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A lawyer for former U.S. president Donald Trump said Thursday he's been told that Trump has been indicted in New York on charges involving payments made during the 2016 presidential campaign to silence claims of an extramarital sexual encounter.

A Manhattan grand jury on Thursday voted to indict Donald Trump on charges involving payments made during the 2016 presidential campaign to silence claims of two extramarital sexual encounters, the first criminal case against a former U.S. president and a jolt to his bid to retake the White House.

Dou Ban the panda decided to turn her normal bathing routine into what viewers are calling 'aqua yoga'. The panda's water sport was captured on the 'iPanda' video and streaming platform, which offers live broadcasts of the nature reserves in southwest China and is supported by the China Conservation and Research Center for the Giant Panda.

Nashville authorities released 911 calls Thursday that capture the terror inside an elementary school during the attack this week that left three children and three adults dead.

The appointment of an interim ethics commissioner who is also the sister-in-law of a cabinet minister has opposition parties crying foul.

Jared Skookum, 32, has been charged with manslaughter in the death of a woman from Watson Lake, Yukon, last year. It's the first charge of its kind in the territory, which is experiencing the highest rate of drug poisoning deaths in the country.

Lolita the orca will soon be swimming in her home waters of Puget Sound in Washington state after more than half a century in captivity.

The White House on Thursday said it has new evidence that Russia is looking again to North Korea for weapons to fuel the war in Ukraine, this time in a deal that would provide Pyongyang with needed food and other commodities in return.

The B.C. government has introduced legislation that will expand the use of the Civil Forfeiture Act to go after proceeds of laundered money in the province. The amendments to the act include the creation of unexplained wealth orders.

Four teens are dead and one is seriously injured after the car they were in blew a stop sign and crashed into a semi-trailer in western Manitoba on Wednesday night, RCMP say.

Four teens are dead and one is seriously injured after the car they were in blew a stop sign and crashed into a semi-trailer in southwestern Manitoba on Wednesday night, RCMP say.

After 13 months of fighting, the parents of λugʷaləs K'ala'ask Shaw have received a birth certificate that accurately represents the spelling of his name.

In this week's issue of our environment newsletter, we look at the steps taken every spring in Canada to protect migrating salamanders and what this week's federal budget promised on greening the electricity grid.

Their backgrounds vary: two friends who grew up together in Pakistan, an 18-year-old spending an evening with friends, a renowned photographer, gifted academics.

Their backgrounds vary: two friends who grew up together in Pakistan, an 18-year-old spending an evening with friends, a renowned photographer, gifted academics.

Seven dolphins are stuck in an ice-free area the size of a swimming pool just outside Dildo, N.L., on Thursday, as fisheries officials and volunteers attempt to relocate the pod.

Canadian-born Hollywood star Ryan Reynolds — one of the more prominent suitors reported to be interested in purchasing of the Ottawa Senators — is in the capital.

Canadian-born Hollywood star Ryan Reynolds — one of the people reported to be circling a purchase of the Ottawa Senators — is in the capital.

Yukon faces Canada's highest per capita death rate from illicit drugs, and First Nations in the territory say toxic drugs are disproportionately affecting their people. Two First Nations have declared states of emergency as their members overdose and die. 

The document also confirms the university president's account of specifying she has Mi'kmaw heritage.

The governor of Kentucky said on Thursday fatalities were expected after two U.S. Army Black Hawk helicopters crashed during a routine training mission over the state late on Wednesday.

The most recent population report from Statistics Canada shows a strangely paradoxical trend for P.E.I. It is easily the fastest-growing province in Canada, but at the same time people are leaving at a pace not seen since 1981.

Sara Carriere-Burns says she was at the Prince Albert Brewing Company on March 25, when one of the owners refused her service because of her cultural face tattoo.

The member for Whitehorse Centre informed the Legislative Assembly of their name change to Lane Tredger as well as their use of the pronouns they and them.

