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More than a year after Montana Republicans barred Rep. Zooey Zephyr from speaking in the legislature, the transgender lawmaker has been re-elected and is ready to make herself heard again.

A Southern California wildfire has destroyed 132 structures, mostly homes, in less than two days, fire officials said Thursday as raging winds were forecast to ease.

Australian breaker Rachael 'Raygun' Gunn has told a Sydney radio station that she plans to retire from elite competition just three months after her unconventional routine at the Paris Olympics led to her being ridiculed and spawned conspiracy theories about how she qualified for the Games.

During an antagonistic race for the White House, both candidates tried to turn the gender gap among voters to their advantage, with Harris focusing on reproductive freedom as a cornerstone of her campaign and Trump doubling down on a hypermasculine strategy to draw more men to the polls. 

While buzzy social media moments, massive celebrity endorsements and viral memes were everywhere during the U.S. election campaign, those who study social media and pop culture say it's likely that smaller social media interactions had a larger impact on the outcome.

People's signatures can change throughout the course of their lives, typically with little consequence. But it's caused a larger issue for the U.S. election results in Nevada, where nearly 13,000 mail-in ballots are still being held, due to voter signatures not matching those in the state database.

Sibert and Red Cloud, black-footed ferret siblings at the Smithsonian’s National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute, are the first members of an endangered species born to a cloned animal.

Hurricane Rafael pushed into the Gulf of Mexico on Wednesday night after plowing across western Cuba as a Category 3 hurricane with winds so powerful it knocked out the entire country's power grid.

Billionaire Elon Musk could stand to gain after he went all in to help U.S. president-elect Donald Trump make one of the biggest political comebacks in history.

Among the first world leaders to publicly react to Donald Trump's latest electoral victory was Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, who praised his win and applauded what he described as Trump's commitment to achieving "peace through strength." But Ukrainian officials are almost certainly concerned about what a Trump presidency could mean for the country's fight against Russia.

The price of bitcoin hit a new high Wednesday as investors bet that former president Donald Trump's victory in the U.S. presidential election will be a boon for cryptocurrencies.

Delaware state Sen. Sarah McBride has been elected to the U.S. House and will become the first openly transgender person to serve in Congress.

Most of the opposition parties on Parliament Hill are ditching the high-profile annual United Nations conference on climate change this year, citing human rights concerns in the host country Azerbaijan little more than a year after the mass exodus of nearly 120,000 ethnic Armenians from their homes in the once-disputed territory of Nagorno-Karabakh. 

Republicans have taken back control of the U.S. Senate, flipping three seats held by Democrats by early Wednesday. Kentucky Sen. Mitch McConnell called it "a hell of a good day."

Hoax bomb threats, many of which appeared to originate from Russian email domains, were directed on Tuesday at polling locations in five battleground states — Georgia, Michigan, Arizona, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania — as Election Day voting was underway, the FBI said.

Tropical Storm Rafael strengthened into a Category 1 hurricane on Tuesday as it swirled past the Cayman Islands and chugged toward western Cuba.

BCE has signed a deal to buy U.S. fibre internet provider Ziply Fiber for about $5 billion in cash, using in part the profits from the high-profile sale of the company’s stake in Maple Leaf Sports & Entertainment earlier this fall. 

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday dismissed his popular defence minister, Yoav Gallant, in a surprise announcement that came as the country is embroiled in wars on multiple fronts. The move sparked numerous protests, including a mass gathering that paralyzed central Tel Aviv.

Historic rainfall and catastrophic flash flooding in Spain have killed more than 200 people and left thousands more enraged with their country's response to the crisis. Andrew Chang breaks down the devastation left behind in the hard-hit town of Paiporta in Valencia, and how rescuers and volunteers are working around the clock to find survivors and clean up a mountain of debris.

Canadians are watching the U.S. election results with trepidation, knowing they have no control over the outcome that will still affect them. Polling shows Vice-President Kamala Harris and former president Donald Trump are neck-and-neck.