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Palestinian witnesses said Israeli planes bombed two Hamas security positions on Friday. The Israeli military confirmed that it was attacking what it called "terror sites" in Gaza, hours after it said two rockets were launched from the enclave at the Tel Aviv area. 

David Sidoo, a prominent Vancouver businessman, has stepped aside from roles as CEO of two separate companies in the city after being charged in connection with a college admissions cheating scandal in the United States.

The impact of Boeing 737 Max jets being grounded is likely to last a while yet as one airline is telling its pilots it expects the disruption to last into April at least.

The federal government will establish personalized accounts to help Canadians pay for lifelong learning and skills development in next week’s budget, CBC News has learned.

Facebook and Instagram service have been restored, the company says, after a lengthy, widespread outage that it blames on a "server configuration change."

Google engineer Emma Haruka Iwao has broken the record for the most accurate value of pi by calculating an extra nine trillion digits, Google announced today, which is popularly known as Pi Day.

On the latest episode of The Pollcast, host Éric Grenier checks in on upcoming provincial elections in Alberta and P.E.I. with the CBC's Kim Trynacity and Kerry Campbell.

Corrupt former Hamilton cop Craig Ruthowsky sat in prison for seven months last year — yet he still made over $104,000 in 2018 and landed on the Sunshine List.

SNC-Lavalin approached Quebec's attorney-general last fall to enlist her help securing a deferred prosecution agreement from the federal government. This was part of a broader effort by the company to get the newly elected Coalition Avenir Québec government to take up its cause with Ottawa.

SNC-Lavalin approached Quebec's attorney-general last fall to enlist her help securing a deferred prosecution agreement from the federal government. This was part of a broader effort by the company to get the newly elected Coalition Avenir Québec government to take up its cause with Ottawa.

A new report out today published by the UN Environment Assembly says a damaging rise in Arctic temperatures is now likely inevitable, regardless of whether or not comments made in the 2015 Paris Agreement on climate change are met.

Three astronauts, including two who had their mission aborted last October when their Soyuz rocket malfunctioned, are heading to the International Space Station this afternoon.

Three astronauts, including two who had their mission aborted last October when their Soyuz rocket malfunctioned, are heading to the International Space Station.

Three astronauts, including two who had their mission aborted last October when their Soyuz rocket malfunctioned, have arrived at the International Space Station.

The U.S. college admissions scandal has triggered private litigation, accusing rich, well-connected parents of buying spots for their children at prestigious schools, and keeping children of less wealthy parents out.

The U.S. college admissions scandal has triggered private litigation, accusing rich, well-connected parents of buying spots for their children at prestigious schools, and keeping children of less wealthy parents out.

The fruit-and-vegetable-heavy fare touted in the new federal food guide may be too expensive — or perhaps just not enticing enough — to easily form the basis of most Canadians' diets, a new report suggests.

The Liberal MP who triggered the sudden adjournment of an emergency meeting of the Commons justice committee Wednesday insists there's been no attempt by the government to cover up the SNC-Lavalin affair, and says it's time to turn the page on the controversy.

We’re putting your questions about the ongoing SNC-Lavalin scandal to our News Network panellists, lawyer Lee Akazaki and Martin Patriquin from iPolitics. Ask them in the chat.

Guest host Vassy Kapelos talks to Toronto Star columnist Tanya Talaga about a report out this week on the factors that led to 14-year-old Tina Fontaine's death in 2014, and how the federal government's Indigenous child welfare bill must seize the opportunity to prevent cases like Tina's from happening again.

The U.S. Senate was poised on Thursday to pass a proposal to terminate President Donald Trump's declaration of an emergency at the southern border, defying his threat to veto the measure and heavy lobbying of his fellow Republicans.

The U.S. Senate was poised on Thursday to pass a proposal to terminate President Donald Trump's declaration of an emergency at the southern border, defying his threat to veto the measure and heavy lobbying of his fellow Republicans.

The U.S. Senate voted Thursday to terminate President Donald Trump's declaration of an emergency at the southern border and will now send the legislation to Trump, who has vowed to veto the measure.

By using the techniques used to study 'Stone Age' humans, archeologists are making new discoveries about an endangered animal that's also good with stone tools — the sea otter.

People in the town and across Quebec were shocked after learning in January that footage from the Lac-Mégantic derailment and explosion that killed 47 people was used in the drama starring Sandra Bullock.

Hundreds of people were stranded in vehicles overnight in Montreal during a massive snowstorm in March 2017. The Quebec government has now reached a settlement in a class action brought by on behalf of people affected.

