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Rates of intimate partner violence involving a firearm increased significantly between 2010 and 2024, according to new research released by Statistics Canada Wednesday.

Toronto Raptors fans had to temper their excitement Thursday after a proposed trade to bring back superstar Kawhi Leonard was put on hold due to the NBA's ongoing investigation into whether the Los Angeles Clippers broke the league's salary cap rules. Leonard could potentially be forced to sit out the upcoming NBA season.

The company's other boat Top Ocean sank on the morning of June 28 with 10 people on board. Transport Canada says the company's 11-metre sister vessel is a pleasure craft being operated as a commercial passenger boat.

Atlantic Shark Institute executive director Jon Dodd tells The National about the moment he captured a rare close up of a great white shark in South Kingstown, Rhode Island.

Federal agents did not have body-worn cameras when a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer fatally shot a Mexican homebuilder who was driving a work van they were trying to pull over in Houston, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security said Thursday.

England defender Jarell Quansah got a two-match suspension after getting a red card at the World Cup while U.S. striker Folarin Balogun avoided an immediate ban, spurring questions from former international referees.

Susan Thiele says she's terrified and she wants some sort of replacement for the regional hospital six blocks from her home in Dauphin, Man., after it was closed by flooding that took out its power and destroyed its HVAC system.

Eight men were indicted on murder and terrorism conspiracy charges Thursday for their alleged roles in a thwarted drone and sniper attack on the UFC cage-fighting show staged at the White House in June.

Officials at Montreal's Trudeau airport were warning of operational delays Thursday evening after an incident involving an Air Canada aircraft resulted in a temporary runway closure.

Zelensky has long pleaded for faster supplies of interceptors capable of bringing down Russian ballistic missiles

Federal prosecutors allege the group planned to murder Trump, Vance, Netanyahu, Musk and ‘other high value targets’ at the event

Carney told reporters at the NATO summit that Iran had acted ‘irresponsibly’ and described the U.S. response as ‘appropriate’

Premium cabins now generate a disproportionate share of revenue compared with the space they take up on commercial aircrafts

Canada will not let Russian athletes be part of any domestic sports events funded by Ottawa, says Secretary of State for Sport

Inflationary pressures weighing on industry and consumers is set to continue

Subsidized palm-based biodiesel was introduced in July with the goal of reducing country’s need for energy imports

A contributing author to the Charter, Goldenberg spent a decade as a senior policy adviser to the former prime minister before ultimately being named his chief of staff

Trump has claimed without substantiation that vandals dumped fertilizer into the pool and slashed the coating with a box cutter

Over half of vent mollusks face extinction due to mining operations in their habitat

Race organizers say the event is 'used as the first major indicator of whether a candidate has the physical and mental aptitude to complete the legendary Selection course.'

A placard in the gift box says this was the first type of revolver manufactured in Turkey in the 1990s and that the commemorative firearms were made by Turkish firm MKE.

The United States launched new airstrikes against Iran early Thursday, and Tehran responded by targeting U.S.-allied Mideast countries in an exchange of fire.

Anand met with Saudi Arabia's foreign minister Thursday and she says Canada stands alongside Persian Gulf countries as Iran lashes out against them.

Love them or hate them, anchovies could end up making your grocery bill more expensive because of its use in fishmeal used for seafood and livestock feed.

'Following the terrible burglary the museum suffered, it is impossible to carry on as if nothing had happened. The investigation is ongoing,' the museum said in a statement.

Gas prices are likely going to tick up once again in Canada, according to an analyst, as a signed peace agreement between the U.S. and Iran appears to be unravelling.

The aircraft was observed on radar rapidly descending with a heading change before radar and communication were lost, Pakistan aviation authorities said.

Following Russia's invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, the ROC was suspended in October 2023 for recognizing regional Olympic councils in Russian-occupied parts of Ukraine.

NATO countries are bolstering their militaries after U.S. President Donald Trump "won the argument" on defence spending, Prime Minister Mark Carney said Wednesday.

Advancements in renewable energy are paving the way for a new climate politics. The environmentalist Bill McKibben articulates some of the possibilities in this new era of energy abundance.

Penn Station needs massive fixes, but the Trump administration is going about it all wrong.

The blaze in Andalusia prompted a major containment operation. Heat waves across Europe this summer have raised the risk of such fires, forecasters say.

Officials say agents believed a passenger resembled one suspect, but the encounter quickly escalated into a fatal shooting.

The firings and a resignation render the Election Assistance Commission useless. The moves come as President Trump seeks to impose control over how ballots will be counted in the midterms.

