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A man wears a black hat and black jacket near a television panel with a mans face on it outside.

Memorial services for the late civil rights activist Rev. Jesse Jackson began in Chicago on Thursday, with stops in Washington and South Carolina to follow over the next two weeks.

Posted: February 26, 2026, 6:16 pm
Minister of Public Safety Gary Anandasangaree speaks before a panel discussion on digital lawful access with the National Police Federation in Ottawa on Thursday, Feb. 26, 2026.

Public Safety Minister Gary Anandasangaree says there's still a lot of work to do on the India security file — a day after a senior government official said Ottawa no longer believes the country is linked to foreign interference and transnational repression.

Posted: February 26, 2026, 6:03 pm
A brown-skinned man with a thin mustache is shown, wearing a cap on his head.

A nearly blind refugee from Myanmar missing since his release from a Buffalo jail into the custody of U.S. Border Patrol has been found dead on a downtown street, city authorities have said.

Posted: February 26, 2026, 3:55 pm
Three men are shown facing the camera while seated at a large circular table with glassware. The men are wearing suit jackets.

Iran and the United States held hours of indirect negotiations Thursday over Tehran's nuclear program but walked away without a deal, leaving the danger of another Middle East war on the table as the U.S. has gathered a massive fleet of aircraft and warships in the region.

Posted: February 26, 2026, 11:22 am
police at crime scene

A deadly shooting during a youth hockey game in Rhode Island last week has claimed a third victim, a grandfather whose daughter and grandson were also killed in the attack, authorities said Wednesday.

Posted: February 26, 2026, 9:53 am
A man and a women in business attire shake hands by a table. Two men applaud in the background. South Korean and Canadian flags are drapped in the background.

Canada and South Korea have signed a new defence agreement, roughly a month after Prime Minister Mark Carney urged middle powers to band together in the face of "great power" economic coercion.

Posted: February 26, 2026, 12:55 am
U.S. President Donald Trump delivers the State of the Union address during a joint session of Congress in Washington.

In Donald Trump's 2026 state of the union address — which broke the record for the longest such speech — he spoke about everything from lauding the men's Olympic hockey team to repeatedly chastizing Democrats for not standing up to applaud his comments. Andrew Chang breaks down the choreography of the address to explain the strategy behind the words. Images provided by The Canadian Press, Reuters and Getty Images

Posted: February 26, 2026, 12:53 am
Men in sweaters that say U.S.A. hold up gold medals in a gallery

A video that appears to show U.S. President Donald Trump joking with the men's hockey team after their win, saying he'd "have to" invite the women's team to the White House, too, has a lot of fans seething.

Posted: February 25, 2026, 11:34 pm
A man in a suit, sitting at a courtroom table, looks at the camera

Harvey Weinstein has hired Luigi Mangione and Sean "Diddy" Combs's lawyers to represent him at his third New York rape trial, reshaping his legal team after declining to end the matter with a guilty plea. The lawyers, Jacob Kaplan, Marc Agnifilo and Teny Geragos, take over for Weinstein's longtime lawyer, Arthur Aidala, who ceded his courtroom role to focus on the ex-studio boss' appeals and pending civil matters.

Posted: February 25, 2026, 10:58 pm
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Democratic lawmakers on the House oversight and government reform committee promised on Tuesday to investigate allegations that the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) withheld material about an accusation against U.S. President Donald Trump from the Epstein files.

Posted: February 25, 2026, 10:40 pm