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Every U.S. Homeland Security officer on the ground in Minneapolis, including Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers, will be immediately issued body-worn cameras, Secretary Kristi Noem said Monday.

A Chinese whistleblower fled to the U.S. with footage of detention camps and requested asylum, only to be arrested by ICE agents and face deportation to Uganda. Now, five years after his saga began, his asylum claim has been granted.

Authorities believe the 84-year-old mother of NBC's Today show host Savannah Guthrie was kidnapped, abducted or otherwise taken against her will, and the sheriff said Monday it's imperative she's found soon because she could die without her medication.

NASA ran into a leak while fuelling its new moon rocket Monday in one final make-or-break test that will determine when astronauts can launch on a lunar fly-around.

U.S. skeleton racer Katie Uhlaender's last chance to make the Olympic field may have been lost Monday, with the Court of Arbitration for Sport saying it lacks the jurisdiction to change the result of a race that could have earned her a berth in the Milan-Cortina Winter Games.

The annual Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show is underway, and over 3,000 dogs from around the world have gathered in New York City to participate in various competitions.

U.S. President Donald Trump on Monday said he had agreed on a trade deal with India that slashes U.S. tariffs on Indian goods to 18 per cent from 50 per cent in exchange for India lowering trade barriers and stopping its purchases of Russian oil.

Here is a look at some of the notable names in the latest release of files from the U.S. Justice Department pertaining to Jeffrey Epstein. The list includes politicians, entertainment figures, business leaders and Royal Family members, with some releasing statements this past weekend about their interactions with the late accused child sex trafficker.

In Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy, preparations for the Winter Olympics remain visibly unfinished, underlining the pressure organizers are facing as the curling tournament starts Wednesday and the first women's downhill training is scheduled for Thursday.

The eldest son of Norway's crown princess has been arrested, just before his trial opens on charges including rape, police said on Monday.

Future PWHL stars Abbey Murphy and Caroline Harvey are among the American players to watch at Olympics. Meanwhile, captain Hilary Knight will lead the team into her 5th and final Olympic Games.

Dozens of Palestinians were expected to leave or return toGazaon Monday after Israel reopened the sole pedestrian crossing to Egypt, a major step in the ceasefire intended to end the war, though with strict limitations on access.

U.S. President Donald Trump said Sunday he will move to close Washington's Kennedy Center performing arts venue for two years starting in July for construction.

The Lockheed Martin event in Texas comes as the future of the CF-18 replacement program is under review because of the ongoing trade and political disputes between Canada and the United States, and as the first F-35 is set to be delivered within months.

Israel reopened the Rafah border crossing on Sunday for people to travel between Gaza and Egypt, the first opening of effectively the sole route in or out of the Palestinian territory since May 2024. Israel seized the border crossing in May 2024, nine months after it launched attacks on the region.

A five-year-old boy and his father detained by immigration officers in Minnesota and held in Texas have been released following a judge's order. They have returned to Minnesota, according to the office of U.S. Democratic Rep. Joaquin Castro.

Pakistani security forces killed 145 militants in a 40-hour battle launched as a series of co-ordinated gun and bomb attacks across Balochistan left nearly 50 people dead, the province's chief minister said on Sunday.

Fifteen people were killed and seven wounded after a Russian drone struck a bus carrying miners in Ukraine's southeastern Dnipropetrovsk region, energy firm DTEK and government officials said on Sunday.

Emergency power cuts swept across several Ukrainian cities as well as neighbouring Moldova on Saturday, officials said, amid a commitment from the Kremlin to U.S. President Donald Trump to pause strikes on Kyiv as Ukraine battles one of its bleakest winters in years.

Iran's supreme leader warned Sunday that any attack by the United States would spark a "regional war" in the Middle East, further escalating tensions as U.S. President Donald Trump has threatened to militarily strike the Islamic Republic over its crackdown on recent nationwide protests.

Carlos Alcaraz is the youngest man ever to complete a career Grand Slam after securing the Australian Open title against Novak Djokovic, who had never lost in his 10 previous finals at Melbourne Park.

A Canadian entrepreneur in Rome is building Magisterium AI, a Catholic platform trained on church documents and Vatican-linked collections. The project aims to make doctrine searchable at scale, while raising questions about accuracy, authority and how it will be used.

Images of Liam Conejo Ramos wearing a bunny hat and Spiderman backpack while surrounded by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers sparked even more outcry about the Trump administration's immigration crackdown in Minnesota.

A North Atlantic right whale named Division was found dead in U.S. waters this week, entangled in fishing gear. It's the first entanglement death of 2026, according to the Canadian Whale Institute.

The Strait of Hormuz, the narrow mouth of the Persian Gulf, again has become a focus of tensions as Iran prepares to launch a military drill that could see fire into a lane crucial for global shipping.

Hospitals in Gaza said Israeli strikes killed at least 30 Palestinians on Saturday, one of the highest tolls since the October ceasefire aimed at stopping the fighting.

In some classrooms in the Twin Cities, more than half of the desks sit empty. The children of immigrants are increasingly absent from school, sports teams and even front yards, fearful that immigration and customs agents will detain them, or their parents, because of the colour of their skin.

China's highest-ranked military general's purge leaves President Xi Jinping almost alone at the helm of the military. Despite no one knowing for sure what led to this latest crackdown, there's a lot of speculation about what it means for the biggest army in the world.

U.S. President Donald Trump says he convinced Russian President Vladimir Putin to pause attacks on Ukraine's power grid during one of the coldest winters in years. President Zelenskyy suggested Russia has merely shifted to other targets.

U.S. President Donald Trump blindsided Mexico with an executive order threatening tariffs on any country that supplied Cuba with oil, Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum revealed on Friday.

Federal prosecutors can't seek the death penalty against Luigi Mangione in the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, a judge ruled Friday, foiling the Trump administration's bid to see him executed for what it called a premeditated, cold-blooded assassination that shocked America."

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.