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The 2026 World Cup schedule is displayed on a screen.

Germany, Belgium and Croatia are among the teams that will play games in Canada in group play at next summer's FIFA World Cup. The full schedule of the expanded 48-team, 104-game tournament was announced Saturday in Washington D.C.

Posted: December 6, 2025, 6:38 pm
Family looks on at rubble and a destroyed building following a drone attack on their home

Russia unleashed a major missile and drone barrage on Ukraine overnight into Saturday, after U.S. and Ukrainian officials said they’ll meet on Saturday for a third day of talks aimed at ending the nearly four-year-old war.

Posted: December 6, 2025, 2:31 pm
Police question the occupants of a vehicle.

Frustrated city officials pointed to the case of Jacelynn Guzman, a 23-year-old U.S. citizen who was walking back to her Louisiana home from a trip to the grocery store on Wednesday when a truck pulled up beside her and two masked federal agents approached her, according to security footage obtained by The Associated Press.

Posted: December 6, 2025, 1:45 am
A person stands in a 7-Eleven storefront

7-Eleven is bringing its famous egg salad sandwich to U.S. stores, announcing Wednesday that its Japanese-style tamago sando has landed, complete with "pillowy milk bread and creamy egg salad made with kewpie mayonnaise." But why is it so popular?

Posted: December 6, 2025, 12:02 am
A man in a suit waves to people off screen. Other men in suits follow behind.

The federal government has removed Syria from its list of states that sponsor terrorism, almost a year after the fall of former president Bashar al-Assad's regime.

Posted: December 5, 2025, 10:58 pm
Two women pull a curtain off a cardboard cutout of a magazine cover featuring a screaming woman and the words "Resilience."

The University of Alabama this week announced the immediate and indefinite closure of two student publications it says run afoul anti-diversity measures imposed by the Donald Trump administration.

Posted: December 5, 2025, 10:40 pm
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, left, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, centre, and Russian President Vladimir Putin.

Investments are being made across Europe to shore up its defence capabilities in the face of increased Russian aggression and an uncertain defence alliance with the United States. Andrew Chang explores the steps Europe is taking to deter a possible Russian attack. Images provided by The Canadian Press, Reuters and Getty Images

Posted: December 5, 2025, 9:04 pm
a close up photo of a man's face in side profile with his hand raised in front of him

Toronto-born architect Frank Gehry, whose works included the 2008 redesign of the Art Gallery of Ontario and the Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles, has died. 

Posted: December 5, 2025, 8:00 pm
Demonstrators holds up a banner during a citizenship rally outside of the Supreme Court.

The U.S. Supreme Court agreed on Friday to take up the constitutionality of President Donald Trump's order on birthright citizenship declaring that children born to parents who are in the United States illegally or temporarily are not American citizens.

Posted: December 5, 2025, 7:51 pm
A photo illustration shows the X social media app appearing on a smartphone in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, last month.

Elon Musk's social media company X was fined 120 million euros ($193.3 million Cdn) by EU tech regulators on Friday for breaching online content rules, the first sanction under landmark legislation that once again drew criticism from the U.S. government.

Posted: December 5, 2025, 7:24 pm