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On the same day that state-level Republicans in Alaska worked to affirm their close relationship with Canada amid U.S. President Donald Trump's trade war and threats of annexation, an Alaskan senator warned British Columbia's premier that "you don't want to mess with Alaska."

The replacements for NASA's two stuck astronauts launched to the International Space Station on Friday night, paving the way for the pair's return after nine long months.

An Indiana woman who crashed her car into a ditch and broke both her legs survived nearly a week by dipping her clothes into a nearby creek and sucking up the water, says her father.

Sean (Diddy) Combs pleaded not guilty on Friday to a new indictment, which added accusations that the hip-hop mogul forced employees to work long hours and threatened to punish those who did not assist in his two-decade sex trafficking scheme.

The defence lawyer for an alleged accomplice of Canadian fugitive Ryan Wedding has cast doubt on the viability of the case against his client after the reported assassination of a key witness. Former trucker Gurpreet Singh appeared for a bail hearing in a downtown Toronto court Friday.

Russia will spare the lives of Ukrainian soldiers in its western Kursk region if Kyiv tells them to surrender, President Vladimir Putin said on Friday after U.S. President Donald Trump urged him to avoid a "horrible massacre" there.

Jessie Holmes, a former reality television star, won the longest-ever Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race on Friday, celebrating with fist pumps to a cheering crowd and posing for photos with his two floral wreath-adorned head teammates, Hercules and Polar.

Hamas said on Friday it had agreed to free an American-Israeli dual national if Israel begins a phase of ceasefire talks towards a permanent end to the war, but Israel dismissed the offer as 'psychological warfare.'

American social media influencer Samantha Jones created an uproar in Australia after posting a now-deleted video to her Instagram account of her grabbing a wild baby wombat from its mother. The wombat is a protected species of marsupial in Australia. Prime Minister Anthony Albanese denounced the act, saying Jones should ‘try some other Australian animals’ instead, like a crocodile.

Eyewitness video from Denver International Airport captured passengers evacuating American Airlines flight AA1006 after the plane caught fire on the tarmac. The flight originating from Colorado Springs Airport was diverted for an emergency landing after its crew reported experiencing vibrations from an engine. After landing and taxiing to a gate, the engine burst into flames. The airport authority said 12 people were transported to hospitals with minor injuries.

Sam Jones, who describes herself as an "outdoor enthusiast and hunter," made her Instagram account private on Thursday after she was widely condemned for the video.

Miami Beach Mayor Steven Meiner has sought to evict an art house cinema from city property for screening Oscar-winning No Other Land, a film about the Israeli displacement of a Palestinian community in the Israeli-occupied West Bank.

Faced with tariffs imposed by U.S. President Donald Trump, some countries have decided, so far, to respond by turning the other cheek, and not retaliate with their own duties.

People are pouring into the streets of the Bangladeshi capital of Dhaka to voice their displeasure at where the country is going, less than a year after a student-led revolution toppled former prime minister Sheikh Hasina.

More than 400 athletes, including more than 20 Canadians, speak up about threat of climate change to both the Winter and Summer Olympic Games.

Columbia University on Thursday said it had doled out a range of punishments to students who occupied a campus building last spring during pro-Palestinian protests.

Hundreds of people have been killed amid armed clashes in Syria, with many of those deaths filmed and published on the internet. CBC’s visual investigations team has verified three of those deaths. The practice of publicizing killings is both shocking and an important tool for researchers, an expert says.

Russia’s president appeared to hedge his bets on the issue of a Ukrainian ceasefire, saying it was a good idea but refusing to implement it, for now. That keeps the dialogue open with Donald Trump, but it means the war continues.

King Charles presented his Canadian personal attendant and messenger with a new ceremonial sword at Buckingham Palace on Wednesday, a symbolic gesture that carries added meaning as the country stares down U.S. President Donald Trump and his increasingly forceful annexationist taunts.