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Calls for the U.S. and China to co-operate on creating AI guardrails are ramping up as U.S. President Donald Trump welcomes Chinese President Xi Jinping to Washington.

Camp Mystic faces a criminal investigation that could include manslaughter or negligent homicide charges in the deaths of 27 girls amid devastating flooding in Texas last year, court documents show.

A spike in AI agents operating outside human instruction has prompted Washington to propose an emergency hotline with Beijing. Andrew Chang breaks down why the U.S. is opting to keep an open line on AI despite a longstanding rivalry and distrust.Images provided by The Canadian Press, Reuters, Adobe Stock and Getty

After the U.S. president revoked White House media access for CNN, MS NOW and Politico, other major U.S. networks including Fox News pulled out of the TV pool coverage in solidarity. Andrew Chang breaks down what the coverage boycott could mean for Trump's media reach.(Photo credits: The Canadian Press, Reuters, Adobe Stock, De Nederlandsche Bank and Getty Images)

A Venezuelan man shot by a federal immigration agent in Austin, Texas, was treated at a hospital on Tuesday for paralysis on his left side after he had spent a night in ICE detention with a bullet lodged in his back, according to his lawyer.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi is expected to visit Canada in December, Prime Minister Mark Carney confirmed on Tuesday, as the two countries look to reach a trade deal by the end of the year - further signs that the once deep diplomatic chasm between the two governments is being bridged.

U.S. President Donald Trump is vowing to keep using military power to advance his country's interests, including to stop what he calls "hostile foreign adversaries" from gaining influence in the Western Hemisphere.

Prime Minister Mark Carney says Canada is pledging $100 million in new aid for Palestine in an effort to preserve "the possibility of a two-state solution."

The annual U.K. prize program honours the best novel written in English from anywhere in the world.

Zelda Williams has taken to social media to defend her father, the late actor and comedian Robin Williams, and debunk AI-generated deepfake videos that appear to show him discussing conspiracy theories.

Canada produces more potash than any other country in the world, all from 10 active mines in Saskatchewan. U.S. President Donald Trump says he's working on a deal to buy potash from Belarus at a cheaper price. But could Belarus replace our supply? Here are the facts.

The digital extortion group known as ShinyHunters says it has breached the Federal Bureau of Investigation and claims to have stolen data on thousands of FBI employees.

U.S. Republican Sen. John Curtis is calling on the Senate Judiciary Committee to investigate whether Donald Trump Jr. used his proximity to the presidency for financial benefit, after his recent wedding party was partially bankrolled by a Russian oligarch .

Clavicular, the "looksmaxxing" influencer and streamer whose real name is Braden Peters, has been charged with one count each of rape, drugging a person for sexual intercourse and providing alcohol to a minor, according to online court records viewed by CBC News.

The comedians of late-night television have a vested interest in protecting the First Amendment. So when U.S. President Donald Trump announced he was banning news outlets CNN, MS NOW, and Politico from the White House last Friday, they came out swinging.

Ukraine and Russia traded fresh strikes on their respective energy infrastructure overnight, underscoring the gap between the high-level talk of an energy ceasefire in the ongoing war and the reality on the ground.

A grand jury determined that there wasn't evidence to warrant charges in the death of Nolan Wells, a Black college student whose body was found after a July 4 boating trip and party on an island off the Mississippi Gulf Coast. Wells's family swiftly pushed back on the findings.

A jury on Monday convicted a Vermont man of attempted murder in the shootings of three Palestinian college students who were walking near his home, rejecting an insanity defence rooted in his claims that he was acting on orders from U.S. and Israeli intelligence agencies.

CBC News has learned that Canada's change to its citizenship law to recognize the citizenship by descent of 'lost Canadians' is having an unintended consequence south of the border - creating backlogs and processing delays for those seeking genealogical records in the United States.

Denmark, Greenland and the U.S. are to sign a deal on Greenland's security on Tuesday, an agreement Denmark says will put Arctic security under NATO's watch rather than leaving it solely to Washington and Copenhagen.

A U.S. court will hear an appeal argument next month from a man convicted in the human smuggling operation that led to the deaths of a family of four who tried to walk across the Manitoba border into Minnesota in a blizzard.

A lawyer for Lindsay Clancy is asking a judge to investigate the conduct of the lone juror who wanted to convict the mother from Massachusetts of murder in the deaths of her three young children.

The Prime Minister of Norway says threats from Russia are part of the modern security picture and should be taken seriously.

Channon Mondoux grew up in Windsor, Ont., married an American and eventually made a home with her family in Kalamazoo, Mich. On Saturday, Mondoux helped host the fourth annual Can-Am Peace Jam, a festival celebrating Canadian culture and the longstanding ties between the two countries.