It doesn't have a name yet, but a new big-budget comedy series set in a fictional Nunavut community has gained the backing of Netflix, APTN and CBC.

Alberta's energy regulator has defended its finding that the province's largest recorded earthquake was caused by oilpatch activity, saying the pattern of temblors since last fall clearly points to a water disposal well even though there's no suggestion rules were flouted.

Colour analysis — which was called finding your colours in the 1980s — is a style guide that’s back in a big way on social media. 

Herring are spawning in an area off the coast of Vancouver Island where a spawn has never been recorded.

A retired priest accused of assaulting a First Nations girl at Manitoba residential school more than 50 years ago has been acquitted.

A retired priest accused of assaulting a First Nations girl at a Manitoba residential school more than 50 years ago has been acquitted.

The Rundle Women's Hockey League has attracted a wide mix of players from 18 to 70, many of whom have come to the sport later in life.

The Vatican formally rejected the Discovery Doctrine, which legitimized the colonial-era seizure of Native lands, Thursday after decades of Indigenous demands. The Vatican said the documents were manipulated by colonial powers.

Russia's top security agency says a reporter for the Wall Street Journal, Evan Gershkovich, has been arrested on espionage charges.

Commercial diving experts say the industry will be under water if Seneca College doesn't reverse its recent decision to cancel its diving program.

Prince Edward Island’s labour shortage — which is affecting every sector from health care to agriculture and small business — has emerged as a major issue ahead of the upcoming provincial election.

The independent commission tasked with examining the deadliest mass shooting in modern Canadian history is releasing its final report today, almost three years after the April 2020 tragedy.

After months of preparation, the Punk Rock Museum is set to open in Las Vegas on April 1. The museum's spokesperson is Canadian punk legend and former Hamiltonian Talli Osborne.

Grace Tompkins made a sweater of a Maud Lewis painting, and got a big response online.

After a series of underwhelming adaptations, the new Dungeons & Dragons film finds the magic formula with a story that embraces the absurdities of the popular game with wit and affection. 

France’s pension battle has become a war of attrition between the country’s unions and President Emmanuel Macron. Already, the biggest winner is France’s far right.

The deadly shooting in a Nashville grade school has sparked calls for a so-called red-flag law in Tennessee. But a proposed law in 2020 never made it out of committee. It's another example how the state has scrapped tighter gun laws and passed legislation that makes it easier to acquire weapons.

A ritualistic dishwashing competition at an Ottawa fire station last year escalated to unusual violence in the form of choking, and later that day a supervisor discouraged the victim — an openly non-binary rookie firefighter — from reporting the incident, two internal fire department investigations obtained by CBC have found.

Tuesday’s federal budget included a number of proposals aimed at improving air travel following a year of chaos at Canada’s airports. But advocates for both airlines and passengers are skeptical about the measures.

Two recent rulings against Dr. Tracy Hicks follow a long series of malpractice allegations made in court throughout the orthopedic surgeon's career.

Retired journalist Gilles Plante was diagnosed with Alzheimer's in 2017, and has faced the disease with the support of his wife, children's author Sheree Fitch.

If you bought a salad bowl for lunch in a compostable container, that greener choice may have come with a dash of “forever chemicals” called PFAS, a new study finds. Should you worry? Here’s a closer look.

Some former athletes say it's difficult to trust for-profit companies, hired to act as an independent third party to investigate safe sport complaints, because they're paid by the same national sport organizations they're tasked to investigate.

Bank of Canada deputy governor says the collapse of giant bank Credit Suisse was a "wake up call" for regulators around the world, causing them to brush off their contingency plans.

The federal government is deciding whether to restore millions of dollars in taxpayer funding to Hockey Canada after a nine-month freeze linked to its handling of a high-profile alleged sexual assault in 2018, CBC News has learned. 

The federal government is deciding whether to restore millions of dollars in taxpayer funding to Hockey Canada after a nine-month freeze linked to its handling of a high-profile alleged sexual assault in 2018, CBC News has learned.