U.S.-Israeli strikes in Iran, and Tehran's retaliation, are set to trigger a surge in U.S. gas prices with a potential knock-on inflationary hit that could pile pressure on President Donald Trump domestically as midterm elections approach. Read More

Auston Matthews, captain of the Toronto Maple Leafs and a recent gold medal winner for the U.S. men's Olympic hockey team, got a round of boos from fans when he was introduced at the Leafs' first home game since the conclusion of the Milano-Cortina Games. Read More

US President Donald Trump on Tuesday lashed out at Britain and Spain for not fully backing his attack on Iran, as he threatened to end "all trade" with Spain. Read More

US President Donald Trump on Tuesday boasted of wide damage on Iran inflicted by the US-Israel attack, while denying that Israel had forced his hand into launching the war. Read More

A man whose teenage son shot dead four people at a U.S. high school was found guilty of murder and manslaughter on Tuesday in a rare case of a parent charged over a shooting carried out by their child. Read More

SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA — Prime Minister Mark Carney is expected to take questions from reporters for the first time since embarking on a 10-day trip to India, Australia and Japan last week. Read More

LONDON, U.K. — Pierre Poilievre will deliver his first keynote speech abroad as Conservative leader on Tuesday in London during which he is expected to advocate for closer ties and fewer trade barriers between Canada and the U.K. in the face of U.S. tariffs. Read More

Iran's supreme leader Ali Khamenei's death is "historically significant" but will not "automatically" lead to the fall of the Iranian system, said the widow of the country's last shah in an interview Tuesday. Read More

Iranian negotiators had boasted about their ability to produce 11 nuclear bombs in talks that were designed to avert a U.S.-Israeli military intervention in Iran, Steve Witkoff, one of the two U.S. negotiators who took part in the meetings, said on Monday. Read More

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The war in the Middle East triggered by US and Israeli strikes on Iran has raised the question of whether the Iranian national team will take part in the World Cup later this year, during which it is due to play group games in the United States. Read More

Former President Bill Clinton told the House panel investigating Jeffrey Epstein that former Treasury Secretary Larry Summers introduced him to the disgraced financier after Clinton departed the White House. Read More

A Toronto synagogue was hit and damaged by gunfire Monday night in what police are investigating as a “targeting incident” and potential hate crime. Read More

The US-Israeli war on Iran reverberated across the region for a fourth day, with oil and gas prices surging and the world adjusting to a conflict that President Donald Trump says has no fixed timeline. Read More

An 86-year-old B.C. man and former teacher recently given an eight-year federal sentence for historic sexual crimes against young boys will have to await the outcome of his appeal from a prison cell, a B.C. judge has ruled. Read More

SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA — Canada's defence minister says the Liberal party is a "big tent" as divisions emerge over its decision to back the U.S. strikes against Iran, calling its supreme leader who was killed in the assaults a "force for evil." Read More

British Columbians, particularly those in Vancouver, have learned that another agreement was signed behind their backs, this time by the federal government and First Nations authorities. On Feb. 20, Ottawa inked three “historic” agreements with the Musqueam Indian Band, whose traditional land covers the City of Vancouver and its inner suburbs like Burnaby and North Vancouver. Read More

Notorious child rapist and killer Michael Rafferty has been convicted of assault with a weapon after attacking an inmate in the prison where he is serving time for the brutal murder of eight-year-old Victoria (Tori) Stafford, National Post has learned. Read More

The Online News Act (C-18) is working. It’s delivering real resources into newsrooms. And that’s precisely why it is under attack. By Meta. By its proxies and lobbyists. By its friends in government. Read More

The last 10 or 15 years have not been kind to Canada. Along with a decline in prosperity has come an erosion of the things that made our society great, a decline of what held us together and made us the envy of the world: things like resilience, friendship and service. In this series, National Post writers consider What We’ve Lost. Read More

On Saturday, the United States and Israel launched a joint operation against the Islamic Republic's regime in Iran, with the stated goals of preventing Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons and helping the Iranian people topple the repressive regime. Read More

Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is now the former supreme leader of Iran and the world is a better place for his absence. Dozens of other figures in Iran’s murderous Islamist regime join him in improving the planetary climate by their removal as the result of a joint American-Israeli attack on Iran. But U.S. lawmakers and the public learned about the conflict after the decision to launch strikes had been made by the Trump administration. U.S. President Donald Trump has followed in the footsteps of too many of his predecessors in committing the country to a military conflict with all the risk that entails without first convincing people of the necessity of such a step or asking Congress for constitutionally required permission. Read More

OTTAWA — A new study from free-market think tank the Montreal Economic Institute finds that new federal procurement rules favouring domestic firms will lead to costlier projects, shoddy infrastructure and make Canadians worse off. Read More

There are nearly four times as many chickens as humans on Earth — but being ubiquitous doesn’t necessarily mean being understood. In fact, according to a new documentary, our knowledge of the poultry might indeed be quite paltry. Read More