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Megan Thee Stallion was rushed to the hospital after "feeling very ill" while onstage on Broadway in Moulin Rouge! The Musical. She later took to social media to explain she had been "pushing myself past my limits lately."

Supreme Court justices, with Donald Trump breaking historical precedent by attending oral arguments, tackled the legality of his executive order to restrict birthright citizenship in the U.S., a contentious part of his administration's immigration approach.

Singer and dancer Maren Wade says in the trademark infringement lawsuit filed in federal court in California on Monday that the glittery branding of Swift's 2025 album comes too close to the aesthetic of her own Confessions of a Showgirl.

Ever since becoming leader in 2011, North Korean Leader Kim Jong-un has made his nuclear weapons program a national goal - almost a doctrine - arguing it is the only way for smaller powers to keep from being "mercilessly violated" by superpowers.

Stocks are climbing worldwide, and oil prices are easing Wednesday as hopes build that the war with Iran could end soon.

U.S. President Donald Trump said Wednesday that Iran's president wants a ceasefire in the Mideast war, a claim Tehran quickly denied.

The Supreme Court today will hear arguments on President Donald Trump's consequential first-day executive order in 2025, a case that could upend a long-held understanding on who is considered a U.S. citizen.

Nuclear weapons experts who were involved in U.S. efforts to sanction and contain Iran say the decision to attack the country is more likely to restart its nuclear program than dismantle it. A regime that previously believed that pausing at a "threshold" stage of 60 per cent enrichment would protect it from attack has learned that is not the case.

Canada's finance minister Francois-Philippe Champagne is in China to continue diversifying trading partners and strengthen the economy. This visit follows that of Prime Minister Mark Carney earlier this year as U.S. President Donald Trump's trade war has driven more and more countries to turn toward China, the world's second-largest economy.

President Donald Trump has been pressuring U.S. oil and gas executives to invest in Venezuela's energy sector, nearly three months after the toppling of former president Nicolas Maduro, as the country is said to have the largest crude oil reserves in the world.

Armed men mounted further attacks Tuesday in Haiti's Artibonite region, a key agricultural area. The attacks came days after a gang's weekend assault in the area of Jean-Denis left some 70 people dead, according to human rights groups and local residents.

Provincial rules around alcohol and the federal government's "Buy Canadian" policy have been flagged in a new report citing several trade irritants between Canada and the U.S.

U.S. President Donald Trump says a U.S. takeover of one of Iran's most critical assets - Kharg Island - could happen very easily," but experts warn the reality is far more complicated. Andrew Chang breaks down why even a successful assault could lead to heavy losses and uncertain gains.Images provided by The Canadian Press, Adobe Stock, Reuters and Getty Images

Two sailboats carrying humanitarian aid from Mexico arrived safely in Havana on Saturday, Mexico's navy said, concluding a journey in which the vessels were delayed by bad weather and briefly reported missing.

A U.S. federal judge on Tuesday ordered the Trump administration to suspend its construction of a $400 million US ballroom on the site where it demolished the East Wing of the White House, barring construction work from proceeding without congressional approval.

Air traffic controller staffing at LaGuardia airport on the night an Air Canada jet collided with a fire truck may have violated the facility's procedures by combining roles before midnight, according to a document seen by Reuters.

A U.S. federal judge on Tuesday agreed to permanently block the Trump administration from implementing a presidential directive to end federal funding for National Public Radio and the Public Broadcasting Service.

The Trump administration has exempted oil and gas drilling in the Gulf of Mexico from the Endangered Species Act after U.S. Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth said environmentalists' lawsuits threatened to hobble domestic energy supplies as the U.S. wages war against Iran.

The U.S. Army pilots who hovered two helicopters near Kid Rock's Tennessee home during a training run while he clapped and saluted have had their suspension lifted, War Secretary Pete Hegseth said Tuesday.

The United States hit the central Iranian city of Isfahan early Tuesday, sending a massive fireball into the sky, and Tehran struck a fully loaded Kuwaiti oil tanker in the Persian Gulf.

As U.S. President Donald Trump considers ordering U.S. ground troops into Iran, military experts say trying to capture any of the most likely targets would pose a significant challenge.

Mountains that normally see their peak snowpack in March are brown this year, thanks to a spring heat dome that baked western U.S. for much of the second half of the month. That's raising alarm bells for the fire season that's already ramping up.

An armed man who crashed his pickup truck into a major Detroit-area synagogue earlier in March was inspired by the Iran-backed militant group Hezbollah and had sought to inflict as much damage as he could on Jewish people, the FBI said Monday.