Eric Schmitt, a New York Times National Security correspondent, analyzes recent skirmishes between the U.S. and Iran and whether they threaten ongoing negotiations for a peace deal.

Mr. Araujo was a father, a husband and a business owner who had moved to the United States 35 years ago from Mexico.

The administration appears to be reverting to an all-stick, no-carrot approach. But it has yet to answer why it believes economic warfare and bombing will yield a different result this time.

The German automaker has struggled to compete with fast-growing Chinese companies that offer more affordable and sophisticated electric vehicles.

Experts said the lack of such capabilities poses a potential risk when the president travels overseas. The White House defended the aircraft’s safety.

Renewed escalation in the U.S.-Iran war could complicate matters and further cloud the outlook, the IEA warned Friday.

A bidding war has broken out for budget carrier easyJet after Apollo and Castlelake have both submitted takeover offers.

The U.S. will engage in "technical talks" with Iran, while markets await the U.S. debut of SK Hynix.

As global chip giant SK Hynix makes its Nasdaq debut Friday, the listing serves as a major test of whether the company can shed its long standing "Korea Discount." 

India has signed a third pact for the supply of missiles in the Indo-Pacific region as countries in the region grow wary of China's growing assertion.

The ceasefire signed last month came under serious strain in recent days as the U.S. and Iranian forces exchanged attacks for consecutive days this week.

Temasek's investment in the now-bankrupt FTX cryptocurrency exchange led to a writedown of $275 million in 2022, drawing much local criticism.

Fidji Simo stepped away from OpenAI in April for a medical leave, says she now has to focus on recovery.

Steve Sedgwick goes behind the scenes of NATO's dramatic 48 hours, where Trump's changing tone reshaped diplomacy and left allies guessing.

The three members of a task force advising the Fed on artificial intelligence are strong proponents of the technology.

After President Donald Trump declared the collapse of a preliminary peace agreement on Wednesday, the U.S. and Iran traded renewed airstrikes.

Doctors and Nurses on the front lines of the Democratic Republic of Congo’s Ebola response have reached a breaking point.

For a second straight day, the U.S. military attacked Iranian targets overnight and Iran struck back, targeting U.S. bases in Bahrain and Kuwait.

The president embraced the alliance in a meeting Wednesday, extolling member nations’ defense spending and saying nothing about the Danish territory, officials said.

Some officials said the outpouring of grief was intended to show the continuing close ties between Iraq and Iran despite U.S. efforts to hold sway in Baghdad.

The airline says a bid from US firm Apollo has trumped a previous potential takeover offer from Castlelake.

Teenage footballer Taylor Coulter needed hospital treatment after being injected by a stranger in the Spanish resort of Magaluf.

Ann Widdecombe became a dominant pro-Brexit voice later in her career.

The BBC looks at the growing trend of people swapping homes to cut holiday costs.

A leading figure on the right of British politics who reinvented herself as a reality TV star.

The Ministry of Justice disputes the figure, saying its own review puts the number of un-monitored individuals at 5,450.

The investigation is looking into donations made to Reform UK by the mother of the convicted fraudster George Cottrell, according to the Times.

The former mayor of Greater Manchester is unopposed in the race to replace Sir Keir Starmer.

Before Spain's World Cup quarter-final against Belgium, Guillem Balague talks to Spain boss Luis de la Fuente about their identity and Lamine Yamal.

England winger Anthony Gordon says being sworn at by Mexico boss Javier Aguirre in a viral moment of their World Cup match was "just a bit of fun".

Everyone should be ‘mindful of their water use’ amid the heatwave, an Environment Agency chief has said

The BBC radio show superfan recorded her lines in secret

Speculation has been mounting that the Duke’s family will join him despite security row

A new AP-NORC poll finds that many Jewish Americans feel unsafe in the United States, with a majority saying they feel less safe than they did before Hamas’ Oct. 7, 2023, attack on Israel

At least 11 people have died and 19 are missing after a wildfire took hold in Almería province

Professor Sir Chris Whitty said any exercise is better than none and urged those who are sedentary or working from home to become more active

Xavier Niel’s family investment vehicle Vega has agreed to acquire an approximately 16.2% shareholding from E&.

Mr Farage is facing scrutiny over a £5m gift from a crypto billionaire and a £1m donation from convicted fraudster George Cottrell’s mother

US president says ceasefire ‘over’ following strikes on ships in Strait of Hormuz

As Nigel Farage accuses his opponents of ‘running away’ from an election, and the main parties say his attempt to distract from scrutiny of his finances has descended into farce, chief political commentator John Rentoul is here to answer your questions on a contest that’s dividing Westminster