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Journalist Don Lemon was released from custody Friday after he was arrested and hit with federal civil rights charges over his coverage of an anti-immigration enforcement protest that disrupted a service at a Minnesota church.

Israel will reopen the Rafah border crossing on Sunday for people to travel betweenGazaand Egypt, a government agency said, the first opening of effectively the sole route in or out of the Palestinian territory since May 2024.

Lindsey Vonn crashed in her final downhill race before the Winter Olympics on Friday and was airlifted from the course for medical checks, a troubling turn for the 41-year-old U.S. ski star just a week before the Milano-Cortina Games.

U.S. President Donald Trump said Friday that he will nominate former Federal Reserve official Kevin Warsh to be the next chair of the Fed, a decision likely to result in sharp changes to the powerful agency that could bring it closer to the White House.

Canada or the U.S. have won every world championship and Olympic title. But these European teams are looking to shake up the podium at Milano Cortina 2026.

A unit of ICE will be in Italy to work during the upcoming Winter Games. Yes, that ICE. Who exactly will be there and what will they be doing?

A former Minnesota governor recently pitched a novel solution to the state's clashes with the Trump administration: join Canada. He's not the first, nor only, one in the state looking north.

Budapest Mayor Gergely Karacsony remains defiant after being criminally charged for his role in organizing his city's Pride parade last summer in defiance of Hungary's anti-2SLBGTQ+ laws.

The bodies of 15 more unidentified Palestinians were handed over by Israel Thursday, in the final exchange of prisoners and detainees between Israel and Hamas.

India has confirmed two cases of the deadly Nipah virus. Here are answers on what the infection is and what happened in previous outbreaks in Asian countries.

Democrats and the White House struck a deal Thursday to avert a partial government shutdown and temporarily fund the U.S. Department of Homeland Security as they consider new restrictions for Donald Trump's surge of immigration enforcement.

A Vancouver-based mining company says 10 of its employees were abducted from one of its project sites in the city of Concordia in the western Mexican state of Sinaloa, which has been gripped by a cartel civil war since 2024.

U.S. border czar Tom Homan, newly installed as commander of President Donald Trump's immigration enforcement surge in Minneapolis, promised targeted and strategic enforcements focusing on unauthorized residents with a criminal history.

The FBI on Wednesday searched the election office of a Georgia county that has been central to right-wing conspiracy theories over U.S. President Donald Trump's 2020 election loss, acting just one week after the Republican leader predicted prosecutions over a contest he has baselessly insisted was tainted by widespread fraud.

Canada's Gabriela Dabrowski and Brazil's Luisa Stefani fell 7-6 (2), 3-6, 6-4 to Kazakhstan's Anna Danilina and Serbia's Aleksandra Krunic in the women's doubles semifinals at the Australian Open on Thursday in Melbourne.

Longtime fugitive Ryan Wedding sought a court order to prevent his arrest in Mexico's Sinaloa state nearly a year before he was finally taken into U.S. custody last week, according to Mexican legal records obtained by CBC News. The documents suggest the Canadian, who is accused of leading a cocaine-smuggling network linked to the Sinaloa cartel, believed Mexican authorities were closing in on him in early 2025.

A gigantic warehouse across the street from an outdoor equipment store has become a flashpoint in Virginia as the U.S. grapples with the Trump administration's immigration crackdown - and a British Columbia company has been pulled into the fray.

Two U.S. Democratic Representatives visited a five-year-old Ecuadorian boy and his father at a Texas federal detention centre Wednesday, in a case that has stirred anger over the Trump administration's immigration crackdown and given fuel to Democrats and others pushing back against the actions of ICE.

For Palestinians in Gaza, the Rafah border crossing to Egypt is their gateway to the world. But since Israel seized it in May 2024, it has been largely shut. Now Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says the crossing will reopen soon, as the U.S.-brokered Israel-Hamas ceasefire plan moves into its second phase.

A small plane crashed Wednesday in a rural area of Norte de Santander province in northeast Colombia, killing all 15 people on board including a member of congress, authorities said.

The U.S. government has said, without providing evidence, that the men killed on the boats were narco-terrorists." But Chad Joseph's and Rishi Samroo's families say they were just regular workers catching a ride home to the fishing village of Las Cuevas.

Iranian officials reached out to the wider Middle East on Wednesday over the threat of a possible U.S. military strike on the country, while the value of Iran's currency reached a new low a month since the start of protests that soon spread nationwide and sparked a bloody crackdown.

Bruce Springsteen is dedicating his new song to the people of Minneapolis, criticizing U.S. President Donald Trump's ongoing immigration enforcement operations in the city.

