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Former member of Parliament Inky Mark has been hit with 26 more weapons-related charges, after police say they found 445 firearms and 26.5 kilograms of explosives in his Manitoba home.

Testimony concluded Wednesday in the murder trial of Lindsay Clancy, a mother accused of strangling her three young children in a case that has drawn attention to postpartum mental health.

U.S. CIA Director John Ratcliffe spoke with Russian intelligence officials during a visit to Moscow but did not meet President Vladimir Putin, the Kremlin said on Wednesday ‌of a trip that U.S. President Donald Trump described as "semi-routine."

As the Canada-U.S. trade war heats up, the Alberta government says Premier Danielle Smith will provide an update regarding tariffs after previously urging a more conciliatory approach in trade negotiations between Ottawa and Washington. Smith has been calling on the federal government to return to the negotiating table with the United States before Canadian tariffs on $27.6-billion worth of U.S. goods take effect in two weeks.

Blake Lively will get just over $400,000 of the $8 million US she sought in legal costs from actor and director Justin Baldoni after they settled their fight over the production of their 2024 film It Ends With Us, a federal judge ruled Wednesday.

The polar mission is being carried out in order to better define Canada's claim on a portion of the Arctic seafloor, which is also claimed by Russia and Denmark via its autonomous territory Greenland.

A mid-afternoon storm Wednesday on Prince Edward Island brought high winds, hail, rain, thunder and lightning.

A company's proposal for an underwater AI data centre off Eastport, Maine, is facing opposition from Peskotomuhkati leaders in Canada and the United States who say the project could threaten waterways that are central to their culture.

A climber in British Columbia was rescued by helicopter after being stung more than 100 times by wasps in backcountry north of Vancouver.

Tim Curry, the quirky British actor known for playing eccentric roles like the flamboyant, fishnet-wearing mad scientist Dr. Frank-N-Furter in The Rocky Horror Picture Show, has died at age 80.

The British actor who died Tuesday brought joy in his “Rocky Horror Picture Show” role.

Olivia Chow took to the American airwaves Wednesday, telling network interviewers that the U.S. president should take a page from the country star.

The Carney government has urged Liberal MPs to avoid escalating tensions or provoking the Trump administration in public, the Star has learned.

At least 160 people are dead and hundreds are missing including 24 Canadians.

Starting Sept. 8, Saskatchewan will impose the 50 per cent fee, the Premier said.

Road closures are in effect in the area of Boultbee and Jones avenues as crews work to repair the hole.

On Wednesday morning, Trump spoke on a podcast about the collapse of the Canada-U.S. trade talks, saying he had offered what he believed to be "pretty good deal."

MONTRÉAL - RCMP says two Air Canada employees have been arrested in connection with alleged cocaine and cannabis trafficking out of Montréal-Trudeau Airport.

Opoku-Boadu was accused of second-degree murder in the stabbing death of 39-year-old Matthew Rumble, a complete stranger, on June 25, 2024, after both got off a bus at Jane station.

Officials in Nepal said 403 people, including 341 foreign nationals, were reported missing.

The play picks up 19 years after the end of the final novel, ‘Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows’

Torrential floods swallowed roads, bridges, houses, and power projects in the border areas of Nepal. Here’s a look at what caused the calamity

He often appeared in movies as a hammy villain and was nominated three times for a Tony Award for Broadway roles

China has become an important counterweight as Canada seeks to reduce reliance on the U.S.

Justice Department says it seized domains used by two hacking platforms, dubbed ‘QScan’ and ‘QTRouter,’ which it said had been used as part of the campaign

Trump’s administration seeks to crack down on left-wing groups in its counterterrorism efforts

FBI psychiatrist testifies that the choices she made while killing her three children indicated she remained in control of her actions

Kremlin spokesman said John Ratcliffe did not meet with Putin, who was informed of the contacts that were ‘on the intelligence agencies’ level’

From country songs that challenge traditional gender dynamics to the greatest ballad ever committed to record, some classics stand above others

Settlement is one of the biggest in state consumer protection history, ending landmark trial filed by 47 states

The U.S. Justice Department said it had seized domains used by two hacking platforms it alleges had been used in the campaign, which also targeted the U.S. Federal Reserve.

Prince Harry, Meghan, and their children, Prince Archie and Princess Lilibet, are said to have landed in the U.K. privately from California.

Prime Minister Mark Carney will also attend the European Union’s annual State of the Union address by the European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen.

A huge wall of mud and rock collapsed into a river on the Himalayan border of Nepal and China's Tibet on Wednesday, triggering catastrophic flooding on the Nepali side.

Dubai International Airport, one of the world’s busiest hubs, said Wednesday it saw a sharp drop in passengers during the second quarter as the Iran war disrupted air travel.

The government has opened an investigation, and Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif ordered the Health Ministry’s highest civil servant to be removed from office.

A CBSA report alleges that as a deputy director in Iran’s Ministry of Industry, Mines and Trade, Abbas Omidi, assisted the regime's state sponsorship of terrorism.

Amsterdam police are still searching for the identity of the man named 'Lucky' after Vancouver police confirmed he was not missing from the province.

U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent warned every country that does business with the Islamic Republic to sever those financial ties or face retaliation from the United States.

Police in Amsterdam and Vancouver say fingerprints confirm Amsterdam's mystery man "Lucky" is not John Russell Kenny, who went missing in Vancouver in 1994.

The social media giant settled with 47 states, the District of Columbia and U.S. territories, and agreed to make major changes to its products over claims its platforms endangered children.

The order came amid a spate of legal challenges, including one by Democratic state attorneys general, that could still result in the rules being blocked.

