A sightseeing plane crashed Thursday in the area of Misty Fjords National Monument in southeast Alaska, killing all six people on board, the U.S. Coast Guard said.
Some Afghan interpreters who risked their lives to flee the country are considering a dangerous new journey back into Afghanistan in the hopes of qualifying for resettlement in Canada.
Amazon has pushed back its return-to-office date for tech and corporate workers until January 2022 as COVID-19 cases surge nationally due to the delta variant.
Belarusian Olympic sprinter Krystsina Tsimanouskaya, fearing reprisals back home after publicly criticizing her coaches at Tokyo 2020, used her phone to translate a plea for help at an airport in Japan as she tried to avoid being forced onto a plane and eventually fled to Poland.
Do Olympic athletes get any financial compensation for winning a medal? What are they made of? Why are Russian athletes competing but not Russia? And why the name change for synchronized swimming? CBC News provides some answers to those burning questions sparked after weeks of Olympic viewing.
U.S. President Joe Biden will sign an executive order on Thursday aimed at making half of all new vehicles sold in 2030 zero-emissions vehicles and will propose new vehicle emission rules to cut pollution through 2026, the White House said.
Scientists are finalizing a long-awaited UN report updating the scientific consensus on climate change and the increasing risks it poses across the world. Here's what to look for when it comes out on Monday.
Germany and France will go ahead with COVID-19 vaccine boosters from September, disregarding an appeal by the World Health Organization to hold off until more people are vaccinated across the globe.
Tokyo reported 5,042 new daily coronavirus cases on Thursday, hitting a record since the pandemic began as the infections surge in the Japanese capital hosting the Olympics.
A wildfire tore through the northern Sierra Nevada town of Greenville in California, leaving much of the downtown in ashes and crews braced for another explosive run of flames in the midst of dangerous weather.
