Canada urged U.S. President Joe Biden to drop a 'Buy American' provision on autos from his signature budget plan, but it appears he's going ahead with it. The idea is included in the newly released version of his sprawling budget plan.
The World Health Organization and other aid groups on Thursday appealed to leaders of the world's 20 biggest economies to fund a $23.4 billion US plan to bring COVID-19 vaccines, tests and drugs to poorer countries in the next year.
A surge in COVID-19 cases and supply-chain woes hurt the U.S. economy in Q3, but economists forecast growth ahead.
Taiwan's defence minister said Thursday that the island must defend itself and not depend entirely on others for help if China were to launch an attack, even as Taiwan's president said she had faith the U.S. would come to its aid.
The Russian capital brought in its strictest COVID-19-related lockdown measures in more than a year on Thursday as nationwide one-day pandemic deaths and infections hit new highs amid slow vaccination uptake.
Joe Biden has a bad case of the first-year presidential blahs. His polling numbers have suffered a historic slide. In particular, he's lost working-class voters. Can his big budget bill reverse the trend?
When the U.S. military withdrew from Afghanistan this summer, the Afghan interpreters and mission staff who had worked alongside the Canadian Armed Forces were left at the mercy of the Taliban. The Fifth Estate obtained leaked emails that show Canadian cabinet ministers and their staff were warned well before the American pullout that those Afghan nationals needed to be rescued.
Patrik Mathews — a former Manitoba army reservist and an alleged recruiter for a neo-Nazi group — is expected to learn whether he will spend decades in prison at his sentencing Thursday morning in Maryland.
