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The fire was burning in a populated — but not densely so — unincorporated part of Riverside County, in a recreational area near the city of Moreno Valley, which has a population of roughly 200,000.

Debbie Marland, owner of Sunshine Farms, tells The National about the moment Chesney the kangaroo escaped and spent three days on the run after being spooked by hunting dogs.

The White House released a budget on Friday, in which the Trump administration requested funds for the ⁠Federal Bureau ⁠of Prisons to cover the ‌first-year costs of rebuilding Alcatraz into "a state-of-the-art secure prison facility."

After the author and "Brat Pack" actor's wife and son confronted him with the fact he didn't have friends anymore, McCarthy crisscrossed the country to visit old friends and ask strangers whether friendships between men are in trouble.

The federal health regulator said Friday its assessment found no evidence of a machine malfunction and the equipment performed as expected, wrote Health Canada spokesperson Mark Johnson in an emailed statement.

The Toronto Tempo selected Julie Allemand with their first pick of the WNBA expansion draft on Friday.

Canada's Matt Dunstone will be playing for a gold medal on Saturday at the world men's curling championship in Ogden, Utah. The Winnipeg-based team defeated Scotland 9-7 in a thrilling semifinal Friday evening, scoring a deuce in the ninth to go ahead 8-7 and then stealing one in the 10th to beat Ross Whyte's squad.

Although Chinese tariffs on Canadian pork products remain in place after a visit to China by Finance Minister François-Philippe Champagne, he says the important task is relationship-building — and it's not realistic to expect immediate solutions.

From the coalfields of northern England to the Arctic snows and the steaming jungles of Brazil, diamond hunter and scholar Graham Pearson has carved a name for himself that now lives on in rock.

Canadian border agents seized 70 bricks from a truck carrying a load declared as produce that was destined for Calgary.

The Tempo came away from Friday’s expansion draft with a guard-heavy group headlined by a couple of picks who seem to fit expectations perfectly.

The jersey trade outside Café Diplomatico on Saturday follows Italy's loss to Bosnia-Herzegovina earlier this week.

Allemand, a five-foot-eight guard, averaged 5.5 points and 4.7 assists for the Los Angeles Sparks last season.

With the departure of New Democratic MPP Doly Begum to run for the federal Liberals, Ford has been closely watching developments in the riding.

In the first postpandemic mission to Cuba, a group of Jewish-Canadians brought supplies, support — and baseball gear.

The nation-wide recall affects 30 poultry products, the health agency said.

The alert for Toronto advises of up to 40 millimetres of rainfall and thunderstorms. Visibility on roads could be suddenly reduced by pooling water.

The 32-year-old appeared in court Thursday on nine terrorism charges, such as assault causing actual bodily harm.

"It's very understandable that people are concerned," Alto's CEO said. "We don't have all the answers."

In the coming days, astronauts on the mission are set to witness something that very few have seen before: the moon’s far side

The country is now forced to reconsider its long-term economic plans, which were built on a promise of peace

There are no end of players now facing the pressure of winning the Masters

Candlelit service inside Colosseum warns world leaders that their decisions will one day be judged by God

Cuba’s government said it will release 2,010 prisoners but it was not clear how many were released on Friday or how many were political prisoners

It’s a sign that drugs continue to move easily through the U.S., despite promises by the Trump administration

Sudden availability of so many cheap versions has raised concerns among health care professionals about malpractice and misuse of the drugs

The White House’s budget submissions are discrete glimpses of presidents’ visions, statements of their priorities, and catalogues of their proposals

A large-scale daytime Russian strike hit Ukraine on Friday, in what President Volodymyr Zelensky denounced as an "Easter escalation."

Quakes in the region have caused thousands of deaths in recent years

Rescues and medical emergencies are commonplace on Mount Everest. In October of last year, more than 350 climbers were rescued after becoming trapped in a freak storm.

One fighter jet was shot down in Iran. A U.S. crew member from that plane was rescued, but a second was missing, and a U.S. military search-and-rescue operation was underway.

Tehran has kept the pressure on Israel and its Gulf Arab neighbors, despite U.S. and Israeli insistence that Iran’s military capabilities have been all but destroyed.

Kenya's Directorate of Criminal Investigations says the 32-year-old appeared in court Thursday on nine terrorism charges, such as assault causing actual bodily harm.

The translunar ignition came 25 hours after liftoff, putting the three Americans and one Canadian on course for a lunar fly-around early next week.

Another jump in the price of gasoline has heightened the debate over whether the provincial and federal governments should provide some tax relief for drivers.

The EU is asking its member states to implement the International Energy Agency’s 10-point plan to reduce global demand for oil, Dan Jørgensen, the EU’s energy commissioner said.

Convicted of violating sanctions on Iran and awaiting a decision on his deportation, Amin Yousefijam has taken the government to court over the matter.

It was president's first address on the war and it comes at a pivotal moment at home and abroad as he faces mounting questions about the costs, rationale and objectives of the war.

The newly announced sanctions relief is a strong signal that the U.S. recognizes Delcy Rodríguez as a legitimate authority in Venezuela ever since the U.S. military operation.

The convicted sex offender gave Anil Ambani information on appointments and foreign policy. Some seemed prescient, though there was no evidence he was close to the administration.

Immigration lawyers and former federal officials say the case of Salah Sarsour echoes those against other pro-Palestinian activists.

The memorandum calls for paying employees at the Coast Guard, Federal Emergency Management Agency and Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency who have gone without pay during a record-long shutdown.