U.K. Prime Minister Andy Burnham said Monday that Britain has agreed to provide limited military support to Saudi Arabia to repeal attacks by Iran-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen.

FIFA president Gianni Infantino proposed an outside review of how the governing body makes major decisions on Monday, acknowledging in a letter to members its handling of a now-abandoned investment plan had caused concern.

U.S. President Donald Trump said on Monday that Washington is working on a deal to purchase potash from Belarus for less than what the U.S. currently pays to Canada.

The $81 billion US dollar blockbuster deal will bring together two of Hollywood's oldest studios, key TV networks like CBS and CNN and streaming platforms HBO Max and Paramount+, as well as decades of libraries with titles ranging from Harry Potter to Top Gun.

Canadian and British officials are considering merging two multinational defence initiatives to help a broader network of allies rearm against Russia and other growing international threats, a Canadian official said.

While promoting Misaligned, an upcoming film from Particle6, in an interview with Piers Morgan and actor Tom Conti, AI-generated 'actor' Tilly Norwood abruptly switched from speaking English to Cantonese.

After intense backlash that included a U.S. congressman, several celebrities, marketing experts and a wide swath of the internet, Converse has pulled the sneaker ad critics have accused of evoking Ku Klux Klan imagery, and apologized.

The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) said flights were starting to resume at some busy East Coast airports after an accidentally cut cable forced a ground stop in New York, Philadelphia and Boston Monday.

A United Nations special rapporteur has published a damning report on the U.S. military campaign of missile strikes on boats allegedly transporting drugs, characterizing them as "serial extrajudicial killings."

Amnesty International accused M23 rebels in eastern Congo of carrying out abuses and unlawful killings of miners while trafficking critical minerals to neighbouring Rwanda in what it said could amount to war crimes.

CNN, MS NOW and Politico sued U.S. President Donald Trump and other members of his administration on Monday for banning them from the White House grounds, saying it violated their rights to free speech and a free press under the First Amendment.

Hundreds of Iranian permanent residency applicants received letters in August, informing them they may be inadmissible to Canada due to mandatory military service they served in Iran as young men.

Prime Minister Mark Carney is courting deeper defence ties with Norway, as well as investment from its massive, petroleum-based sovereign wealth fund.

Lindsay Clancy 's former husband said he forgave her for killing their three young children in his first televised interview Sunday on CBS News' 60 Minutes since a jury deadlocked in her trial for the children's deaths.

A U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer shot and wounded a man on Sunday afternoon in the Texas capital of Austin, local officials said.

Russia's ruling United Russia party easily won a parliamentary election that President Vladimir Putin has cast as a test of support for the war in Ukraine, the Central Election Commission said Monday, after over 95 per cent of votes had been counted.

Eighteen suspects who were arrested in the July 2021 killing of Haitian President Jovenel Moise were awaiting extradition to the U.S. on Sunday, marking the end of a drawn-out judicial process in Haiti for a killing that shocked the troubled Caribbean country.

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz suffered a bruising electoral setback in two state elections on Sunday, including a historic defeat for his party, but vowed to press ahead with potentially painful reforms to Europe's biggest economy.

The president of the European Union's investment bank says "the time is ripe" to deepen its co-operation with Canada by exploring how to finance Canadian projects - comments that come as Prime Minister Mark Carney pushes for more EU ties.

U.S. President Donald Trump said on Sunday the triumphal arch he plans to build near Arlington National Cemetery in Washington would double as a "military complex" housing drones and snipers, as well as storing large quantities of ammunition.

North Korea launched two missiles off its eastern coast on Sunday, its second set of tests in roughly a week and days after Pyongyang accused the U.S. of driving tensions on the Korean Peninsula through a series of military drills.

Across the wider Moscow region, the attack killed two people and wounded 20, local Gov. Andrei Vorobyov said. The dead were a 74-year-old man and a 44-year-old woman, he said.

Issues that arose when Prince Harry and Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, stepped back from official duties in 2020, along with new challenges around concerns such as security, are front and centre after their return to Britain.

For women speaking out against the Mafia, the protection offered can be both practically and emotionally challenging. A new Italian law extending protection from organized crime to children and the adults caring for them - often their mothers - is designed to address some of that gap.

Saudi Arabia on Saturday confirmed that Yemen's Houthi rebels tried to attack its capital with a ballistic missile, the first targeting of Riyadh since the escalation in fighting with the Tehran-backed rebels that has opened a new front in the Iran war.

Reporters from three major news organizations - CNN, MS NOW and Politico - were denied access to the White House on Saturday, a day after U.S. President Donald Trump said he was barring them because of reporting he found to be "fake news."