Lèse-majesté, American-style.

The actor’s gift for garish eccentricity was indelibly appropriate for the outlandish, cross-dressing mad scientist Frank-N-Furter.

Senator Darline Graham has spoken far more about her desire to support President Trump’s agenda than she has talked about her brother’s political goals — or her own.

Higher revenue and employee limits for small businesses that get federal contracts and loans could disadvantage the smallest companies, their owners say.

Many of them were traveling to or from a Himalayan peak that is revered by Hindus as the spiritual home of the god Shiva.

A judge found that Democratic lawmakers had not followed proper procedures in passing a redistricting amendment, but the state Supreme Court will have the final say.

Nothing a critic or comic said about Parton — and they said plenty — compared with what she said about herself. She stepped on their punchlines and took away their power.

Even as her talents and work ethic opened up the world to her, she kept coming home. For many in the complicated region she’s from, that meant a lot.

Salesforce's Anthropic stake led to higher profit in the latest quarter.

New products accounted for 30% of total bookings and Okta said it closed dozens of AI deals during the period

Oil fell more than 3% earlier in the session as the U.S. relies on economic pressure against Iran rather than military strikes.

OpenAI’s Jalapeño chip beat Nvidia Blackwell systems on key inference-efficiency tests as custom AI silicon gains ground among major tech companies.

Hackers targeted networks "operated by hospitals, telecommunications providers, power companies, financial institutions, and defense contractors," a filing said.

Anthropic will rent around 460 megawatts of compute capacity at an Nscale data center development in West Virgina, according to sources.

Iran and Oman are approaching a deal to secure safe transit through the Strait of Hormuz and future administration of the vital economic artery.

Analysts expect the company to launch new iPhones and Apple Watches at the event, including the company's first folding phone

The empire of billionaire Los Angeles Dodgers owner Mark Walter has faced media scrutiny since he said he would sell his majority share of the LA Lakers.

Meta and state attorneys general settled a federal trial centering on allegations that company misrepresented the extent of child-related mental health harms.

An avalanche caused the Bhotekoshi River to overflow, sending waves of water and mud that swept buildings and people away.

European security officials officials said an explosive drone found at Leipzig/Halle airport in Germany fits a pattern of likely Russian aggression across Europe.

The couple shocked Britain's royal watchers last week with the news they would return to live in the U.K., ending a self-imposed exile in California.

A Kremlin spokesman said John Ratcliffe did not meet with Vladimir Putin and that it was "premature" to say whether the trip would affect fraught U.S.-Russia relations.

The response to Congo’s raging Ebola epidemic has been hampered by a severe lack of funding and pervasive misinformation, according to people on the front lines.

Canada announced new tariffs of up to 50 percent on hundreds of American goods in retaliation for U.S. tariffs that took effect last week. Starting Sept. 8, Canada will double tariffs on American steel and aluminum to 50 percent and impose tariffs on around 700 other products.

Beijing, seeking an advantage, casts itself as a global champion of free trade.

Iran’s top trade partners include China, Iraq, Turkey and the United Arab Emirates. But the Trump administration has not said who new sanctions would target, or how so.

The president cited his tariff fight in a social media post, saying the United States doesn’t expect to be “doing much business with Ontario any longer.”

The threat of higher prices for gas, cars, hockey sticks and more gave fresh life to Democratic arguments that the president is destabilizing the economy.

Hundreds are feared to have died in flooding and landslides on the border of Nepal and Tibet.

John Sweeney was serving a whole-life sentence after being convicted in 2011 of the two murders.

Curry was best known for playing the outlandish Frank-N-Furter in cult film The Rocky Horror Picture Show.

The striker is nearing a move to Villa Park after three years at Chelsea.

A 50-year-old Thai suspect was arrested with the eggs in a "homemade incubator" carried as hand luggage.

The Met Office has issued fresh thunderstorm warnings for Thursday with the potential for England and Wales to see flash flooding as the unsettled weather continues.

Luke Littler's hopes of qualifying for the Players Championship finals suffers another setback as he is beaten by Brendan Dolan in the semi-finals of PC28 in Leicester.

Prince Harry, Meghan, and their two children are believed to have flown into the country privately from California.

Supporting Palestine Action became illegal in the UK in 2025 after the government banned it under anti-terror legislation.

English actor Tim Curry, best known for playing the outlandish Frank-N-Furter in film musical The Rocky Horror Picture Show, has died at the age of 80.

A teenager has been sentenced to life in prison after pleading guilty on Wednesday to the 2022 murder of his 10-year-old cousin in Wisconsin.

The breach occurred amid a spate of hacks directed at PLCs in Minnesota and at least six other states

Some possible contenders include conservative commentator Scott Jennings and Katie Miller, the wife of White House official Stephen Miller

Those convicted of a certain type of manslaughter will no longer be eligible for early release, including Albert Bowers and Jessie Cole

Luis Ortiz and Joanna Maria Iniguez allege in a lawsuit that security guards removed them from the stadium after they objected to how two other fans who ran onto the field were treated

Jared Bridegan was shot in 2022 after he got out of his SUV to remove a tire from a road in Jacksonville Beach

Six of Shawanda Alston’s seven children were home at the time of the shooting

A Peruvian court has convicted four men of murder-for-hire and sentenced them to between 15 and 35 years in prison for the 2023 killing of an Indigenous Kichwa leader and rainforest defender

The Small Business Administration is proposing a rule that would massively increase the cap at which companies are considered ‘small’ – with some allowed to make over $1 billion

This latest legal battle follows a Supreme Court procedural ruling favoring Trump just two days earlier