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A 30-something Donald Trump and a 70-ish Richard Nixon struck up a decade-long correspondence in the 1980s that meandered from football and real estate to Vietnam and media strategy.

President Donald Trump's nominee to lead the U.S. Department of Homeland Security denied allegations Wednesday that he molded intelligence reports to suit the administration, telling a Senate committee that a recent whistleblower's report is "patently false."

An investigation into one of the province's hardest-hit long-term care homes, CHSLD Herron, has concluded it suffered from "organizational negligence." The report was released alongside another into CHSLD Sainte-Dorothée, which was also ravaged by COVID-19. 

Airbnb is launching a new program for cities and tourist organizations aimed at helping them ensure compliance with local rules.

Richard Dewey with Ocean Networks Canada explains how particulate matter from burning forests actually helps, rather than harms, ocean ecosystems.

The CEO of Aurora Cannabis plans to overhaul the company after massive losses during the last fiscal year.

A grand jury in Kentucky is scheduled to present its findings to a judge Wednesday in the fatal shooting of Breonna Taylor, a Black EMT, at the hands of police officers who burst into her home using a no-knock warrant on the night of March 13.

A Kentucky grand jury has indicted one police officer, Brett Hankison, on criminal charges six months after Black EMT Breonna Taylor was fatally shot by police in Louisville, Ky.

A Kentucky grand jury on Wednesday indicted a single police officer for shooting into neighbouring apartments but did not move forward with charges against any officers for their role in Breonna Taylor's death.

A Kentucky grand jury on Wednesday indicted a single police officer for shooting into neighbouring apartments but did not move forward with charges against any officers for their role in Breonna Taylor's death.

The Liberal government is promising to extend emergency support for Canadians hit by the COVID-19 crisis while building a more resilient economy that empowers women, fights climate change and addresses systemic racism.

The federal Conservatives are looking for signs that the Liberal government will take steps to rein in spending and unite Canadians in today's speech from the throne.

After two days of hearing arguments for and against the federal government's carbon tax, the Supreme Court of Canada adjourned today without a decision.

Indigenous leaders, special interest groups and other provinces will have their say today in trying to convince the Supreme Court whether or not the national price on pollution is constitutional.

The federal ethics watchdog has dismissed Conservative allegations of conflict of interest involving Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's chief of staff and her husband.

Thousands of people are expected to pay their respects at the Supreme Court to the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who was hailed by Chief Justice John Roberts as a trailblazing jurist who "will live on in what she did to improve the law."

Thousands of people are expected to pay their respects at the Supreme Court to the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, leader of the court's liberal bloc and a feminist icon who died last week.

The majority of a 470-strong pod of pilot whales found stranded off Australia's remote southern coast has died, officials said on Wednesday, as rescuers struggled in freezing waters and fading light to free those still alive.

The recent surge in coronavirus cases is sparking debate around what the appropriate response should be and questions about how to keep the economy open while reducing community spread of the virus. 

The recent surge in COVID-19 is sparking debate around what the appropriate response is to a coronavirus second wave and how to keep the economy open while reducing community spread of the virus.  

A Dutch startup has created a biodegradable "living coffin" made of a fungus instead of wood that it says can convert a decomposing human body into key nutrients for plants.

The founders of the world-renowned Sooke Harbour House hotel have won a resounding victory in their battle to wrest control of their beloved business from a man a judge described as a "garden-variety bully."

When Derek and Emilie Muth left Calgary to adopt their daughter Zoe in Nigeria last fall, they had no idea that nearly a year later — after a terrifying medical ordeal and the onset of a global pandemic — they'd still be stuck abroad with no word on when they can come home.

The German hospital treating Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny for poisoning said Wednesday that his condition improved enough for him to be released, and suggested a "complete recovery" from the nerve agent was possible.

The former hurricane Teddy arrived in Nova Scotia as a post-tropical storm on Wednesday morning, bringing plenty of wind and rain for the province but paling in comparison to infamous past storms.

