WASHINGTON — In a warning to Russia, President Donald Trump said Friday he’s ordering the repositioning of two U.S. nuclear submarines “based on the highly provocative statements” of the country’s former president Dmitry Medvedev. Read More

The Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (CCPA) released an analysis this week of just what the Liberal government’s pursuit of government savings might mean for the federal public service — i.e., first and foremost, significant job cuts. The left-wing think tank estimates 57,000 total jobs might be shed by 2028, and focuses in particular on the Canada Revenue Agency (CRA), Employment and Social Development, and Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship. Read More

Two Jewish groups say they have been excluded from participating in Montreal’s upcoming Pride Parade next Sunday. Read More

A 28-year-old schoolteacher who admitted killing a couple who were hiking with two of their children at a state park in Arkansas has been charged with murder. Read More

MADISON, Wis. — A Milwaukee man who killed a 19-year-old college student on their first date and spread her body parts around the area was sentenced Friday to life in prison without the possibility of parole. Read More

Billionaire businessman Frank Stronach, who is awaiting trial on more than a dozen charges related to sexual assault, is now also facing a civil lawsuit from a woman who alleges he sexually assaulted her decades ago when she was a student sponsored by Magna, the auto parts company he founded. Read More

Canada’s newest tennis sensation, 18-year-old Victoria Mboko, is continuing to attract attention as she moves into the fourth round of the Canadian Open in Montreal this weekend.  Read More

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Canada’s view of its southern neighbour has understandably dimmed after President Donald Trump launched a tariff war. With Trump declaring more tariffs against Canada effective Friday, National Post spoke this week with former ambassador David Cohen, former president Joe Biden’s envoy to Ottawa from 2021 to 2025, who was tasked with resetting U.S.-Canada relations following the first tumultuous Trump term, which included its own tariff actions against Canadian goods. Read More

A delegation led by President Donald Trump’s Special Envoy to the Middle East Steve Witkoff and Ambassador Mike Huckabee went into Gaza on Friday to inspect humanitarian aid efforts at the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) aid distribution site in Rafah, the U.S. envoy announced. Read More

Ottawa paramedics say a man is dead after the small airplane he was piloting crashed into trees near the city's airport on Thursday. Read More

OTTAWA — Unionized workers at Canada Post are due to wind up voting on the Crown corporation’s latest contract Friday afternoon. Read More

TORONTO -- An Ontario judge is set to deliver his sentence this afternoon in the case of a teen girl found guilty of manslaughter in a deadly swarming attack on a homeless Toronto man. Read More

OTTAWA — Prime Minister Mark Carney expressed his disappointment on Friday about U.S. President Donald Trump’s decision to increase so-called “fentanyl tariffs” to 35 per cent and said his government is committed to supporting the most affected sectors. Read More

Our cookbook of the week is What Can I Bring? by food writer, recipe developer and cookbook author Casey Elsass. Read More

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OTTAWA — After 10 years of constant growth, the federal government now says there are too many senior executives in the public service, slowing productivity and creating workplace conflicts. Read More

The announcement by Prime Minister Mark Carney that Canada will recognize a Palestinian state at the United Nations in September should set off alarm bells across every democratic nation that values truth, justice and peace. Read More

You’ll surely read a lot in the NP’s pages about the Wednesday ruling by Ontario Superior Court Justice Paul Schabas which found that the province’s plans to remove exclusive bike lanes on some key Toronto arteries is contrary to the Charter of Rights. Legal conservatives will argue that this decision, if upheld on appeal, amounts to an arrogation of further new powers by a Canadian judiciary that has already been running amok for 50 years. They will characterize it as a matter of scribbling a “right to bike lanes” into the Charter. Read More

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KYIV, Ukraine — Ukraine’s Parliament on Thursday overwhelmingly approved a bill presented by President Volodymyr Zelenskyy that restores the independence of two of the country’s key anti-corruption watchdogs, reversing his contentious move last week that curbed their power and brought an outcry. Read More

WASHINGTON — U.S. President Donald Trump has signed an executive order pushing tariffs on Canada to 35 per cent beginning on Friday, following through on a threat to raise duties if Ottawa didn’t make a trade deal. Read More

OTTAWA -- Canada and many of its NATO allies released a joint statement Thursday condemning a "growing number" of state threats from Iranian intelligence services. Read More

KYIV, Ukraine -- Russian missile and drone attacks overnight on Ukraine's capital city killed at least 13 people, including a 6-year-old boy, and wounded 132 others, authorities said Thursday. Read More