy its military to restore order at its border with Morocco in Ceuta after thousands of migrants streamed into the tiny Spanish territory.

A man who gave his son the gun he used to kill two students and two teachers at Apalachee High School in Georgia was sentenced Thursday to 15 years in prison.

English golf star Charley Hull might have thought she nailed a prank on her longtime caddie, Adam Woodward - but according to many fans on social media, it was more of a swing and a miss.

The fastest-growing Ebola outbreak has killed more than 1,500 people in eastern Congo, official data released on Thursday showed, marking a 50 per cent increase in around a week that shows the emergency continuing to outpace response efforts.

The book published in 1858 was returned to the library in the seaside town of Kiama last week by a man who had found it during recent home renovations inside a tea crate bricked into a sealed fireplace.

The Justice Department used the Secret Service and FBI to go to extraordinary lengths to bolster its contentious case against former FBI director James Comey, his lawyers claim, including allegedly interviewing Sammy (The Bull) Gravano, the Mafia underboss who in the past admitted to participating in 19 killings.

While at a rally at a GM factory, he said car companies are thriving due to tariffs and other key policies he's instituted as president.

A Russian ballistic missile and drone barrage across Ukraine overnight into Thursday killed at least eight civilians, including children, and wounded more than 50 others, officials said.

An Iranian strike hit a Chinese firm's building in northern Kuwait on Thursday morning, severely damaging the structure and killing a worker, Kuwait's military said, hours after Jordan's air defences shot down five missiles launched from Iran.

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. Identifying information from Zhang's social media profiles, graduate thesis and a federal court case matched Belgian authorities' description of the NATO intern apprehended on Friday.

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.

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.

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.

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 multiple outlets on Wednesday, Leto says the claims made in the documentary are "absolutely and categorically false."

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 flare-ups.

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.

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.

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.

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 rodents on OnlyFans and asking for tips.

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.

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.

Iran launched a barrage of missiles at American forces in the Middle East early Wednesday as the U.S. partnered with Saudi Arabia to strike Tehran-backed militias in neighbouring Iraq, killing at least 20 fighters.

Dr. Anthony Fauci has testified in Congress more than 20 times since COVID-19 was discovered in China, but Wednesday's appearance occurs before a panel led by his chief Republican antagonist, who would like to see him criminally prosecuted.

Russia's main domestic security agency said Wednesday that Pavel Durov, founder and owner of the messaging app Telegram, has been charged with aiding terrorism and put on an international wanted list.

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 18 people and left many missing in southwestern Japan.

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 are again refusing to comment on how Netanyahu was able to enter and leave Canadian airspace, or whether they gave him permission.

This video of a Costco in Japan has gone viral after a major earthquake hit the country's southern Kyushu island. Here's how we verified the video.

Iran launched multiple ballistic missiles at American forces in the Middle East on Tuesday, shattering a brief pause in fighting as mediators tried to get both sides back to negotiations and toward a ceasefire, the U.S. military said.

Legend has it the last time County Mayo won the Gaelic Football All-Ireland in 1951, an angry priest cursed the team to never win another championship so long as they lived. But on Sunday - five years after the 1951 team's last surviving member died - Mayo beat Kerry to claim the Sam Maguire Cup for the first time in 75 years.

A massive wildfire in southwestern France has left parts of the town of Biscarrosse in ruins, with drone footage from Tuesday revealing burnt homes and forest. Fires across France have forced the unprecedented evacuation of tens of thousands of people.

U.S. President Donald Trump met separately with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as the wars in Ukraine and the Middle East continue to test U.S. diplomacy. Zelenskyy hopes to revive diplomatic efforts with Russia, while Trump's talks with Netanyahu come amid differences over Iran.

Police Chief Shon Barnes told a news conference that the weapon was a 9 mm gun from Polymer80 - a now-defunct company that was once a leading manufacturer of ghost gun parts.

A Canadian intern accused of spying at NATO's military headquarters in Belgium has been denied bail and will remain in custody. Belgian prosecutors allege she spied for a third country and was part of a criminal organization.

France is bracing for its fourth major heat wave of the year on Tuesday, as soaring temperatures and tinder-dry conditions across the nation's southwest put pressure on crews battling the giant wildfire in the Bordeaux region.

It appears the White House isn't done with Katy Perry.

FIFA president Gianni Infantino's plan to create a $20 billion US company running the World Cup with private investors including the Kushner family was announced Tuesday - and immediately attacked by European soccer body UEFA.

The daughter of Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes has legally dropped her father's last name. She is registered to vote in Pennsylvania as Suri Noelle, according to public documents obtained by CBC News.