It's tomato season and Lidia is harvesting on farms in California's Central Valley. Read More

Pope Leo XIV met Monday with one of the most prominent advocates for greater LGBTQ+ inclusion in the Catholic Church and encouraged his ministry, sending a strong signal of welcome in the early months of his pontificate. Read More

A 25-year-old man who police allege forced his way into a home during the night in Welland, Ont., and violently sexually assaulted a toddler inside has been arrested and charged — and neighbours and friends say they are outraged that the man had been released from jail in March from a previous child sex offence. Read More

Fierce Mediterranean winds forced a Gaza-bound flotilla carrying humanitarian aid and hundreds of activists, including environmental campaigner Greta Thunberg, to return to Barcelona, organizers said on Monday. Read More

John Hutton starts every White House portrait with an egg-shaped frame. Read More

Desperate Afghans clawed through rubble in search of missing loved ones after a strong earthquake killed some 800 people and injured more than 2,500 in eastern Afghanistan, according to figures provided Monday by the Taliban government. Read More

A man found dead in a pool of blood is being investigated as a homicide at the annual Burning Man art and music festival in the northwestern Nevada desert, authorities say. Read More

Ontario is removing interprovincial barriers for workers in regulated professions, allowing them greater mobility when searching for work across the country, the province said Monday. Read More

A plane carrying EU chief Ursula von der Leyen was hit by GPS jamming as it readied to land in Bulgaria and Russia was suspected to be behind the incident, the European Commission said Monday. Read More

Since the fall of Bashar Assad's government in December, some 850,000 Syrian refugees have returned home from neighboring countries and the figure could reach 1 million in the coming weeks, a top official with the U.N. refugee agency said Monday. Read More

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Last Tuesday, thousands of Israelis took to the streets, blocking highways and setting tires on fire, to pressure the government to reach a deal with Hamas. Read More

After forcing the Liberals to scrap the consumer carbon tax earlier this year, Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre pledged to get rid of "carbon tax 2.0." Read More

In August, Australia’s chief spy-catcher, Mike Burgess, revealed a startling figure: foreign espionage drained the country of an astounding $12.5 billion in the past year. Read More

If you’re a fellow fan of the comedian/writer/director/producer/action star Bob Odenkirk, you might already have gone to the theatres to see him in Nobody 2, the new sequel to his surprise 2021 hit Nobody. At any rate I’m keeping one eye on the box office numbers. As much as I love Odenkirk as a performer and writer, I’m also just fascinated by his career in itself, which is … Read More

Rudy Giuliani is recovering from a fractured vertebrae and other injuries following a car crash in New Hampshire, a spokesperson for the former New York City mayor said Sunday. Read More

A Liberal MP has issued a call to action amid growing antisemitism across Canada, highlighting the recent unprovoked attack on a Jewish woman shopping for groceries in Ottawa last week. Read More

Daniel Buchardt was about seven years into a sales career when he looked around the insurance company he worked for and realized that not only did the job feel monotonous, he also wasn't very interested in it. Read More

Hamas’s chief propagandist, Hudahaifa Kahlout, or Abu Obeida, was killed in a targeted killing on Saturday by the Israel Defence Forces and the Shin Bet security agency, Defence Minister Israel Katz said on Sunday. Read More

A pig that jumped a tall fence and escaped its deadly fate at a slaughterhouse more than three decades ago captured the imagination once again on Friday after an improved statue of the rebel was unveiled in the same central Alberta city where the ham was once on the lam. Read More

A disc jockey playing alt-rock tunes on Edmonton's airwaves on a late Sunday night introduces herself and jokes about being regularly asked about firmware updates. Read More

The Houthi prime minister in Yemen, Ahmed al-Rahawi, and several of his Cabinet members were slain in an Israeli airstrike on the capital city of Sanaa on Aug. 28, the Israel Defence Forces and the Iranian-backed group confirmed on Saturday. Read More

Greta Thunberg and hundreds of other anti-Israel activists were expected to depart from Spain and other countries on Sunday in what Reuters described as the largest Gaza flotilla to date, in an attempt to break Israel’s blockade of the Strip. Read More

Israeli Deputy Foreign Minister Sharren Haskel on Saturday urged the Canadian government to “do more to eliminate evil” antisemitic crimes, speaking in the wake of the police-confirmed hate-driven stabbing of a Jewish woman in Ottawa earlier in the week. Read More