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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.

Ariana Grande is suing the hackers who she claims have been stealing and selling her unreleased music, photos and footage for years. The singer filed a lawsuit in California state court on Monday, obtained by CBC News, alleging a yearslong hacking campaign against close collaborators and others with access to her unreleased material.

French authorities ordered nearly 4,000 people evacuated Tuesday from tourist sites on the Atlantic coast as returning heat threatened firefighters' fragile hold on a vast wildfire west of Bordeaux.

The Trump administration is increasingly conflating communism and the political left, casting them as threats to national security. Many are calling these tactics familiar. Is the United States entering a new 'Red Scare'?

A major earthquake hit Japan's southern Kyushu island on Tuesday, knocking out power to thousands of homes, rupturing roads and leaving some trapped and others presumed dead inside a partially collapsed shopping mall.

A judge ruled Monday that there is enough evidence to put D4vd on trial in the killing and dismemberment of 14-year-old Celeste Rivas Hernandez, who authorities said had threatened to expose their relationship and crater the indie-pop singer's rising career just a few days before his debut album dropped.

Public Safety Minister Gary Anandasangaree is committing to "get to the bottom" of the arrest of a Canadian in Europe on spying charges. The suspect, who was not named in the office's statement, worked as an intern at NATO in Mons, Belgium.

A year after a nine-year-old girl from Montreal was found dead near a swamp in Upstate New York, local resident Bridgette Cruz says new road signs are keeping her memory alive.

Sony Pictures Entertainment has announced plans to restore L.A.'s iconic Cinerama Dome to its former glory and reopen it in early 2028 - just as movie theatres show signs of emerging from a years-long decline in ticket sales.

Police now say there were at least three suspects involved in a food festival shooting near Seattle's Space Needle over the weekend, and that one of them was among those killed in the violence.

In early publicity for his recently released The Odyssey, Christopher Nolan cited Emily Wilson's opening line in her translation of The Odyssey as a reference point for main character Odysseus. But Wilson's feelings about Nolan's take appear more mixed.

The 41-year-old pop star criticized the Trump administration on social media over the weekend for using one of her songs in a TikTok video.

Bill Oddie, a British comic actor who had a second career as a bird expert and wildlife presenter, died on Saturday, his agent said. He was 85.

Carly Simon says she's finally ready to speak out about why she's gone quiet in recent years. The singer who shot to fame in the 1970s with a string of hits that included You're So Vain has revealed she's been diagnosed with Parkinson's disease, while quietly battling basal cell carcinoma, a form of skin cancer.

Fire crews and planes are wrestling to bring a monster wildfire in southwest France under control before a forecast jump in temperatures complicates the firefighting effort.

Saudi Arabia, Jordan and Iraq reported drone attacks on Monday, two days after the United States abruptly suspended a two-week campaign of airstrikes against Iran, as Tehran appeared to put U.S. President Donald Trump's latest strategic U-turn to the test.

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz vowed on Monday to take action in response to the fatal vehicle ramming attack on the Berlin Pride celebration over the weekend, with questions being asked as to why the suspected driver hadn't been in prison.

Police arrested one suspect and were looking for another after gunfire erupted at a crowded food festival beneath Seattle's Space Needle, leaving three people dead and four others injured, including a toddler.

The U.S. paused its attacks on Iran for a second straight day on Sunday, and Tehran said it had done so, too, as efforts continued to bring the countries back to negotiations on an interim ceasefire deal largely undermined by recent exchanges of fire.

Members of Berlin's 2SLGBTQ+ community and others voiced grief, anger and solidarity on Sunday after a vehicle rammed into crowds at the city's annual Christopher Street Day Pride celebrations, killing one person and injuring 29.

Tadej Pogacar won a record-equaling fifth Tour de France title on Sunday. The 27-year-old Slovenian dominated this year's race to join Belgian Eddy Merckx, Spaniard Miguel Indurain and Frenchmen Jacques Anquetil and Bernard Hinault as the only riders to win five Tours.

Two mosques in the Israeli-occupied West Bank were set on fire overnight in an apparent Israeli settler attack, officials said Sunday, after a spate of deadly violence that killed four Palestinians and two Israeli soldiers.

A raging wildfire in southwest France forced the evacuation of 55,000 people overnight Sunday, bringing the total forced out of their homes to a staggering 220,000 in one region alone as flames crept ever closer to the wine region city of Bordeaux.

The suspect in the deadly Berlin Pride attack that left one person dead and 29 injured was shot and killed by police during a confrontation on Sunday in a suburb of Germany's capital city, authorities said.

Typhoon Noul made landfall early Sunday, bringing winds and heavy rain to southern China, including Hong Kong.

It's a sweet discovery that has the science world talking - and may help us better understand the origins of life on Earth.

Prince George is at a point of major transition in his life, as the eldest child of the Prince and Princess of Wales sets off for boarding school in September and public interest grows in the second in line to the throne.

German authorities on Sunday issued a wanted notice for a fugitive suspect in a van ramming near Berlin's Pride festival that left one person dead and injured at least 16 others.

Health workers at an Ebola treatment centre in eastern Congo went on strike on Saturday, demanding their pay. The walkout disrupted care for patients in the epicentre of the country's rapidly growing outbreak.

Israel's military says it detained more than 70 suspects across the occupied West Bank overnight and on Saturday, a day after troops deployed across the territory following violence that left four Palestinian villagers and two Israeli soldiers dead.

Supporters of the International Criminal Court work to chart a course forward a day after the global institution was plunged into uncharted territory following the ouster Friday of its chief prosecutor over sexual misconduct allegations.

Yemen's Houthi rebels said on Saturday they fired missiles and drones on Saudi Arabia in response to Saudi airstrikes on the strategic Red Sea city of Hodeida.

The death of a man reported by Manises municipality in Spain comes as wildfires also raging in France have displaced more than 250,000 people.

India's education minister resigned on Saturday, handing a major victory to youth protesters who had demanded he quit to take responsibility for examination paper leaks and erupted in celebration on news of his departure.

Typhoon Noul is bringing winds and heavy rain to southern China and Hong Kong over the weekend, with the region on high alert and dozens of flights cancelled.

Hockey-player-turned-Ukrainian-soldier Oleksandr Matviychuk is recovering after nearly being killed while on a military mission last year. Plastic surgeons have spent the past year reconstructing his face, one painful surgery at a time.

For nearly a week now, Ukraine has repeatedly attacked huge warehouses belonging to Wildberries, the massive online retailer often referred to as the Amazon of Russia. The drone attacks have destroyed billions of dollars worth of goods.

U.S. President Donald Trump returned to making tariff-related threats against Canada on Friday afternoon, restating his intent to impose tariffs in retaliation for wildfire smoke drifting across the border into the United States.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are widening their investigation into a cyclosporiasis outbreak linked to shredded iceberg lettuce from central Mexico after identifying cases in four additional states.

The number of measles cases in the U.S. this year has already surpassed the record-breaking tally for all of 2025.

Four Palestinians and two Israeli soldiers were killed near a Palestinian village on Friday in a confrontation that added to a growing toll over recent weeks as Israeli settler violence has intensified against Palestinians in the occupied West Bank.

The U.S. military said Friday that it fired on another merchant vessel that was trying to breach its blockade of Iranian ports, while Iran targeted American strongholds around the Persian Gulf.

British Prime Minister Andy Burnham will on Friday open a new government base in Manchester dubbed "No. 10 North" in a nod to his 10 Downing Street office in London, as he seeks to shift economic decision-making away from the capital.