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Palestinian militants fired a rocket into southern Israel for the first time in months on Monday, and Israeli fighter jets carried out a series of airstrikes early Tuesday in the southern Gaza Strip.

Palestinian militants fired a rocket into southern Israel for the first time in months on Monday, in a potentially major escalation after clashes at a sensitive holy site in Jerusalem and a wave of attacks and military raids elsewhere.

Cristiano Ronaldo took to social media on Monday to say one of his newborn twins has died.

Soccer star Cristiano Ronaldo took to social media on Monday to say one of his newborn twins has died.

Corey Cooke of London Pinball says his phone never stops ringing.

Sunwing Airlines travellers are taking to social media for information on their delayed flights, as the company struggles with a network-wide system issue.

Sunwing Airlines travellers are taking to social media for information on their delayed flights, as the company struggles with a network-wide system issue.

Twitter's board of directors says it adopted a so-called "poison pill" defense in order to protect the social media platform from coercive or unfair takeover tactics.

Hip hop artist Keith Grayson, who performed as DJ Kay Slay and worked with top stars, has died of complications from COVID-19.

Peres Jepchirchir celebrated the 50th anniversary of the Boston Marathon women's division by winning a see-saw sprint down Boylston Street on Monday as the race returned to its traditional Patriots' Day spot in the schedule for the first time since the start of the coronavirus pandemic.

Raptors rookie Scottie Barnes has been ruled out of Game 2 of Toronto's best-of-seven opening-round playoff series against the Philadelphia 76ers on Monday night.

Ontario is reporting 1,301 people hospitalized with COVID-19 on Monday as the province's pandemic advisory table says levels of infection may have crested but that might change following the Easter long weekend.

Thanks to a relief effort in Jasper, Ukrainians fleeing the Russian invasion are being welcomed with jobs, accommodations and kindness.

Infowars filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection as the website's founder and conspiracy theorist Alex Jones faces defamation lawsuits over his comments that the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting was a hoax.

All three people who died were elderly, had underlying diseases such as diabetes and hypertension and had not been vaccinated against the coronavirus, Health Commission inspector says.

A family in Thunder Bay, Ont., has been tapping a decades-old silver maple tree in their front yard each spring for the last four years. Now it's a trend across the neighbourhood.

A Manitoba man is suing pharmaceutical giant Bayer, claiming he was fired for refusing to provide proof of vaccination against COVID-19.

April 18 and 19 mark two years since a gunman, at times dressed as a police officer, killed neighbours and strangers during a 13-hour rampage.

The Nova Scotia government announced the Sandy Lake-Sackville River area last month as one of nine locations where development will be accelerated. Conservationists have been fighting for years to protect the unspoiled land west of Halifax.

While Newfoundland and Labrador prepares to accept Ukrainian refugees, two Cold War-era refugees recall what it was like to arrive in Gander while fleeing their home countries.

The bird's ravenous pecking has done so much damage to the 30-metre fir pole that's flown the Maple Leaf high over Baie-D'Urfé's Bertold Park since 1967 that municipal officials have no choice but to bring the pole down.

A truck driver says he was denied his day in court by a bad lawyer, then denied justice again by the insurance that's set up to compensate the public when a lawyer behaves badly.

A Brampton man who bought a 40-hectare farm in Caledon, Ont., two years ago says he's still waiting to move in because a tenant is refusing to leave — and he says the body that's supposed to rule on landlord-tenant disputes has been too slow to act.

The RCMP has reviewed more than 30,000 of its previous sexual assault investigations and has found "consistent deficiencies" in how they were handled — including some instances of investigators failing to interview victims and suspects.

It’s been a long journey from war-torn Ukraine to a quiet cottage community in western Manitoba, but Hanna Palamarchuk and Mykola Prysianzhnyi have finally made it. They not only have a safe place to live, they are starting new jobs.

Nearly two-thirds of Ukraine's children have been displaced, according to the United Nations. One social worker took dozens of of children in care with her when she fled Chernihiv. Others made their own way to a sanctuary in western Ukraine on their own.

Retired Canadian goalkeeper Stephanie Labbé talks with The National co-host Ian Hanomansing about mental health, winning Olympic gold and the future of women's soccer in Canada.

Toronto police are searching for a woman who allegedly pushed another woman onto the subway tracks at Bloor-Yonge Station Sunday evening.

Toronto police have made an arrest after a woman was pushed onto the subway tracks at Toronto's Bloor-Yonge station on the weekend. The woman survived.

Toronto police have made an arrest after a woman was pushed onto the subway tracks at Toronto's Bloor-Yonge station on the weekend. The woman survived.

Ben Isitt, a Victoria city councillor, is pushing for a referendum that would ask residents how they feel about free public transit. Isitt hopes B.C.'s capital will join roughly 100 municipalities worldwide that already offer free public transportation.

The cousins of Karanveer Sahota, the teen who died after he was attacked outside McNally High School on April 8, say he was a gentle boy who wanted to take care of his mother and little sister. 

Family and friends are mourning the loss of the visionary Arctic researcher and University of Manitoba professor David Barber.