Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum said she will pursue charges against a man who groped and attempted to kiss her as she was walking in the capital’s historical center on Tuesday. Read More

A UPS cargo plane with three crew members on board crashed shortly after take off Tuesday from Louisville International Airport in Kentucky, exploding into flames and sending a massive plume of black smoke over the area. Read More

OTTAWA — The Liberals’ newest addition to caucus, Chris d’Entremont, said on Wednesday that he was not “aligned” with his former leader Pierre Poilievre’s political ideals and hinted that other Conservatives may be following his example. Read More

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Are President Donald Trump’s emergency tariffs legal? We’re about to find out. Read More

The mayor of Toronto has made good on a promise she made to Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass. Read More

Early Tuesday, antisemitic vandals hit Kehillat Shaarei Torah, a synagogue in Toronto’s north end, for the 10th time in just over a year and a half. Read More

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As cases in which provincial legislators have deployed the override power of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms — the "notwithstanding clause" — have proliferated, so have defences of their doing so. Among the override’s most passionate defenders are lawyers and political scientists with expertise and prestige to support their arguments. Read More

Tuesday’s budget wasn’t like those of the high Trudeau years, encrusted with identity politics at every turn. But the spirit of the old regime lives on under Prime Minister Mark Carney, who has opted for a deficit of $78.3 billion along with the continuation of social justice programs and diversity mandates. Read More

An Ontario judge has sentenced two Indian immigrants to house arrest for running fraudulent truck driving schools that offered sub-standard training for newcomers from South Asia. Read More

Canada is not immune to the global rise of hate-motivated incidents. From vandalized places of worship to online harassment, intimidation at our universities/colleges, and public displays of extremist symbols, these are not isolated acts. They are part of a growing pattern that threatens the safety and cohesion of our country. Read More

Matlock has achieved a rare feat for a TV reboot — it has charmed both TV critics and viewers in its first season. The legal drama is a gender-swapped take on the original show, which starred Andy Griffith and aired from 1986 to 1995. Read More

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Democrats reclaimed political momentum Tuesday with gubernatorial victories in Virginia and New Jersey, early signs that voter unease with the economy in President Donald Trump’s second term could give them a path to winning control of Congress next year. Read More

Lauren Graham said it herself at the Emmy Awards in September, when she and Gilmore Girls co-star Alexis Bledel reunited to pay tribute to the series. Read More

Prime Minister Mark Carney's government is proposing in the 2025 budget to follow through on a whopping investment to harness the power of artificial intelligence over the next five years. Read More

ALBA IULIA, Romania -- On the Mures river in central Romania, French armoured vehicles and Romanian trucks board a motorized floating bridge, part of a large military exercise to showcase NATO's ability to rapidly increase force levels on its eastern flank facing Russia. Read More

It may not be located at 1313 Mockingbird Lane, but a replica of the house from The Munsters looms large in Waxahachie, Texas. It belongs to Sandra McKee and her husband, Charles, who live next door and open the mansion up for private tours and murder mystery dinner parties. Read More

The federal budget announced Tuesday proposed a plan that would boost funding for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, and its French-language counterpart, Radio-Canada — and included in that plan was the possibility that Canada could participate in Eurovision. Read More

OTTAWA — The federal budget is where a government explains its most ambitious long-term plans, with high-flown rhetoric and huge dollar figures. Read More

OTTAWA — Nova Scotia MP Chris d'Entremont crossed the floor from the Conservatives to Prime Minister Mark Carney's governing Liberals just hours after the minority government tabled its first budget. Read More

Only three hours into Ottawa’s budget lock-up and I’d already read so much about catalyzing, super-charging, launching, leveraging and empowering that I felt the need of a nap. And I was only 150 pages into the 406-page document. Maybe we should have a rule that the minister of finance has to read the entire budget into the parliamentary record. That would “incentivize” him or her, as they say in Ottawa, to keep it short. Read More