Search efforts were called off at the site of a school building that collapsed in the Nigerian city of Lagos, as rescuers were trying to find a register of children to work out how many have died.

Rescuers were trying to find a register of children to work out how many died in the school building collapse in the Nigerian city of Lagos, an emergency official said on Thursday. 

Empire actor Jussie Smollett, 36, has pleaded not guilty to charges he lied to police about being attacked in downtown Chicago a few weeks ago.

A judge is expected to be assigned to Jussie Smollett's disorderly conduct case when the Empire actor returns to a Chicago court Thursday, just days after lawyers on both sides agreed that cameras would be allowed in the courtroom.

As protesters gathered Wednesday in the neighbourhood where a disability group home was rejected by Weyburn, Sask., city council, relatives of the residents who would have lived there were coming terms with their frustration and disappointment.

A former British soldier is set to be prosecuted in connection with the deaths of two civil rights protesters in Northern Ireland more than 40 years ago, part of an event known as Bloody Sunday. 

After the federal government's announcement about a settlement in the case, CBC spoke to lawyer Bob Winogron about who's eligible, how they apply, and how long it will take.

A man has been arrested after a nurse was seriously injured in an attack Monday, allegedly by the husband of a patient, while she was working at the Dr.-Georges-L-Dumont University Hospital Centre in Moncton, N.B.

A man has been arrested after a nurse was seriously injured in an attack Monday, allegedly by the husband of a patient, while she was working at the Dr.-Georges-L-Dumont University Hospital Centre in Moncton, N.B.

A nurse was seriously injured in an attack Monday, allegedly by the husband of a patient, while working at the Dr.-Georges-L-Dumont University Hospital Centre in Moncton, N.B.

Two black boxes from the Boeing 737 Max airplane that crashed in Ethiopia has now arrived in Paris for expert analysis, as regulators around the world await word on whether it's safe to resume flying the jets.

Two black boxes from the Boeing 737 Max airplane that crashed in Ethiopia have arrived in France for expert analysis as regulators await word on whether it's safe to resume flying the jets, and family of the victims demand more transparency.

Two black boxes from the Boeing 737 Max airplane that crashed in Ethiopia have arrived in France for expert analysis as regulators await word on whether it's safe to resume flying the jets, and family of the victims demand more transparency.

Raymond Cormier says he didn't kill or sexually exploit Tina Fontaine, but admits he gave her cannabis, prompting a call from her family and a former grand chief to have him charged for trafficking an illicit substance to a minor.

Britain's Parliament voted Thursday to seek a delay of the country's departure from the European Union, a move that will likely avert a chaotic withdrawal on the scheduled exit date of March 29.

Britain's Parliament was due to vote on Thursday on whether to delay Brexit beyond March 29 and Prime Minister Theresa May prepared to push lawmakers to voteagain before then on her EU divorce deal, which they have twice rejected.

U.S. National Guard troops were using specialized vehicles with tank-like treads to rescue stranded drivers in Colorado in the wake of a massive late-winter storm that was expected to unleash heavy rain and snow on the Midwest plains on Thursday.

In a U.S. college system with a "steep prestige hierarchy," education experts say Americans are much more likely to identify closely with their schools than Canadians. Critics of the U.S. system say a national scam to secure elite schooling spots exposes a rigged playing field.

Two devastating crashes in less than six months for Boeing's brand-new version of the 737 have cast doubt on the iconic plane model — and have people asking expensive questions about the plane-maker's prospects.

In a U.S. college system with a "steep prestige hierarchy," education experts say Americans are much more likely to identify closely with their schools than Canadians. Critics of the U.S. system say a national scam to secure elite schooling spots exposes a rigged playing field.

The computer system that manages CPP payments was upgraded in 2009 - with one major flaw. An IT glitch prevented the government from chasing down people who owed $66 million in overpaid benefits. The problem has been fixed - a decade later - and some 15,000 people are again on the hook.

The NDP is looking to change the narrative in Quebec and is drawing inspiration from a left-wing, sovereigntist provincial party.

Now, Trudeau might not be a particularly inspiring, or even articulate fellow. His gurgly moralizing is aggravating. But a sinister, disgraced, subversive, corrupt criminal, as the opposition claims? One suspects Andrew Scheer doesn't actually believe that.

Canada's natural resources minister wants his American counterpart to step up and help on stalled pipelines, calling the long-delayed Keystone XL project "very important" to both countries.