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Denver is a city overwhelmed with migrants from the southern U.S. border

Denver, a city of 710,000, has taken in more than 40,000 migrants the past year. And although about half of them have since moved on, that'sthe most of any city its size in America. Despite its determination to do all it can for migrants, there are only so many municipal resources to go around, its spokesperson says.

At site of musical festival massacre by Hamas, signs of death and panic are everywhere

The Israel Defence Forces took CBC News to the site of the music festival where 260 people were massacred and others kidnapped in a surprise attack by Hamas militants.

Texas ban on gender-affirming care leaves trans teens without options

As anti-trans sentiment rises in the U.S., a Texas doctor says she no longer feels safe offering gender-affirming care which will soon be banned in the state. Now her patients and other teens like them are worried what will happen when the health care they call lifesaving is made illegal.

At the U.S.-Mexico border, desperate migrants have sights set on Canada

For the migrants lined up at the U.S.-Mexico border, their immediate goal is to find a way into the United States. But a longer term target looms for many: Canada.

1 year later, iconic Churchill photo stolen from Ottawa hotel still eludes police

A little over a year ago, Yousuf Karsh's famed portrait of former British Prime Minister Winston Churchill was stolen from the Chateau Laurier hotel in Ottawa. Police are still stumped as to who did it and where the photo ended up.
Analysis

This Georgia Senate race could swing things in the Republicans' favour

Though Herschel Walker's election campaign has been plagued by controversies that would likely disqualify any other candidate, his name and football heroics are legendary in Georgia. Republicans are counting on that as Walker faces off against Democratic Sen. Raphael Warnock in a race that could tip the balance of power in the U.S. Senate.
CBC Investigates

6 people allege former Mountie sexually assaulted them as teenagers

In the 1980s, Const. Don Cooke was in a position of trust and power in Abbotsford: a minor hockey coach, and an RCMP officer. Multiple people, teenagers at the time, allege he sexually assaulted them, including in his police cruiser allegations Cooke denies. They are speaking publicly for the first time while they fight for compensation.

Black lynching memorial in Tennessee teaches a lesson about the past and the present

The Ed Johnson Project is part of a quiet but determined U.S.-wide effort to remind everyone of the horror of the estimated 4,400 lynchings in this country in the late-19th and early-20th centuries, writes Paul Hunter.

How to cook the perfect cicada

Forget their looks and ignore their beady little red eyes. When it comes to cicadas, those thumb-sized bugs blanketing the eastern United States this spring, it turns out they're actually eminently edible, Paul Hunter writes from Virginia.

COVID-19 has upended the U.S. election campaign and could also change how Americans vote

It may not be the leading worry for most Americans right now, but amid the anxiety over coronavirus, another kind of concern is quietly growing in this country: how to deal with the coming presidential election.