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Canada's rugby sevens teams are taking home medals from the 2019 Pan Am Games, but the real takeaway from Lima for both men's and women's teams is that the next generation of players are ready for big international events. And that's good news with the Tokyo Olympics looming.

Upping a feud with an influential black lawmaker, U.S. President Donald Trump on Sunday assailed Rep. Elijah Cummings as a "racist" over the "rodent-infested mess" in his district while White House aides sought to downplay his comments as frustration over Democrats' unrelenting investigations.

A nationwide outage of the Canada Border Services Agency's primary inspection kiosks and NEXUS systems is resulting in serious delays for passengers arriving at Vancouver International Airport, as well as others.

Canada's women's K4 500-metre canoeing team brought home the country's first gold medal of the Pan American Games on Sunday.

In this week’s Canada Votes newsletter: Could the high cost of living be the ballot issue in 2019? Also: is the Bloc seeing a resurgence in Quebec? And when exactly is the election?

The U.S. presidential hopeful joined 15 Americans living with Type 1 diabetes as they purchased insulin from a Windsor, Ont., pharmacy Sunday for a fraction of the U.S. price.

The RCMP has hit the ground door knocking at every home and building in Fox Lake Cree Nation and Gillam, Man., as a Canadian military plane keeps watch from the sky in a nationwide search for two fugitives wanted for three homicides that occurred thousands of kilometres away.

As the nearly week-long search for Bryer Schmegelsky, 18, and Kam McLeod, 19, intensified Sunday, the RCMP said there had been no new sightings of the pair and no new information to indicate they have left the area.

Via Rail is looking for financial support to build dedicated rail lines that would increase the frequency of trips, cut travel times and ensure its trains will no longer have to work around freight schedules on borrowed tracks.

Alberta's amateur flying community is planning vigils to mark the loss of experienced instructor Allan Wood and student Adam Leinweber.

Russi Taylor, who gave voice to Minnie Mouse for more than three decades, has died at 75.

A New York father who left his one-year-old twins in the car while he worked an eight-hour shift told police, "I blanked out. My babies are dead. I killed my babies," prosecutors said Saturday.

Two hundred years after her birth, Queen Victoria still makes her mark in the United Kingdom as well as in Canada. Also, Queen Elizabeth delays leaving for her summer holiday as Britain gets a new prime minister.

In the last race of the aquatics world championships, Canada extended its national-record medal haul in the pool to eight. The team of Kylie Masse, Sydney Pickrem, Maggie MacNeil and Penny Oleksiak won bronze in the women's 4x100-metre medley relay on Sunday in Gwangju, Korea. 

A woman who was fired with cause for texting during a meeting and not being a "team player" has been awarded compensation for her seven years of service at the dental office she worked at.

A Russian group that monitors police arrests says nearly 1,400 people were detained in a police crackdown on an opposition protest in Moscow, the largest number of detentions at a protest in the Russian capital this decade.

A Russian group that monitors police arrests says nearly 1,400 people were detained in a police crackdown on an opposition protest in Moscow, the largest number of detentions at a protest in the Russian capital this decade.

Police in Hong Kong fired tear gas and rubber bullets repeatedly Sunday to drive back protesters blocking streets with road signs and umbrellas in another night of pitched battles in the semi-autonomous Chinese territory.

Police fired tear gas at protesters in Hong Kong on Sunday for the second night in a row in another escalation of weeks-long pro-democracy protests in the semi-autonomous Chinese territory.

A clearer picture of the nation's criminal underworld emerged this week, as Statistics Canada released detailed data on organized crime for the first time in a decade.

CBC's Marketplace rounds up the consumer and health news you need from the week, including a worldwide breast implant recall, parents raising safety concerns about child car seats and Beyond Meat's plant-based burger that's designed to taste just like beef.

Months before the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion project was greenlit a second time, the leadership of the new government-owned pipeline company approved $5 million in future bonuses for top executives to keep them onboard.

Somali-Canadian R&B songstress Amaal Nuux finds a balance between her traditional upbringing, social conscience and young womanhood in her new EP Black Dove

Tim Hortons is testing a vegan omelette with customers. If it's a hit, the product will join the growing number of plant-based fast food items being served up to meet a demand for less meat.

As the nationwide police search for B.C. homicide suspects Kam McLeod and Bryer Schmegelsky​​​​​​​ continues, CBC News is taking a retrospective look at several notable large-scale fugitive hunts from Canada's past.

As the nationwide police search for B.C. homicide suspects Kam McLeod and Bryer Schmegelsky​​​​​​​ continues, CBC News is taking a retrospective look at several notable large-scale fugitive hunts from Canada's past.

The federal New Democrats are promising to spend $15 billion to fight climate change and create 300,000 new jobs in the process. Is that doable?

Campaigns such as Dry January and Sober October promote abstinence from alcohol. The movement is gaining traction with young adults with campaigns such as Mindful Drinking and Sober Curious.

Ellie Black and her Canadian teammates are bringing home women's team silver medals from the Pan Am Games in Lima. While this medal win is special, Black says she's more concerned about how Lima can help her and her team prepare for the upcoming world championships in Germany — where they can forge their path to the Olympics.

U.S President Donald Trump's target in a series of tweets Saturday was Rep. Elijah Cummings, Democratic chairman of the House of Representatives oversight committee, who has called Trump a racist and sharply criticized his immigration policies.

Trump's target in a series of early morning tweets was U.S. Rep. Elijah Cummings, Democratic chairman of the House of Representatives oversight committee, who has called Trump a racist and sharply criticized his immigration policies.

The Transportation Safety Board of Canada (TSB) has deployed a team of investigators to the site of a seaplane crash that killed four people and injured five north of Vancouver Island.