Kathy Hochul became the first female governor of New York at the stroke of midnight Tuesday, taking control of a state government desperate to get back to business after months of distractions over sexual harassment allegations against Andrew Cuomo.
An Amherstburg, Ont., nurse has returned to Canada from Haiti, where she was part of a volunteer team helping people in the earthquake-ravaged Caribbean nation. She says she saw injuries "as bad or worse as we saw" in the 2010 catastrophic quake.
The leader of the Proud Boys extremist group was sentenced to more than five months in jail on Monday for burning a Black Lives Matter banner that was torn down from a historic Black church in downtown Washington and bringing two high-capacity firearm magazines into the U.S. capital days shortly before the Jan. 6 riot.
A U.S. government watchdog found multiple problems with the construction, manufacture and design of the Keystone XL pipeline, validating President Joe Biden's decision to revoke its permit, leaders of several House Democratic committees said on Monday.
An officer who shot and killed a woman during the Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol acted lawfully and in line with police department policy, the U.S. Capitol Police said Monday.
The slow and sprawling storm system named Henri drenched much of the inland northeast with rain Monday, hampering cleanup efforts and threatening further flooding in areas with ground already saturated from a wet summer.
Bayern Munich and Canada soccer star Alphonso Davies, a goodwill ambassador for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, shared words of encouragement with the six members of the Refugee Paralympic Team on Monday ahead of the 2020 Tokyo Paralympics.
The federal government has confirmed for the first time that Canada's special forces are operating outside the security cordon of the airport in Afghanistan's capital, working to shepherd people from Kabul into the airport.
The head of the World Health Organization has called for a two-month moratorium on administering booster shots of COVID-19 vaccines as a means of reducing global vaccine inequality and preventing the emergence of new coronavirus variants.
Millions of people in Syria and Iraq are at risk of losing access to water, electricity and food amid rising temperatures, record low water levels due to lack of rainfall and drought, international aid groups warned Monday.
Andrew Cuomo neared the end of his decade as New York's governor Monday, as he prepares to relinquish his grip on government to Lt. Gov. Kathy Hochul in a midnight power transfer that will break another glass ceiling for women in state politics.
Greece's fire department scrambled firefighting aircraft and ground forces as at least two new blazes broke out in areas already scarred by wildfires this summer, with strong winds complicating efforts to contain them.
A firefight at one of the gates of Kabul's international airport killed at least one Afghan security officer early Monday, German officials said, the latest chaos to engulf Western efforts to evacuate those fleeing the Taliban takeover of the country.
