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Tulsi Gabbard resigned as U.S. President Donald Trump's director of national intelligence on Friday, saying she needed to step away as her husband battles cancer. She is the fourth cabinet official to depart during Trump's second term, all of them women.

Dr. Kent Brantly became critically ill with Ebola while on medical mission work during the 2014 outbreak. The U.S. physician survived, and is now watching with concern at the speed and spread of the current outbreak - which has no approved treatments or vaccines available.

Hundreds of people prosecuted for crimes related to the Jan. 6 assault on the U.S. Capitol in 2021 plan to seek compensation from the U.S. government once a new taxpayer-funded anti-weaponization program is up and running.

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday ordered his military to prepare options to retaliate against Ukraine after he accused Kyiv of carrying out a deadly drone attack on a student dorm that he said killed six and wounded dozens of young people, with 15 still unaccounted for.

The zeal of some Republican officials and activists to punish those who made disparaging comments about Charlie Kirk after his September killing is coming back to haunt them.

A Montreal activist released from Israeli custody after being detained along with hundreds of others on a Gaza-bound aid flotilla said he was beaten, abused for days and stabbed in the hand by a prison guard, as Ottawa calls for accountability over the mistreatment of its citizens.

U.S. President Donald Trump surprised NATO allies by pledging to send an additional 5,000 troops to Poland, only hours before the alliance's foreign ministers met in Sweden on Friday amid deep divisions over the Iran war.

The deadly Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo is concerning for a number of complicated factors, but there's no reason for Canadians to panic, say people who have worked in the region. The UN says there are 148 suspected deaths and nearly 600 suspected cases, with two cases including one death in neighbouring Uganda.

Ukraine has been recapturing some territory and in other areas are stalling Russian forces, but drones have made it much harder to determine just who controls what in the volatile grey zone.

U.S. President Donald Trump and his family members have earned at least $2 billion from business ventures and investments that have benefitted from his past 16 months in the White House, according to research by watchdog groups and media outlets.

Kamala Harris "wrote off rural America" during the 2024 presidential campaign and failed to attack Donald Trump with sufficient "negative firepower," according to a long-awaited post-election autopsy released Thursday by the Democratic National Committee (DNC) that did little to quell Democrats' concerns about the direction of their party.

Kyle Busch, a two-time Cup Series champion who won more races than anyone across NASCAR's three national series, has died at 41.

U.S. President Donald Trump and America's top diplomat on Thursday again raised the spectre of U.S. military intervention in Cuba, a renewed threat that takes on greater weight a day after the administration announced criminal charges against the island's former leader, Raul Castro.

Gunmen opened fire in two separate attacks Thursday on the Honduran coast, killing at least 25 people, including six police officers, police said.

The Walt Disney Company is facing a class-action lawsuit over a recently introduced use of facial recognition technology at its Disneyland theme park entrances.

The United Nations General Assembly on Wednesday voted 141-8 to adopt a resolution backing a world court opinion that countries have a legal obligation to address climate change, with the world's biggest historical emitter the United States among those opposing it.

The International Court of Justice issued on Thursday a landmark advisory opinion that potentially enshrines the right to strike in labour standards and international trade agreements.

Mourners gathered in a southern Lebanese town on Thursday to bury victims from an Israeli airstrike earlier this week that killed 14 people, the deadliest single bombing raid on Lebanon since the announcement of a tenuous ceasefire last month.

The family of a Brampton, Ont. teen are devastated and looking for answers after he was found dead near a remote Saskatchewan community, a Toronto advocate says.

Opponents of President Donald Trump's sweeping legal settlement with the U.S. Internal Revenue Service will face high hurdles in challenging its $1.776-billion US fund for victims of alleged political "weaponization" and its provision barring audits of his taxes, according to legal experts.

Documents show Queen Elizabeth was "very keen" that Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, the former prince, be given the job of U.K. trade envoy, as the U.K. government on Thursday released the confidential papers related to his appointment in 2001, which later proved controversial due to his links to American sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

Gaza activists who were detained by Israel, and later pinned to the ground to the taunts of the country's far-right police minister, have been released from prison and sent home.

Washington's decision to suspend a symbolic Cold War-era defence body may have been meant to pressure Canada on military policy. Instead, experts say it risks reinforcing Canadians' distrust of the United States, complicates the politics of NORAD and missile defence, and makes future purchases of American military equipment even harder for Ottawa to sell domestically.

U.S. President Donald Trump is celebrating back-to-back victories in his push to oust his critics from the Republican Party. But there are clear signs that his revenge campaign could backfire.

Former Cuban president Raul Castro will be "keeping his head down," experts say, as questions swirl over whether the U.S. plans to take him by force and bring him to American soil to face charges over an incident from three decades ago. Federal prosecutors announced criminal charges against Castro Wednesday in the 1996 downing of two small planes flown by Miami-based exile group Brothers to the Rescue.

