One of the world’s strongest earthquakes struck Russia’s Far East early Wednesday, an 8.8-magnitude temblor that set off a tsunami in the northern Pacific region and prompted warnings for Alaska, Hawaii and other coasts south toward New Zealand. Read More

WASHINGTON -- Ghislaine Maxwell, the imprisoned former girlfriend of disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein, is open to answering questions from Congress -- but only if she is granted immunity from future prosecution for her testimony, her lawyers said Tuesday. Read More

There are many irritating things about the Longest Ballot Committee, the group of self-styled democratic reformers that stacks high-profile ridings with scores of candidates who aren’t really running for office, with the aim of creating ludicrously enormous paper ballots. It’s completely incoherent, first and foremost. Read More

The federal government is on the verge of phasing out a program that sees asylum seekers stay in hotels on Ottawa's dime. Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) has said that funding will end in September. Read More

A B.C. tribunal has ordered WestJet to pay more than $2,000 to two passengers after ruling the airline failed to provide sufficient evidence that weather conditions made it unsafe to operate scheduled flights. Read More

Palo Alto -- Palantir, an American data analysis and artificial intelligence company, has emerged as Silicon Valley's latest tech darling -- one that doesn't hide its macho, America-first ethos now ascendant in Trump-era tech culture. Read More

NEW YORK (AP) -- As a child, Heidi Barley watched her family pay for groceries with food stamps. As a college student, she dropped out because she couldn't afford tuition. In her twenties, already scraping by, she was forced to take a pay cut that shrunk her salary to just $34,000 a year. Read More

GLEICHEN -- An Alberta man faces murder charges in the deaths of two men who police say were struck by a vehicle while they were walking with a group of people over the weekend. Read More

Former Canadian prime minister Justin Trudeau is having a busy summer, having vacationed in Switzerland with his 17-year-old son Xavier Trudeau and having dinner with pop star Katy Perry at a Montreal restaurant. Read More

Christian musician and pastor Sean Feucht, who had six performance permits revoked on the first leg of his Canadian tour last week, may need to seek out new venues for some of the advertised concerts on next month’s second leg in Western Canada. Read More

A man who said he planned on bombing every synagogue in Toronto to “to kill as many Jews as possible” was sentenced to house arrest Monday after a sentencing hearing that heard of the terror and fear his vivid threats caused. Read More

A new study in the New England Journal of Medicine has found that ivermectin, an antiparasitic drug used to treat tropical diseases such as river blindness, can also fight the spread of malaria. It does so in a way that seems oddly (and satisfyingly) like revenge against the mosquitos that carry the disease. It makes the user's blood a deadly poison to the insects that want to consume it. Read More

A menacing buzz reverberates through the night sky in eastern Ukraine. Explosions ring out, flashes illuminate sunflower fields below and the smell of gunpowder poisons the air. Read More

At this time last summer, Montreal’s Victor-Rousselot Park found itself at the centre of the national debate over supervised injection sites. In April 2024, three months earlier, Maison Benoît Labre, a facility that includes both drug consumption services and a drop-in centre for the homeless, had opened just metres away from the park, which doubles as a playground for the nearby elementary school, whose students use it for recess and lunch breaks. Read More

Twenty-month-old Amelia liked to play with zippers. Read More

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A gunman who killed four people at a Manhattan office building before killing himself was trying to target the headquarters of the National Football League but took the wrong elevator, Mayor Eric Adams said Tuesday. Read More

Retailer Bath & Body Works is refuting a lawsuit filed by a woman who says she was severely burned by an exploding candle manufactured at a Canadian facility. Read More

Many staff inside the country’s leading mental health institution say they are suffering their own trauma from a toxic workplace rife with discrimination and bullying. Read More

While E.M. spent most of her 20s regretting the night she spent with some members of Canada’s 2018 world junior hockey team (and for which she received a lucrative settlement from Hockey Canada), those members spent those same years wondering whether their 30s would take place in jail. Read More

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SEOUL, South Korea — The powerful sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un dismissed the U.S.’s intent to resume diplomacy on North Korea’s denuclearization, saying Tuesday the North flatly opposes any attempt to deny its position as a nuclear weapons state. Read More

OTTAWA -- Avery Shenfeld doesn't think the Bank of Canada will cut its benchmark interest rate at its decision on Wednesday, but if it does, he said it will be a "pleasant surprise." Read More