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Elon Musk won a shareholder vote on Thursday that would give the Tesla CEO stock worth $1 trillion if he hits certain performance targets over the next decade, handing him a chance to become history's first trillionaire.

The man who threw a sandwich and became symbol of resistance to U.S. President Donald Trump's D.C. law enforcement surge has been found not guilty of assault.

A U.S. judge on Thursday approved a request by the Justice Department to dismiss a criminal case against Boeing stemming from two fatal 737 MAX plane crashes that killed 346 people including 18 Canadians.

Sudan's paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) agreed to a proposal from the United States for a humanitarian ceasefire, the group said on Thursday in a statement.

Uruapan Mayor Carlos Manzo's killing triggered a spasm of fury that has fuelled protests across the fertile Mexican state of Michoacan, which produces limes and avocados found on Canadian grocery shelves.

Israeli jets struck several towns in southern Lebanon on Thursday, marking an escalation in their near-daily strikes on the country.

France's Louvre Museum began a security audit a decade ago but the recommended upgrades will not be completed until 2032, the state auditor said in a report on Thursday compiled before a spectacular heist there last month.

Typhoon Kalmaegi slammed into Vietnam on Thursday, forcing authorities to cancel hundreds of flights and order people to stay indoors, two days after the storm started sweeping across the Philippines, killing at least 114 people.

Microsoft co-founder and philanthropist Bill Gates has been in the news of late, with claims that he has changed his stance on climate change, following a memo he posted on his website. But is that really the case?

Airports in New York, Los Angeles and Chicago along with hubs across the U.S. are among the 40 that will see flights cut starting Friday due to the government shutdown, according to a list distributed to the airlines and obtained by The Associated Press.

Yesterday's budget teased that the government is working with CBC/Radio-Canada to explore Canada's participation in the Eurovision Song Contest. While Europop fans might be excited, Canadian participation might not be so easy, as past attempts have proved.

It's been one year since U.S. President Donald Trump's second election win. CBC's Mike Crawley breaks down how Trump's policies have affected law enforcement and immigration since his return to the White House.

Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum said on Wednesday that she had filed a criminal complaint against a man who groped and tried to kiss her as she greeted members of the public, a day after a video of the incident went viral.

Stargazers got a celestial treat with the appearance of a supermoon, the second one this year.

The government shutdown has entered its 36th day, setting the record as the longest ever, disrupting the lives of millions of Americans with federal program cuts, missed paychecks, flight delays while costing the U.S. at least $10 billion per week, according to estimates.

Thousands of boxes filled with shelter items and food are sitting idle in Jordan, Egypt and Israel, humanitarian agencies say, warning that very little aid is making its way into Gaza nearly four weeks after a ceasefire deal between Hamas and Israel began.

Japan deployed troops on Wednesday to help contain a surge of bear attacks that have terrorized residents in a mountainous region in the northern prefecture of Akita.

Typhoon Kalmaegi has left at least 85 people dead and 75 others missing in the central Philippines, many in widespread flooding that trapped people on their roofs and swept away cars in a hard-hit province still recovering from a deadly earthquake, officials said Wednesday.

U.S. President Donald Trump's threats to go "guns-a-blazing" into Nigeria over what he claims to be deadly persecution of Christians are prompting pushback in the West African nation.

CBC News recently travelled to Starr County, Texas, to get a better sense of how voters feel one year after Donald Trump returned to the White House. Trump flipped this county in 2024, becoming the first Republican presidential nominee to win it in 132 years - though residents are divided on his policies.

Belgium's Brussels and Liege airports were closed on Tuesday evening after drone sightings, diverting many incoming planes and preventing others from taking off.

Democratic candidates notched wins in gubernatorial races in New Jersey and Virginia on Tuesday night, and in New York City's high-profile mayoral contest.

German police said on Tuesday they had conducted an internationally co-ordinated action against alleged fraud and money laundering networks that compromised German payment service providers and racked up damages of hundreds of millions of euros.

While the number of illegal crossings at the North Dakota and Minnesota border with Canada is dropping, U.S. authorities still fear human trafficking will lead to more deaths during the dangerous winter months.

Sydney Sweeney spoke for the first time to GQ about the ad in which the actress makes a play on the word "jeans" that was viewed as having eugenicist undertones by some on social media. Sweeney said she didn't see much of the online backlash.

Rescuers dug through ice and snow on a mountain in Nepal on Tuesday to look for the bodies of seven climbers who were killed by an avalanche, officials said.