NASA is holding a news conference at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Monday as the agency prepares for Wednesday's launch of the Artemis II mission. The first crewed lunar voyage in more than half a century will send a four-member crew, including Canadian astronaut Jeremy Hansen, on a 10-day journey around the moon and back.

At least 70 people were killed and 30 injured during an attack near Petite-Riviere in Haiti's Artibonite region, a human rights group said on Monday, numbers that were significantly higher than official estimates which put the death toll at around 16.

Kharg Island is Iran's key oil export hub and perhaps the most important location in the war that the U.S. and Israel launched on Iran on Feb. 28.

The bill's passage marked the culmination of a years-long push by Israel's far-right to escalate punishment for Palestinians convicted of nationalistic offenses against Israelis.

The United Nations Interim Force In Lebanon (UNIFIL) said three of its peacekeepers were killed in south Lebanon in less than 24 hours in separate incidents, as peace remains elusive amid a nearly month-long war between Israel and Hezbollah.

A humpback whale that was freed after becoming stuck for several days in shallow water at a Baltic Sea resort in Germany was stranded again on Saturday after failing to find its way back to the Atlantic Ocean.

Thieves made off with three paintings by Renoir, Cezanne and Matisse worth millions of euros from a museum near the city of Parma in northern Italy, police said on Monday.

Gunmen killed more than 70 people in South Sudan over a gold mining row on the outskirts of the capital over the weekend, a police spokesperson confirmed on Monday.

The U.S. oil blockade has pushed Cuba into a third month of energy crisis, deepening daily hardship in a country already strained by crumbling infrastructure. But amid the darkness, some Cubans still see hope for a better future.

A French-Palestinian member of the European Parliament says she was denied entry into Canada only days before she was scheduled to participate in conferences in Montreal. Rima Hassan wrote online that she was "prevented" from coming to Canada in what she described as an attempt at censorship.

North Korean leader Kim Jong-un observed a test of a high-thrust, solid-fuel engine and hailed it as a development to boost the country's strategic military capability, state media reported Sunday.

Armenia and Azerbaijan, both of which border Iran to its north, have seen their fair share of conflict. The current war around Iran has drawn in Arab Gulf states - and these two neighbours may not be able to avoid becoming involved, too.

The comment, captured on live air traffic control audio, has quickly become one of the most haunting elements of the crash that killed two Canadian pilots and injured dozens more. But aviation experts warn the remark risks oversimplifying what is potentially a more complex chain of failures.

Cuba appears to be tottering toward some kind of political transition. Some Cubans are concerned that the residents own nothing and are too impoverished to take over the few functioning businesses on the island, while there is a large and wealthy diaspora community (and potentially also foreign investors) who would be able to swoop in and buy property and businesses at bargain prices.

Following the deadly collision between an Air Canada jet and a fire truck on the runway at New York City's LaGuardia airport last week, concerns have been raised about whether there was adequate air traffic control staffing that night.

Seven years after India adopted legislation to protect transgender people, it has passed new amendments to scale back those rights.

The pro golfer was released on bail late Friday, hours after his Land Rover clipped a truck and rolled onto its side, leading to his arrest on suspicion of driving under the influence, officials said.

American lawmakers are demanding answers from the Trump administration after a Canadian man says U.S. customs officers held him for three hours and forced him to provide a DNA sample before sending him home.

A New Jersey man who planned to firebomb the home of a prominent Palestinian activist was arrested Thursday following a weeks-long undercover operation, according to a federal complaint and the New York City Police Department.

More than 3,100 events are being organized in communities large and small across all 50 states on Saturday in the latest No Kings protests, with demonstrations also planned internationally, including in Canada.

Savannah Guthrie will return soon as co-host of NBC's Today show after a nearly two-month absence sparked by the disappearance of her 84-year-old mother, saying in an interview that 'joy will be my protest.'

Mexico's navy said on Thursday it had activated a search-and-rescue operation in the Caribbean to locate two sailboats carrying humanitarian aid to Cuba after the vessels failed to arrive in Havana as scheduled.

A U.S. judge on Thursday dismissed X Corp.'s antitrust lawsuit that accused the World Federation of Advertisers and major companies including Mars, CVS Health and Colgate-Palmolive of illegally boycotting billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk's social media company.

Iran state media says its nuclear facilities were attacked Friday, just hours after Israel threatened to "escalate and expand" its campaign against Tehran.

OpenAI has decided to scrap Sora, its app that generated videos based on user prompts. The move reveals that the company, once the disruptor-in-chief of the AI world, is now facing something of an identity crisis as it struggles to pick a lane on the busy road to profitability.