Andrew Chang explains why the U.S. is sending Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents to Italy for the Milano-Cortina Olympics amid outrage over ICE operations in Minnesota.Images provided by The Canadian Press, Reuters and Getty Images

Two federal agents who were involved in Saturday's fatal shooting of a U.S. citizen in Minneapolis have been placed on administrative leave, according to a U.S. Customs and Border Protection spokesperson.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio told the U.S. Senate on Wednesday that Venezuela's new leaders were moving toward closer ties with Washington without the immediate need for further U.S. military action, as he publicly faced questions from many of his former colleagues for the first time.

A court has ordered the Dutch government to draw up a plan to protect residents on the tiny Caribbean island of Bonaire from the devastating effects of climate change - a sweeping victory for the islanders.

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents will engage in a security role protecting the American delegation at the Milano-Cortina Olympics in February, according to the U.S. embassy in Italy. Agents will not carry out immigration enforcement duties while abroad, a source at the embassy said.

The fatal shootings of two Minnesota residents by federal government agents have put the focus on the immigration blitz on the streets of Minneapolis, but on Monday a judge raised a skeptical eye toward the Trump administration's overall pressure campaign on the state.

A formerFrenchsenatorwas found guilty by a Paris court late on Tuesday of having spiked a lawmaker'sdrink with ecstasywith the intention of sexually assaulting her.

The Kremlin is denying a report that Russia suffered the largest number of casualties recorded for any major power in any conflict since the Second World War.

Amazon is slashing about 16,000 corporate jobs in the second round of mass layoffs for the e-commerce company in three months.

A South Korean court sentenced former first ladyKimKeonHeeon Wednesdayto one year and eight months in jail after finding her guilty of acceptingChanel bags and a diamond pendant fromUnification Church officials in return for political favours.

Justin Ho is a Canadian studying dentistry in Minneapolis. He was taught to treat a patient regardless of who they are. After recent events in the U.S., he's realized that health care cannot be disentangled from the politics of the day.

David Rauser spoke to CBC News from western Ukraine after being accidentally shot in the head by a member of his team in Donetsk.

A man sprayed an unknown substance on Democratic U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar and was tackled to the ground Tuesday during a town hall in Minneapolis, where tensions over federal immigration enforcement have come to a head after agents fatally shot an intensive care nurse and a mother of three this month.

Two federal officers fired shots during the encounter that killed ICU nurse Alex Pretti in Minneapolis, a U.S. Customs and Border Protection official told Congress in a notice sent Tuesday.

For days, the people of Minneapolis have been expressing outrage over the shooting death of Alex Pretti at the hands of federal agents. Here's how some of them are reacting to the shooting, as well as what they say about U.S. President Donald Trump's move to send more than 2,000 Immigration Customs and Enforcement officers to Minnesota.

Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum on Tuesday blamed Meta, the parent company of Instagram, for failing to add an AI label to a fake image of Canadian Ryan Wedding that she used during a news conference about the alleged drug kingpin. Sheinbaum is under increasing pressure at home to explain the details of Wedding's arrest after conflicting statements from her government and U.S. authorities.

After a deal was reached to keep TikTok operating in the U.S., some users accused the app of censoring their posts. CBC's fact-check team breaks down the facts about the deal.

A federal judge has issued a temporary order prohibiting removal of a five-year-old Ecuadorian boy and his father whose arrest last week in Minnesota quickly become another lightning rod for America's divisions on immigration under the Trump administration.

Neil Young announced Tuesday on his blog that he is providing free access to his entire music catalogue to residents of Denmark's semiautonomous territory, whose futures have lately become a point of tension between the U.S. and NATO.

The Trump administration has deployed federal troops to several U.S. cities in the past year - mostly Democrat-led, mostly under the guise of unsubstantiated claims that illegal immigrants are terrorizing those cities with crime. But Minneapolis has seen the largest troop deployment and the worst violence.

French lawmakers approved a bill to ban social media for children under the age of 15. France is the first European country to undergo such a move.

Three freelance photojournalists in Gaza were killed in an Israeli airstrike last week, the latest in a long list of Palestinian reporters who have died in the war in Gaza. Some fear it's a sign that Israel views them as a legitimate target despite the recent ceasefire it reached with Hamas.

At least 35 deaths have been reported in states afflicted with severe cold across the U.S., according to local officials.

TikTok agreed to settle a landmark social media addiction lawsuit just before the trial kicked off, the plaintiff's attorneys confirmed.

Advances in technology and a shift in sports consumption offers challenges and opportunities for rights-holders.

Leaders of the European Union and India announced a wide-ranging trade agreement on Tuesday, which came after nearly two decades of on-and-off negotiations that became increasingly urgent in the last six months after stiff tariffs were imposed by U.S. President Donald Trump.

Russian drones hammered the southern Ukrainian city of Odesa overnight, officials said on Tuesday, killing three people and wounding 25 as Moscow intensifies its strikes aimed at pushing Kyiv to give up fighting.