The remains of a hostage in Gaza have been turned over and are now in Israel, the military said Tuesday, in the latest sign of progress under the U.S.-brokered ceasefire.

Opening arguments began Tuesday in the trial of Washington, D.C., resident Sean Charles Dunn, a U.S. Justice Department employee who threw a sandwich at a federal agent in August and was subsequently fired by President Donald Trump's administration.

Countries have submitted their most recent round of promises and plans to fight climate change, and the UN has tallied them up in a new report. Here is its latest projection for how much the Earth is now expected to warm by the end of the century, and how Canada and the U.S. are contributing.

The U.S. Supreme Court takes on a major case on Wednesday when it decides if President Donald Trump has the authority to use a law usually cited in emergencies for the imposition of tariffs on other countries. While they may not be as blunt as the law Trump has cited, there are a handful of other laws the president can cite to utilize tariffs for leverage and revenue.

Typhoon Kalmaegi has left at least 26 people dead in the Philippines, mostly in flooding set off by the storm, which barrelled across the central part of the country on Tuesday, disaster response officials said.

Israeli police have arrested a former top military chief legal officer, days after she handed in her resignation over a criminal inquiry into a leaked video that shows soldiers allegedly abusing a Palestinian detainee.

Far-right activist Tommy Robinson was cleared on Tuesday of committing an offenceunder British counterterrorism laws after refusing to give police his phone's passcode during a July 2024 border stop.

In 2015, nearly 200 countries adopted the Paris Agreement, the first global pact to fight climate change. Here's a comparison of then and now - in terms of the state of the climate, the way we live and our technologies, our laws and where we're putting our money.

Dick Cheney, the hard-charging conservative who became one of the most powerful and polarizing vice-presidents in U.S. history and a leading advocate for the invasion of Iraq, has died at age 84.

Firefighters late Monday finally managed to extract a worker from beneath rubble inside a medieval tower that partially collapsed during renovation work in the heart of Italy's capital, but the joy of that rescue was short-lived.

Virginia and New Jersey, as they have in modern times, hold gubernatorial elections the November after a presidential inauguration. While those races remain important, it's a California ballot measure and a Pennsylvania vote regarding the state Supreme Court that could have more significant national consequences.

Former workers of a joint venture between the government of Cuba and Canadian mining company Sherritt International say they were victims of a wage confiscation scheme that left them to live on just a fraction of their nominal salaries. They also say they were forced to attend Communist Party meetings and provide reports on all interactions with their Canadian colleagues.

Voters in New York City could make history Tuesday night by electing their first Muslim mayor. Polls have suggested Zohran Mamdani has a lead over Andrew Cuomo, prompting U.S. President Donald Trump to threaten to withhold federal funds from the city. Here's a guide to the election.

In Dobropillia, a coal-mining town just a few kilometres from the front line with Russia in Ukraine's eastern Donbas region, its few remaining inhabitants shuffle to find food or water under the constant gaze - and hum - of the drones that now rule the battlefield.

Chinese President Xi Jinping gifted South Korean President Lee Jae Myung a pair of smartphones, jokingly telling him to 'check if there's a backdoor' - referring to the risk of unauthorized bypassing of security controls. Andrew Chang breaks down the layers of Xi's comment to better understand what may have been hidden behind the humour.Images provided by The Canadian Press, Reuters and Getty Images

Diane Ladd, the three-time Academy Award nominee whose roles ranged from the brash waitress in Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore to the scheming parent in Wild at Heart, has died at 89.

Jamaica's peak tourism season is one month away, and officials in the hurricane-ravaged nation are rushing to rebuild from the catastrophic Category 5 storm that shredded the island's western region.

The Trump administration says it will restart the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, but will only pay half the amount people usually get. The move comes after two federal judges ruled that freezing payments for the U.S.'s biggest anti-hunger program is unlawful.

Actor-director Justin Baldoni's lawsuit against his It Ends With Us co-star Blake Lively, her husband Ryan Reynolds and their publicist will not be moving forward, after a judge formally ended the suit, saying Baldoni did not refile any amended claims by the deadline.

Israeli fire killed three Palestinians in theGazaStrip on Monday, north of the southern city of Rafah, which remains under Israeli control, according to local health authorities, further straining the fragileU.S.-backed ceasefire.

The world's leading authority on food crises says it has detected famine in two areas of war-torn Sudan, including the city of El Fasher where paramilitary groups have reportedly been carrying out mass killings.

A Romanian worker who was trapped for hours under rubble in Rome on Monday following the partial collapse of a medieval tower near the Colosseum has been rescued by emergency services, local authorities said.