With the midterms approaching, the president may be running out of time to get new cabinet members confirmed without bipartisan support.

The pictures were released on the third day of the first mission since 1972 to send people around the moon.

Surging gasoline prices in the Philippines have forced some people to cancel or scale back the Visita Iglesia, a Holy Week tradition in which Catholics travel to seven churches.

An F-15E Strike Eagle was lost to enemy fire and an A-10 Warthog crashed in the Persian Gulf region on Friday, officials said. A rescue helicopter was also fired upon.

Payrolls expanded and unemployment dropped last month after a health care strike ended and a harsh winter abated.

Two men have been arrested in connection to a shooting on Wednesday that killed an infant. One was charged with murder, attempted murder and assault.

Reports cast doubt on how close the United States is to destroying Iran’s missile capability, a key goal in the war.

OpenAI President Greg Brockman will oversee product in Simo's absence.

Over 10 months after shelling out an eye-popping $6.4 billion for Jony Ive's nascent devices startup, OpenAI announced it's buying media company TBPN.

It is unclear if the plane was shot down or went down for another reason.

The threat comes a day after he said in a nationwide address that the U.S. military will be hitting Tehran "extremely hard" for the next two or three weeks.

Nonfarm payrolls were expected to increase by 59,000 in March, with the unemployment rate holding at 4.4%.

A year after his "liberation day," Trump's trade war has reshaped how companies in industries such as retail and autos are modeling economic and policy risk.

South Korea's Kospi led gains in the region while Japan's Nikkei 225 also opened higher. The Australian and Hong Kong markets were closed for the Easter weekend.

Microsoft said it plans to invest $10 billion in Japan between 2026 and 2029 to build AI infrastructure.

Chinese chip companies have benefited from strong domestic demand for AI as U.S. tech curbs have bolstered local firms.

President Trump called Tiger Woods a close friend after the golfer's auto crash in Jupiter, Fla., last week. Woods is dating the ex-wife of Donald Trump Jr.

An F-15 fighter jet and an A-10 attack plane were lost to hostile fire. Two search-and-rescue helicopters also were hit, injuring the crews, before safely returning to their base, officials said.

Some Trump aides and supporters cloak the war on Iran in religious terms, but the Chicago-born pope said that God “does not listen to the prayers of those who wage war.”

Ukraine’s Emergency Services posted images of rescue workers trying to save the animals — in one instance administering CPR to a dog — at the clinic in Chabany.

The move, described by the communist government as a “humanitarian and sovereign gesture,” comes as the U.S. enforces a crippling oil blockade on the island.

The president says Iran’s remaining leaders are more reasonable. But assassinations have left in place an emboldened government driving a hard bargain, officials say.

Britain’s Keir Starmer hosts a meeting of world leaders for talks on the waterway amid mounting pressure from the Trump administration to join the Iran war.

Sexual violence is a widespread weapon of war in Sudan. “Survivors frequently and clearly identified the perpetrators as RSF fighters,” Doctors Without Borders says.

People broke matzoh, read from the Haggadah and sang — with no need to worry about when the next air raid siren might sound.

As Iran’s retaliatory attacks hit regional centers of commerce, such as Dubai, the majority of the deaths have been among migrant workers who could not afford to flee.

Gas is being stolen, and station workers in Bangladesh, Pakistan and India have been killed over shortages and high prices. Unrest is set to worsen the longer the war lasts.

A former US marine tells the BBC the priority of any recovery team would be to look for signs of life.

The downing of a US fighter jet in Iran and the search for its pilot dominates Saturday's papers.

People struggling to conceive say friends and family often make well-meaning but insensitive comments about their infertility.

PowerWash Simulator 2 has been nominated for two Bafta Games Awards - but why have mundane job games become so popular?

How we travel to work in cities might be changing as e-scooter and e-bike fares become cheaper than traditional public transport.

The age at which people can start receiving the state pension is going up in stages over the next two years.

As war drives up gas and fuel prices, Europeans turn again to the issue of energy independence.

Hungary is going to the polls in nine days - after 16 years in power, can Viktor Orban be unseated?

Four Hatzola ambulances were set alight in the car park of a synagogue in Golders Green in the early hours of 23 March.

The snap was taken aboard the Orion capsule by its commander, Reid Wiseman, as the crew head towards the Moon.

Iran shooting down two American military aircraft marks an exceedingly rare assault for the U.S. that has not happened in more than 20 years

Lauren Betts had 16 points and made a huge block late, and UCLA withstood a late charge by Texas for a 51-44 win to reach the women’s NCAA Tournament national championship game for the first time

In Tokyo, the birthplace of Japan’s popular Somei Yoshino cherry blossom variety, many of the trees planted during the country’s postwar advancement of the 1960s are now getting old and frail

Iran claims to have shot down two U.S military planes Friday in separate attacks with at least one service member still missing

A smoky and fast-growing wildfire in Southern California has prompted multiple evacuation orders and warnings

Shaun M Stebbins, 43, was arrested Sunday and faces a slew of charges including aggravated sexual assault of a victim under 13

Ta’Niya Latson scored 16 and Agot Makeer added 14 points and South Carolina played stifling defense to beat UConn 62-48 on Friday night, ending the Huskies’ 54-game winning streak and advancing to the women’s NCAA Tournament championship game

Police say a second suspect in the stray-bullet killing of a 7-month-old baby on a Brooklyn street has been arrested in Pennsylvania

Flavor Flav was among the celebrities in attendance at the women’s Final Four

Death tolls from the war as reported by countries as of April 3