CARACAS, Venezuela -- The Venezuelan government on Monday sought to show its people and the world that the country is being run independently and not controlled by the United States following its stunning weekend arrest of Nicolas Maduro, the authoritarian leader who had ruled for almost 13 years. Read More

It seems clear that there was great excitement in the Poilievre household on Saturday morning, as news of the surgical strike by U.S. special forces in Venezuela filtered through. Read More

Nicolas Maduro walked into a packed New York courtroom Monday with his shoulders back, scanning the public gallery and offering a few Spanish greetings, before declaring: "I am innocent." Read More

The war of words between U.S. President Donald Trump and the autonomous territory of Greenland continued into the new year, heated up by the recent American incursion into Venezuela to capture its president. Read More

President Claudia Sheinbaum downplayed Donald Trump’s threat to invade Mexico and reiterated her rejection of a U.S. military presence in her country. Read More

A Canadian woman is facing charges in the U.S. after allegedly illegally crossing the border into Washington state and becoming aggressive and violent during her arrest in late December, injuring a U.S. border agent in the process. Read More

A Paris court Monday sentenced 10 people accused of cyber-bullying President Emmanuel Macron's wife Brigitte by spreading false information about her gender and insinuations related to the age difference between the first couple. Read More

The Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela and the Islamic Republic of Iran may seem an unlikely pairing in the effort to make sense of the world at the moment, but the dramatic events unfolding in these two decrepit kleptocracies aren’t just coinciding in an inconvenient competition for front-page headlines. Read More

Once the initial shock faded, a clearer understanding of events in Venezuela has begun to emerge. What unfolded over the weekend — as the U.S. launched air strikes and captured Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro — was not a sweeping regime-change campaign, nor an impulsive display of American force. It was a limited, disciplined operation with defined objectives and notable restraint. Read More

An Uber driver in the United Kingdom reportedly kicked out a Jewish camper and staff member in the middle of the night after initiating a conversation about Israel and Judaism. Read More

The National Post is launching an exciting new speaker series in partnership with the Investigative Journalism Bureau. Read More

European officials pledged to support Greenland after U.S. President Donald Trump restarted his campaign to take the self-governed island in the wake of his strike on Venezuela. Read More

The reaction to the capture of Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro roughly falls into two camps: those who celebrate the downfall of a corrupt narco-terrorist and those who condemn it as a suspected breach of international law. Read More

Denmark’s prime minister urged Donald Trump to stop threatening to take control of Greenland as the U.S. president’s move to run Venezuela set alarm bells ringing in the Nordic nation about America’s military ambitions. Read More

Canada once had a public broadcaster in the true sense of the word. Now we have a behemoth we pay nearly $1.5 billion a year for that almost nobody watches and doesn’t come close to serving its original purpose, as David Cayley tells Brian Lilley. Cayley, author of the new book, "The CBC," was a producer there for decades. He says even the news division it prides itself on proved its inability to serve the public during the COVID pandemic, when it consciously chose to promote government narratives, blacklisted dissenting scientists and failed to ask basic questions. Amid stark audience polarization and an unprecedented media revolution, Cayley explains why the CBC needs a total rethink if it’s going to justify its continued existence. (Recorded Nov. 27, 2025.) Read More

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has appointed former federal cabinet minister and Toronto Member of Parliament Chrystia Freeland as an adviser on Ukraine’s economic development. Read More

The Islamic regime will get “hit very hard” if it starts killing protesters, U.S. President Donald Trump warned on Sunday, upping his rhetoric as demonstrations continued for the eighth day. Read More

President Donald Trump's claim that the United States is "in charge" of Venezuela will be underscored Monday when the oil-rich nation's deposed leader is hauled before a New York court, while his successor offers to cooperate. Read More

The ousting of Nicolas Maduro as Venezuela's president puts to the test his "Chavista" factions that have governed the oil-rich nation for 27 years. Read More

In North America, centre-right parties typically reliably win the votes of older people. The Conservative Party of Canada, however, is an exception. Figuring out how to win back support among seniors is a new challenge facing the party. Read More

Is antisemitism a trivial problem in Canada? Are the protests that many Jews decry as antisemitic really just anti-Zionist? Are nearly half of Canada’s Jews non-Zionists? According to Avi Lewis, who’s running for the leadership of the NDP, and Corey Balsam, national co-ordinator of Independent Jewish Voices, an anti-Zionist group, the answer to all these questions is “yes.” They are wrong. Read More

When MP Michael Ma announced in early December that he was switching parties, pundits’ views on the floor crossing were all over the place. Read More

WASHINGTON, D.C. — In 2020, then U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer described the Canada-U.S.-Mexico free-trade agreement (CUSMA) as the “new gold standard against which all future trade agreements will be judged," after the deal he helped put together was passed in the Senate. Six years later, in 2026, CUSMA will be facing scrutiny on its real-world results as the three countries begin renegotiating its terms. Read More

Denmark called on the United States to stop "threatening" Greenland Sunday, as President Donald Trump told U.S. media he "absolutely" needed the territory, a day after Washington seized the leader of Venezuela. Read More