Teddy has arrived in Nova Scotia as a post-tropical storm, bringing plenty of wind and rain for the province on Wednesday.

A Ridgetown woman thinks she may have seen the flares fired by Reginald Fisher the night he vanished on Lake Erie, but when she reported it to the Coast Guard it was dismissed because an official thought what she saw was another rescue operation taking place simultaneously, further out on Lake Erie.

A Ridgetown woman thinks she may have seen the flares fired by Reginald Fisher the night he vanished on Lake Erie, but when she reported it to the Coast Guard, it was dismissed because an official thought what she saw was another rescue operation taking place simultaneously, farther out on Lake Erie.

Nova Scotia's film industry is enjoying a rare boom this fall and those in the business give much of the credit to this province's positive COVID-19 numbers.

A Nova Scotia First Nation launched its own self-regulated lobster fishery last week, sparking renewed tensions with non-Indigenous commercial fishermen, protests and arrests. Here's what's behind it all.

CBC News has dug deep into the data on over 120,000 COVID-19 cases collected by the Public Health Agency of Canada to examine how the illness affects the young, the elderly, men and women in order to better understand what's most likely to land you in hospital — or worse.

Prime ministers rarely ask the television networks for time to address the nation, and when they do it is not always for the most serious reasons — for Lester B. Pearson in 1968, Paul Martin in 2005 and Stephen Harper in 2008, extraordinary appeals were delivered to Canadians only because a minority government was facing possible defeat.

Prime ministers rarely ask the television networks for time to address the nation, and when they do it is not always for the most serious reasons — for Lester B. Pearson in 1968, Paul Martin in 2005 and Stephen Harper in 2008, extraordinary appeals were delivered to Canadians only because a minority government was facing possible defeat.

The surge in Quebec coronavirus infections is different from the first wave this past spring, and the key question this fall is: how do you keep things open while COVID-19 is spreading in the community? 

The First Nation community operating a new, self-regulated lobster fishery in Nova Scotia says its harvesting regulations rival and may even exceed the standards of the Department of Fisheries and Oceans.

A Nova Scotia First Nation launched its own self-regulated lobster fishery last week, sparking renewed tensions with non-Indigenous commercial fishermen, protests and arrests. Here's what's behind it all.

With Ontario reporting its highest daily number of COVID-19 cases since early May, there are mounting calls for the government to take more actions to slow the spread of the virus now, in an effort to avoid a full-scale lockdown later.

When the pandemic thrust most school, work and services online, it further highlighted not just how essential the internet has become but also the urban-rural divide around access. 

A state funeral will be held on Oct. 6 to honour former prime minister John Turner, who died on Sept. 19 at the age of 91.

U.S. President Donald Trump issued an executive order on Tuesday that he said would ban the military, government contractors and federal grantees from some diversity training.

Health officials paint worsening picture of COVID-19 in Canada. Plus, what Canadians want in the throne speech.

Vanessa Bryant, the widow of basketball star Kobe Bryant, has filed a lawsuit against the Los Angeles County sheriff claiming deputies shared unauthorized photos of the crash that killed her husband, their 13-year-old daughter and seven others.

The chief provincial health officer in B.C. says she's received death threats during the COVID-19 pandemic.

The reasons for academic dishonesty have not suddenly changed, but the environment has, say post-secondary teachers Veselin Jungic, Andie Burazin and Miroslav Lovric.

Justin Trudeau's Liberal government will lay out its priorities for its upcoming term in office in Wednesday's throne speech, followed by a rare address to the nation Wednesday evening from the prime minister. CBC News will have special coverage from Parliament Hill in Ottawa starting at 1:30 p.m. ET.

Lawyers representing the federal and some provincial governments made their cases before Canada's highest court today for keeping or killing the carbon tax — the cornerstone of the Trudeau government's climate agenda.