London's Metropolitan Police are trying to crack down on sophisticated criminal networks that are snatching phones off the streets of London and exporting them in bulk to China.

An Air France flight from Paris to Detroit was diverted to Montreal Wednesday night after United States authorities barred it from entering the U.S., citing new restrictions for people who who have recently travelled to three East Africa countries, where a deadly Ebola outbreak has taken hold.

SpaceX took the wraps off its IPO filing on Wednesday, opening the books of the company that has already revolutionized rocket technology, with even larger ambitions to colonize Mars and build AI data centres in space.

As health officials scramble to respond to a virus that has spread undetected for weeks, or possibly months, people in Congo are gripped with fear.

The Trump administration set up a roughly $1.8 billion US fund to support Americans facing domestic political persecution - but there are questions about accountability and who may benefit most from the cash. Andrew Chang explains how the 'anti-weaponization' fund originates with U.S. President Donald Trump's own lawsuit, and the concerns about a conflict of interest.(Photo credits: The Canadian Press, Reuters, Adobe Stock and Getty Images)

Ukraine will send reinforcements to its northern regions and step up diplomatic pressure on Belarus to counter what Kyiv believes are Russian plans to launch a new offensive north of the capital, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said.

Multiple counties in California have issued evacuation orders and warnings after several new wildfires ignited. This came as fire crews battled the Sandy Fire in Simi Valley. Fire officials said they anticipate strong winds and increased fire activity.

Everyone's favourite long-running medical drama, Grey's Anatomy is getting a spinoff - and this time, it'll be set in the dusty, rugged terrain of cowboy country. The show's broadcaster, ABC, announced it has greenlit the currently untitled series which is expected to premiere to audiences during the 2026-2027 broadcast season.

U.S. Immigration and Customs and Enforcement is holding about 60,000 people in detention centres, the vast majority without criminal convictions. Advocates say ICE detention is being used as a tool to bully people into leaving the country.

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney called Israel's treatment of detained Gaza flotilla activists "abominable," adding that Israel's ambassador will be summoned to Ottawa, after National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir shared a video taunting them.

Russian President Vladimir Putin praised his close ties with Chinese leader Xi Jinping and said their countries are partners in trade and international affairs as they opened bilateral talks Wednesday on his trip to Beijing.

U.S. President Donald Trump scored another win Tuesday against a Republican rival, dislodging Rep. Thomas Massie in Kentucky's primary and knocking out one of his most outspoken critics on Capitol Hill.

As U.S. President Donald Trump appears poised to announce criminal charges against 94-year-old former Cuban president Raul Castro, analysts say it's likely a symbolic move designed to increase psychological pressure on the small island nation. They don't rule out, however, that it could be a pretext for violence.

Argentine investigators searching for the source of a deadly hantavirus outbreak on a cruise that set sail last month were trapping rodents in the forests surrounding the southernmost city of Ushuaia on Tuesday, with the aim of detecting the possible presence of the virus in an area previously thought unaffected.

The head of Oceanwide Expeditions says the information gathered to date about a deadly cluster of hantavirus cases "strongly" suggests the outbreak that hit his company's cruise ship did not originate on the vessel itself.

While Canada is monitoring a severe Ebola outbreak in Congo and Uganda, the federal health authority says it is not implementing a travel ban or actively testing travellers.

The company says it stopped the dissolution plan after consultations with its advisers, stakeholders and relevant governmental authorities, reversing a decision it announced last week as the U.S. expands sanctions on the country.

U.S. Vice-President JD Vance said he thinks Iran 'wants' to make a deal with the U.S., but he would not say 'with confidence' that the two sides would come to a deal until a negotiated settlement is being signed.

Three female contestants from the matchmaking reality show Married at First Sight UK have come forward with allegations that they were sexually assaulted by their on-screen partners.

The teenagers who killed three people at a San Diego mosque met online and shared a "broad hatred" toward different religions and races, U.S. authorities said Tuesday.

A Jackson Pollock artwork highlighting the artist's famed painted swoops, swirls, pours and drizzles soared to an eye-popping sales record at a New York auction Monday evening, fetching $181.2 million US.

Israeli forces opened fire on at least two vessels in an aid flotilla sailing towards Gaza on Tuesday, according to video footage and flotilla organizers. But Israel said no live ammunition was used and there were no casualties.

The vehicles will draw on partnerships to keep costs down and speed up development, according to the international automaker.

Two-time Wimbledon champion Carlos Alcaraz on Tuesday said he is pulling out of the grass-court Grand Slam event next month because of his lingering wrist injury.