The Taliban captured a police headquarters Thursday in a provincial capital in southern Afghanistan teetering toward being lost to the insurgents as suspected U.S. airstrikes pounded the area, an official said.

Two U.S. officials told Reuters that the U.S. State Department was expected to announce that a significant number of employees from the U.S. Embassy in Kabul would be relocated as the Taliban press their advance.

The National for Wednesday, Aug. 11 — The Crown lays out a case for Meng Wanzhou’s extradition as the fate of imprisoned Canadians hang in the balance. Plus, Ottawa’s plan for vaccine passports.

The good news is that scientists have a better handle on asteroid Bennu's whereabouts for the next 200 years. The bad news is that the space rock has a slightly greater chance of clobbering Earth than previously thought.

A study from Toronto's University Health Network suggests a third dose of COVID-19 vaccine boosts immunity in transplant recipients.

A lawyer for Canada's attorney general says Meng Wanzhou's "dishonesty" lies at the heart of the fraud allegations that resulted in a request for the Huawei executive's extradition to the United States.

The screams of a man in terrible pain echoed through an Edmonton courtroom Wednesday as a Crown prosecutor played a bystander’s cellphone video of the violent arrest of Indigenous man Elliot McLeod.

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is urging all pregnant women to get the COVID-19 vaccine as infections rise in hotspots.

There has been another attack by a coyote in Vancouver's iconic Stanley Park, despite several of the animals being euthanized after a string of previous incidents.

Executive producer Mike Richards will replace Alex Trebek this fall, while actor Mayim Bialik gets a spinoff show.